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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XXVII.

Again, this second Person is said to be the Wisdom of his Father, to be the Character of his Person, both which expressions denote him to be the same with this Ideal World. And by him God is said to have made the Worlds:* 1.1 that is according to the eternal Exemplars or Plat∣forms in this Ideal World. To which I may add by way of over∣plus, that noble Description of the Eternal and Substantial Wisdom given us in the 7. Chap. of the Book of Wisdom. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. The Breath (or Vapour) of the Power of God, and an Efflux (or Emanation) from the glory of the Al∣mighty, a clear Mirrour (or Look∣ing-glass) of his active Energory ver∣tue, and the Image of his goodness. And what can all this be but the

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Essence of God as Exhibitive, the Ideal World? Lastly, I would have it considered how what our Savi∣our says of himself, I am the Truth, and what the Apostles says of him, that he is the Wisdom of his Fa∣ther, can be verifi'd any other way but by this Hypothesis.

Notes

* 1.1

Heb. 1.

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