The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.

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Title: The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.
Author: Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring :; 1656.
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Subject terms: Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.; Philosophy -- History.
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IV.

The properties of Celestiall Love are in this Stanza discovered.

[—in new fetters caught—]

The Soul being opprest by the Body, her desire of Intellectuall Beauty sleeps; but, awakened by Love, is by the sensible Beauty of the body, led at last to their Fountain, God.

[—which glow Dying, yet glowing greater grow.]

Motion and Operation are the signes of life, their privation of death: in him who applies himselfe to the Intellectuall part, the rationall and the sensitive fail; by the Rationall he is Man, by the Intellectuall communicates with Angels: As Man he dies, re∣viv'd an Angell. Thus the Heart dies in the flames of Intellectu∣all Love; yet, consumes not, but by this death growes greater, re∣ceives a new and more sublime life. See in Plato the Fables of Al∣cestes and Orpheus.