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More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second…
More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second appendix to the Reasons of the Christian religion being I. an answer to a letter from an unknown person charging the Holy Scriptures with contradictions, II. some animadversions on a tractate De Veritate, written by ... Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1672
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Sixthly, The Essences of all things are but imperfectly evident to us; The existences of corporeal things that are present and duly qualified, are fully evident. The existence of things absent beyond the reach of sense, is evident only to the discursive intellect; not by the immediate natural evidence of the things themselves, but by a borrowed evidence from Causes or Signs; Discourse improving the Fundamental common truths, for the knowing of the rest, by proving a certain connection between them. The Praterition of things, and the Futurition, are both like the distant existence, unknown to sense, and the immediate apprehension of the intellect; And therefore must both be known also by collection as conclusions in discourse, or not at all.
Sixthly, The Essences of all things are but imperfectly evident to us; The existences of corporeal things that are present and duly qualified, are fully evident. The existence of things absent beyond the reach of sense, is evident only to the discursive intellect; not by the immediate natural evidence of the things themselves, but by a borrowed evidence from Causes or Signes; Discourse improving the Fundamental common truths, for the knowing of the rest, by proving a certain connexion between them. The Praterition of things, and the Futurition, are both like the distant existence, unknown to sense, and the immediate apprehension of the intellect; And therefore must both be known also by collection as conclusions in discourse, or not at all.
Seventhly, Man was not born to know only things present in their existence by sense, but also to know things absent, things as past, and things as future. And herein he chiefly differeth from a Brute.
Seventhly, Man was not born to know only things present in their existence by sense, but also to know things absent, things as past, and things as future. And herein he chiesly differeth from a Bruit.