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Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences…
Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences from it, and the great advantages of it. : Upon a special and mournful occasion. : [Seven lines of quotations]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Gerrish, 1727
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.
LITTLE do People know the Times that are hereafter to pass over them : Little do we know what Changes are to come, and when they are to come upon us.
CONTINGENCIES are Things which we cannot have a certain knowledge of. Tis at best, but an Opinion, tis at best but a Conjecture, that we can have of them. Now, with respect unto us, what are all Futurities, but Contingencies.
MY DOCTRINE is a String which the Quill of Solomon did very much harp upon. And most certainly the Wisdom of a Solomon could not be expressed without Strong Impressions from such a Meditation. Tis bewailed by Solomon as the Misery of Man, Eccl. VIII. 7. He knoweth not that which shall be; For who can tell him when it shall be! Oh! may we have the Wisdom to make our Advantage of this Misery; since we do know what we have to do, that we may be prepared for that which shall be.
MY DOCTRINE is a String which the Quill of Solomon did very much harp upon. And most certainly the Wisdom of a Solomon could not be express'd without Strong Impressions from such a Meditation. Tis bewailed by Solomon as the Misery of Man, Eccl. VIII. 7. He knoweth not that which shall be; For who can tell him when it shall be! Oh! may we have the Wisdom to make our Advantage of this Misery; since we do know what we have to do, that we may be prepared for that which shall be.