The procedure, extent, and limits of human understanding / [Anon].

  • Browne, Peter, approximately 1666-1735.
Date:
1729
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Credit: The procedure, extent, and limits of human understanding / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mighty Power (for we might as well fuppofe God, after the Fall, to have firft reduced Man to Nothing, and then to have made him over again a New Creature in a Literal Sence) But by Information or Revelation from Without) of fuch Inftances of Knowledge as were neceifary to enable us to become New Creatures in a truly Evangelical Sence; and which it was impoffible for us to attain by any Inward Light or Strength of Reafon. And accordingly this Divine In¬ formation was begun in the firft Promiie oi the Seed of the Woman which was to Break the Serpent's Head; and this was continualy En¬ larged zxA clear’d up farther in fucceeding Ages by New Revelations, as the Gradual Corrup¬ tion and Exigencies of Mankind required* Thus our Understanding is affifted, and in- lightned with the Knowledge of things Super¬ natural and Spiritual; after the lame Manner it is with that of things ^Temporal and Human,, The Knowledge and Experience of Other Men convey'd to us by Information, makes up the greateft Part of our Secular Knowledge ; which we do not take up Implicitly) but render it properly Our own by the Exercife of our Rea- fon) in judging and determining upon the Cre¬ dibility of every thing we give our Alfent to upon the Teftimony of others. And we have the fame Full and Free Ufe of our Reafon, in judging and determining concerning the Cre¬ dibility of eyery thing which comes to us by H h 4 Divine