Reason and religion, or, The grounds and measures of devotion, consider'd from the nature of God, and the nature of man in several contemplations : with exercises of devotion applied to every contemplation / by John Norris ...

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Title: Reason and religion, or, The grounds and measures of devotion, consider'd from the nature of God, and the nature of man in several contemplations : with exercises of devotion applied to every contemplation / by John Norris ...
Author: Norris, John, 1657-1711.
Publication: London :: Printed for Samuel Manship ...,; 1689.
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Subject terms: Man (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.; Devotion.
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XXV.

Thus is this Notion of the Ideal World, or of the Essence of God, being variously exhibitive and re∣presentative of the Essences of things, made use of by this great Theorist, to explain both the Nature of the Second Person of the Trinity, and the Mode of his Eternal Genera∣tion. And I think it does both much better than any other, and indeed as far as conceivable by hu∣man understanding. So highly use∣ful is this Doctrine of Idea's, when rightly understood, to unsold the profoundest Mysteries of the Chri∣stian Religion as well as of Philoso∣phy: And so great reason had St. Au∣stin to say,* 1.1 Tanta vis in Ideis con∣stituitur, ut nisi his intellectis, sapi∣ens esse nemo possit. There's so much moment in Idea's, that without the understanding of these, no Man can be Wise.

Notes

* 1.1

Tom. 4. p. 548. Q. 46.

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