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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 4. Though no actual knowledge be so immediate as to be without the Mediation of the sense 1and fantasy, yet supposing these, Knowledge is distinguished into Immediate and Mediate. The Immediate is when the Being, Quality, &c. of a thing, or the Truth of a proposition is known immediately in it self by its proper evidence. Mediate knowledge is when the Being of a thing, or the truth of a proposition is known by the means of some other intervenient thing or proposition, whose evidence affordeth us a light to discern it.
§. 4. Though no actual knowledge be so immediate as to be without the Mediation of the sense 1and fantasie, yet supposing these, Knowledge is distinguished into Immediate and Mediate. The Immediate is when the Being, Quality, &c. of a thing, or the Truth of a proposition is known immediately in it self by its proper evidence. Mediate knowledge is when the Being of a thing, or the truth of a proposition is known by the means of some other intervenient thing or proposition, whose evidence affordeth us a light to discern it.
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The understanding is much more satisfied when it can see Things and Truths immediately in their proper evidence. But when it cannot, it is glad of any means to help it.