Notes on English Divines
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES ON ENGLISH DIVINES. NOTES ON HOOKER LIFE OF HOOKER BY WALTON. Page 67. Mr. Travers excepted against Mr. Hooker, for that in one of his sermons he declared, ' That the assurance of what we believe by the word of God, is not to us so certain as that which we perceive by sense.' And Mr. Hooker confesseth he said so, and endeavours to justify it by the reasons following. There is, I confess, a shade of doubt on my mind as to this position of Hooker's. Yet I do not deny that it expresses a truth. The question in my mind is, only, whether it adequately expresses the whole truth. The ground of my doubt lies iu my inability to compare two things that differ in kind. It is impossible that any conviction of the reason, even where no act of the will advenes as a co-efficient, should possess the vividness of an 1 immediate object of the senses; for the vividness is given by sensation. Equally impossible is it that any truth of the super-sensuous reason should possess The references are to Mr. Keble's edition (1836.)?Ed. VOL. I. B the evidence of the pure sense. Even the mathematician does not find the same evidence in the results of transcendental algebra as in the demonstrations of simple geometry. But has he less assurance? In answer to Hooker's argument I say, ?that God refers to our sensible experience to aid our will by the vividness of sensible impressions, and also to aid our understanding of the truths revealed, ?not to increase the conviction of their certainty where they have been understood. WALTON'S APPENDIX. //.;./. p. lie. It is a strange blind story this of the last three books, and of Hooker's live relict, the Beast without Beauty. But Saravia If honest Isaac's account of the tender, confidential, even confessional, friendship of Hooker and Sa..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217736879 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217736874 |
| Weight | 0.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.16 In |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 66 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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