Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              leſs condemned upon the teſtimony of Texts of Scripture, which
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              may, under their words, couch Senſes ſeemingly contrary there­
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              to; In regard that every Expreſſion of Scripture is not tied to
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              ſo ſtrict conditions, as every Effect of Nature: Nor doth God
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              leſs admirably diſcover himſelf unto us in Nature's Actions, than
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              in the Scriptures Sacred Dictions. </s>
              <s>Which peradventure
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              Tertul-
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              lian
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              intended to expreſs in thoſe words
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              : (c) We conclude, God
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              is known; firſt, by Nature, and then again more particularly
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              known by Doctrine: by Nature, in his Works; by Doctrine, in his
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              Word preached.
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              Nos definimus,
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              Deum, primò N.­
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              tura cognoſcen­
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              dum; Deinde, Do­
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              ctrina recognoſcen­
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              dum: Natura ex
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              operibus; Doctri­
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              na ex pr ædicatio­
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              nibus.
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              <s>But I will not hence affirm, but that we ought to have an ex­
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              traordinary eſteem for the Places of Sacred Scripture, nay, being
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              come to a certainty in any Natural Concluſions, we ought
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              to make uſe of them, as moſt appoſite helps to the true Expo­
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              ſition of the ſame Scriptures, and to the inveſtigation of thoſe
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              Senſes which are neceſſarily conteined in them, as moſt true, and
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              concordant with the Truths demonſtrated.</s>
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              Tertul. </s>
              <s>adver.
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              <s>Marcion. </s>
              <s>lib. 1.
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              cap. 18.</s>
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              <s>This maketh me to ſuppoſe, that the Authority of the Sacred
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              Volumes was intended principally to perſwade men to the be­
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              lief of thoſe Articles and Propoſitions, which, by reaſon they
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              ſurpaſs all humane diſcourſe, could not by any other Science, or
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              by any other means be made credible, than by the Mouth of
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              the Holy Spirit it ſelf. </s>
              <s>Beſides that, even in thoſe Propoſitions,
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              which are not
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              de Fide,
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              the Authority of the ſame Sacred Leaves
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              ought to be preferred to the Authority of all Humane Sciences
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              that are not written in a Demonſtrative Method, but either with
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              bare Narrations, or elſe with probable Reaſons; and this I hold
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              to be ſo far convenient and neceſſary, by how far the ſaid Di­
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              vine Wiſdome ſurpaſſeth all humane Judgment and Conjecture.
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              <s>But that that ſelf ſame God who hath indued us with Senſes,
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              Diſcourſe, and Underſtanding hath intended, laying aſide the
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              uſe of theſe, to give the knowledg of thoſe things by other means,
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              which we may attain by theſe, ſo as that even in thoſe Natural
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              Concluſions, which either by Senſible Experiments or Neceſſary
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              Demonſtrations are ſet before our eyes, or our Underſtanding, we
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              ought to deny Senſe and Reaſon, I do not conceive that I am
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              bound to believe it; and eſpecially in thoſe Sciences, of which
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              but a ſmall part, and that divided into Concluſions is to be
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              found in the Scripture: Such as, for inſtance, is that of
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              Aſtro­
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              nomy,
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              of which there is ſo ſmall a part in Holy Writ, that it doth
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              not ſo much as name any of the Planets, except the Sun and the
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              Moon, and once or twice onely
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              Venus
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              under the name of
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              Luci­
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              fer.
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              For if the Holy Writers had had any intention to perſwade
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              People to believe the Diſpoſitions and Motions of the Cœleſtial
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              Bodies; and that conſequently we are ſtill to derive that know­</s>
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