A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

It hath therefore its rise from our selves, and the penury of our knowledge of things. And is at once both an ingenuous confession, with some sort of modest cover, and excuse of our own ignorance. As with Geographers, all that part of this Globe, which they cannot describe, is Terra incognita; and with Philosophers, such Phenomena, in nature, as they can give no account of, they resolve, shortly and in the most compendious way, into some or other occult quality, or somewhat else, as occult.

It hath therefore its rise from our selves, and the penury of our knowledge of things. And is at once both an ingenuous confession, with some sort of modest cover, and excuse of our own ignorance. As with Geographers, all that part of this Globe, which they cannot describe, is Terra incognita; and with Philosophers, such Phaenomena, in nature, as they can give no account of, they resolve, shortly and in the most compendious way, into some or other occult quality, or somewhat else, as occult.

How happy were it, if in all matters that concern Religion, and in this, as it doth so, they would shut up in a sacred venerable Darkness, what they cannot distinctly perceive, it being once by the undeceiving Word expressly asserted, that it is, without, therefore, ⟨p. 18⟩denying its reality, because they clearly apprehend not what it is.

How happy were it, if in all matters that concern Religion, and in this, as it doth so, they would shut up in a sacred venerable Darkness, what they cannot distinctly perceive, it being once by the undeceiving Word expresly asserted, that it is, without, therefore, ⟨p. 18⟩denying its reality, because they clearly apprehend not what it is.