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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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.
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London :: Printed for Samuel Manship ...,
1689.
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Man (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.
Devotion.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2025.
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From all which, he concludes, that God is the Intelligible World, or the Place of Spirits, as the Material World is the place of Bodies. That these Spirits receive their Modifica∣tions, or Sensations, from his Power, and find their Idea's in his Wisdom, and by his Love are moved by all orderly motions; and that in God we have our Life, our Motion, and our Being. According to that of St. Paul,* 1.1He is not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being.