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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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. Yet nothing invisible is so clearly and certainly intelligible and certain to mans mind, as God, as to the […] sit, that he is, and to much of the Quid sit, what he is; though imperfectly apprehended; and though nothing be so incomprehensible; even as no visible thing is more visible than the Sun, and its being and part of its […] furthest from uncertainty; and yet hath in it most unknown.
4. Yet nothing invisible is so clearly and certainly intelligible and certain to mans mind, as God, as to the 〈…〉 sit, that he is, and to much of the Quid sit, what he is; though imperfectly apprehended; and though nothing be so incomprehensible; even as no visible thing is more visible than the Sun, and its being and part of its 〈…〉 furthest from uncertainty; and yet hath in it most unknown.
5. The Notions we have of God, though Borrowed and Analogical, are not useless nor fallacious, but imperfect and such as lead to perfect knowledge: And he that will not use these, must use none.
6. We have no immediate knowledge of any higher nobler essence than our own souls, from which to borrow our Notions of God: still separating all that signifieth imperfection and acknowledging their defectiveness.