The procedure, extent, and limits of human understanding / [Anon].
- Browne, Peter, approximately 1666-1735.
- Date:
- 1729
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The procedure, extent, and limits of human understanding / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![accordingly fo readily approved of and afiented to by unprejudiced Reaibn. And that this Law is no otherwife the Caufe and Occafion of Sin and Death to us, than as it is direftly Con¬ trary to the Law we find in our Members; and as it is enafted againft all thofe Inclinations and Tendencies of the flefii and carnal Mind which we Our felves (that is, the Spiritual and purely intellectual Part of us) judge and pro¬ nounce to be finful and wicked. I know the Spirit here, and in other pa¬ rallel Places, is ufualy expounded of the Mo¬ tions of the Holy Spirit within us* which is lb far true, but is not Jll the Truth; for it lignifies the wvjjuct or Spirit of a Man excited and alfifted by the Spirit of God: Which Ac¬ ceptation of it is unavoidable in fome Places ; and renders others eafy and intelligible; and without including this Spirit of a Man, it will be very difficult to find out the Scope and Co¬ herence of thofe P adages where it is mentioned. Befides that the Sence and Context of -thole Places require this, it is Natural to underftand it of Both] becaule inward Grace, or the In¬ fluences of the Holy Spirit, are immediately applied to the Ipiritual immaterial Part of us, to prepare and ftrengthen it for a Combat with the Flefh and inferior Soul; and enable it to recover that original Purity and Holi- nefs which is innate to it, and in which it was firft created. This](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30507479_0378.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
