Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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wards in coming to engage, preſently betake themſelves to a Wea
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pon inevitable & dreadful to terrifie their Opponent with the ſole
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the firſt that are affrighted, and that perceiving themſelves unable
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to bear up againſt the aſſaults of their Adverſary, go about to find
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out ways how to keep them far enough off, forbidding unto them
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the uſe of the Reaſon which the Divine Bounty had vouchſafed
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them, & abuſing the moſt equitable Authority of ſacred Scripture,
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which rightly underſtood and applyed, can never, according to
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the common Maxime of Divines, oppoſe the Manifeſt Experi
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ments, or Neceſſary Demonſtrations. </
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to the Scriptures for a Cloak to their inability to comprehend,
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not to ſay reſolve the Reaſons alledged againſt them, ought (if I
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be not miſtaken) to ſtand them in no ſtead: the Opinion which
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they oppoſe having never as yet been condemned by Holy
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ſhould either by ſilence confeſs themſelves unable to handle ſuch
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like points, or firſt conſider that it is not in the power of them or
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others, but onely in that of the Pope, and of Sacred Councils to
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cenſure a Poſition to be Erroneous: But that it is left to their
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freedome to diſpute concerning its falſity. </
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knowing that it is impoſſible that a Propoſition ſhould at the
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ſame time be True and Heretical; they ought, I ſay, to imploy
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themſelves in that work which is moſt poper to them, namely,
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in demonſtrating the falſity thereof: whereby they may ſee
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how needleſſe the prohibiting of it is, its falſhood being once
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diſcovered, for that none would follow it: or the Prohibition
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would be ſafe, and without all danger of Scandal. </
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firſt let theſe men apply themſelves to examine the Arguments
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and others; and leave the condemning of them
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for Erroneous and Heretical to whom it belongeth: But yet let
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them not hope ever to finde ſuch raſh and precipitous Determina
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tions in the Wary and Holy Fathers, or in the abſolute Wiſ
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dome of him that cannot erre, as thoſe into which they ſuffer
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themſelves to be hurried by ſome particular Affection or Inte
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reſt of their own. </
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not directly
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de Fide,
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certainly no man doubts but His Holineſs
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hath alwayes an abſolute power of Admitting or Condemn
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ing them, but it is not in the power of any Creature to make
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them to be true or falſe, otherwiſe than of their own nature,
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de facto
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If this paſſage
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firſt of the neceſſary and immutable Truth of the Fact, (over
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which none hath power) than without that certainty by condem
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ning one part to deprive ones ſelf of that authority of freedome </
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