A30247:1428
A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is
A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess.
London : s.n., 1658
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.
SECT. II.
What we mean by Memory.
Two things must be premised before we enter into the main matter:
TWo things must be premised before we enter into the main matter:
First, What we mean by the memory. Aristotle wrote a little Book about Memory and Remembrance (De Memoriâ & Reminiscentiâ) and from him many have taken up large and useless Disputes herein. It is not my purpose to teach you with these thorns, it is enough that there is acknowledged a sensitive memory, which is common to men with beasts, and an intellective, though that be questioned, but against all reason, for the soul separated doth remember, as appeareth in that Parable, where Abraham said to Dives, Son, remember thou hast received the good things of this life, Luk. 16. 25. Angels also must necessarily remember, because all things are not present to them, therefore past things they cannot know, but by way of memory: God is said in the Scripture often to remember, but that cannot be properly, because to him all things past and future are as present, so that he cannot be said to remember properly, no more then to fore-know only such expressions are used by condescension to our capacity. Aristotle distinguisheth between Memory and Remembrance, [Greek or Hebrew], and this (he saith, as far as is yet observed) no creature can do but man. When therefore I shall speak of the Memory, I shall understand it as it is Remembrance, and as it is Intellectual; for in man we may say his memory is in a great part the understanding, knowing things as they are past. Therefore Austin, and the Master of Sentences following him (though this be disclaimed by many that came after) make three powers or faculties in the rational part of a man, his Understanding, his will and Memory, which they call the created Trinity, and by it, (they say) is resembled the blessed and increated Trinity; But I shall not dispute this, for I shall speak of Memory as the same with the understanding only in this particular, as it is carried out to things that are past, for that is the necessary object of Memory, that it must be past, we do not remember a thing present, or a thing future.