Of the Natural Knowledge of GOD and Heaven.
pp. 9–1325 passages
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CHAP. III. Of the Natural Knowledge of GOD and Heaven.
Qu. 1. You have told me how we know the things which we see and feel, without us and within us: But how can we know any things which we neither see nor feel, but are quite above us?
Qu. 1. YOu have told me how we know the things which we see and feel, without us and within us: But how can we know any things which we neither see nor feel, but are quite above us?
A. By certain Effects and Signs which notify them: How little else did man differ from a Beast; ⟨p. 10⟩if he knew no more than he seeth and feeleth? Besides what we know from others that have seen; you see not now that the Sun will rise to morrow, or that Man must die: you see not Italy, Spain, France; You see no mans Soul: And yet we certainly know that such things are and will be.
A. By certain Effects and Signs which notifie them: How little else did man differ from a Beast; ⟨p. 10⟩if he knew no more than he seeth and feeleth? Besides what we know from others that have seen; you see not now that the Sun will rise to morrow, or that Man must die: you see not Italy, Spain, France; You see no mans Soul: And yet we certainly know that such things are and will be.
Q. 2. How know you that there is any thing above us, but what we see?