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The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…
The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and proved together with several other sermons / occasionally preached and now published by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston, New-England.
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
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.
1. Concerning Knowledge in general, we may observe, that the proper and suitable object ⟨p. 76⟩of the understanding is Truth, in the search and contemplation whereof it is employed, and when it is so employed, it is about its own work, and Truth being a property or affection of every being that is.
1. Concerning Knowledge in general, we may observe, that the proper and suitable object ⟨p. 76⟩of the understanding is Truth, in the search and contemplation whereof it is imployed, and when it is so imployed, it is about its own work, and Truth being a property or affection of every being that is.
Hence,
The understanding applies it self to the searing of Truth in the things that be: Now these truths are either, simple and single, such as are the several affections, inclinations, and tendencies in things, which the understanding finds out and lays by themselves, and whereby it is furnished for further discoveries: Or▪ else they are compound; when the understanding, discovering a subject, and having found out those simple truths which concern it (or supposing it self so to have done) it puts them together, and makes an Axiom, sentence, assertion, or negation about them. Now there are various postures in which the understanding may stand to the things; and various affections in which the things may stand related one to another. I intend not the distinct producing of all that here might be said on this account, but only so far as is to our present purpose.