Peripateticall institutions. In the way of that eminent person and excellent philosopher Sr. Kenelm Digby. The theoricall part. Also a theologicall appendix of the beginning of the world. / By Thomas White Gent.
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- Peripateticall institutions. In the way of that eminent person and excellent philosopher Sr. Kenelm Digby. The theoricall part. Also a theologicall appendix of the beginning of the world. / By Thomas White Gent.
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- White, Thomas, 1593-1676.
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- London, :: Printed by R.D. and are to be sold by John Williams at the sign of the Crown in S. Paul's Church-yard.,
- M.DC.LVI. [1656]
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- Digby, Kenelm, -- Sir, 1603-1665.
- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
- Physics -- Early works to 1800.
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"Peripateticall institutions. In the way of that eminent person and excellent philosopher Sr. Kenelm Digby. The theoricall part. Also a theologicall appendix of the beginning of the world. / By Thomas White Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96369.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.
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To the READER.
SInce Philosophy has then attain'd its Dignity, when, apply'd to A∣ction, it renders Man better, that is, more Man; and Christi∣ans are initiated to this by Divinity: this, evi∣dently, is the highest pitch of Philosophy, to wait on and be subservient to the Traditions deriv'd from God. Wherefore, I saw it abso∣lutely necessary, to fortify the Institutions, I would recommend to Thee, with a subsignation of Theology. Nor was I long to seek whe∣ther I should first addresse my self: For, when, after the Notions of Nature digested in com∣mon, I had expos'd the same in a Collection of the World, as it were, in an Example; by the same rule, having exhibited the Action of Things, like a sceleton, in its Principles, in the last Book of Metaphysick, I saw my self oblig'd to vest It, in the CREATION, with the Nature due to It. And, since in the
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ancient Theology, we had this accurately de∣cyphered, beyond the Attempts of Philoso∣phers; but untraceable, because the Paths of Nature were unknown: It seem'd to me, a more expresse Seal of Theologicall Approbati∣on could not be desir'd, then that the Instituti∣ons should carrie a Torch before the Mysteries of Genesis; and, from those so discover'd, re∣ceive themselves, with advantage; the Glory and Splendor of Authority. What more? I essay'd: thou seest the Issue; which I wish may benefit Thee.