Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, An epistle to fantoni, 1661

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              Sorrow, Repentance, and the like. </s>
              <s>What ſhall we ſay there­
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              fore? </s>
              <s>Without doubt ſuch like Attributes agree with God (to
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              uſe the Schoolmens words
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              Metaphorically, Proportionally, and by
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              Similitude
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              : And touching Paſſions, it may be ſaid, that God
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              condeſcendeth to repreſent himſelf after that manner: as for
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              inſtance,
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              The Lord is angry
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              ; i.e.
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              He revealeth himſelf as one that
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              is angry: He grieved
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              ; i. </s>
              <s>e.
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              He revealeth himſelf, as one that
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              is ſorrowful: It repented him that he had made man
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              ; i.e.
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              He ſee­
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              med as one that repented.
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              And indeed all theſe things are
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              Com­
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              parativè ad nos,
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              and in reſpect of us. </s>
              <s>So God is ſaid to be in
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              Heaven, to move in time, to ſhew himſelf, to hide himſelf, to
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              obſerve and mark our ſteps; to ſeek us, to ſtand at the door,
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              to knock at the door; not that he can be contained in a bodily
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              place, nor that he is really moved, nor in time; nor that humane
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              manners or cuſtomes can agree with him, ſave only according to
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              our manner of Apprehenſion: This Conception of ours orderly
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              diſtinguiſheth theſe Attributes in him one from another, when,
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              notwithſtanding, they are one and the ſame with him: This Ap­
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              prehenſion of ours divideth alſo his actions into ſeveral times,
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              which, nevertheleſſe, for the moſt part, are produced in one and
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              the ſame inſtant: And this, to conclude, alwayes apprehendeth
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              thoſe things with ſome defect, which, notwithſtanding are in
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              God moſt perfect. </s>
              <s>For this reaſon doth the Sacred Scripture
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              expreſs it ſelf
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              according to the Vulgar Opinion,
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              whilſt it aſcribes
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              to the Earth Ends and Foundations, which yet it hath not; to
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              the Sea a Depth not to be fathomed; to Death (which is a Pri­
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              vation, and conſequently a Non entity) it appropriates Actions,
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              Motion, Paſſions, and other ſuch like Accidents, of all which it is
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              deprived, as alſo Epithites and Adjuncts, which really cannot
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              ſuit with it:
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              Is not the bitterneſſe of Death paſt
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              ? </s>
              <s>1 Sam. </s>
              <s>15. 32.
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              Let death come upon them,
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              Pſal 6.
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              He hath prepared the Inſtru­
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              ments of Death,
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              Pſal. </s>
              <s>7. 14.
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              Thou raiſeſt me from the gates of
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              Death,
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              Pſal. </s>
              <s>84.
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              In the midſt of the ſhadow of Death,
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              Pſal. </s>
              <s>23.
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              Love is ſtrong as Death,
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              Cant. </s>
              <s>8. 9.
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              The Firſt-Born of Death,
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              Job
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              18. 13.
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              Deſtruction and Death ſay, &c.
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              Job 28. 22. And who knows
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              not that the whole Hiſtory of the rich Glutton doth conſiſt of
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              the like phraſes of
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              Vulgar Speech
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              ? </s>
              <s>So
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              Eccleſiaſticus,
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              Chap. </s>
              <s>27.
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              verſ. </s>
              <s>11.
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              The godly man abideth in wiſdome, as the Sun; but a
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              fool changeth as the Moon
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              ; and yet the Moon according to the
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              real truth of the matter no wayes changeth, but abides the ſame
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              for ever, as
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              Aſtronomers
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              demonſtrate, one half thereof remain­
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              ing alwayes lucid, and the other alwayes opacous. </s>
              <s>Nor at any
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              time doth this ſtate vary in it, unleſſe
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              in reſpect of us,
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              and
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              ac­
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              cording to the opinion of the Vulgar.
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              Hence it is cleer, that the
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              holy Scripture ſpeaks according to the common form of ſpeech </s>
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