...not /to be lightly passed over: for if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he...for the ! contemplation of God's creatures and works produccth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge; but having regard to God,...

...EBxaletb.) r SUPERNATURAL KNOWLEDGE. If any man fhall think by view and inquiry into thefe fenfible and material things to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himfelf the nature or will of God, then indeed is he fpoiled by vain philofophy : for the contemplation...

...received, "all from ignorance", appearing sometimes in the zeal and jealousy of divines who forget that "the Contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth...knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge"; sometimes in the severity and arrogance of politicians, and sometimes in the errors and imperfections...

...not to be lightly passed over : for if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby...the nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled 10 by vain philosophy : for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having regard...

...not to be lightly passed over : for' if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he...produceth (having regard to the works and creatures them- ; selves) knowledge ; but having regard to God, no perfect j knowledge, but wonder, which is...

...into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he may reveal unto himself the 25 nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by...no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken 3 o knowledge. And therefore it was most aptly said by one of Plato's school, 'That the sense of man...

...and not to be lightly passed over. For if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he may reveal unto himself the 25 nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy ; for the contemplation of God's...

...which the first is taken from The Advancement of Learning and the remaining two from the Novum Organum: "For the contemplation of God's creatures and works...knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge." "Therefore let all men know how much difference there is between the idola of the human Mind and the...

...1 Bacon, in ' Philosophical Classics,' vol. ii. p. 128. 2 Works, iii. 218. Cf. Works, iii. 267 : ' The contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth...knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge.' 3 £>t Aug., Bk. iv. ch, iii., Works, iv. 397, 398. D Philosophy is certisslma superstitionis medicina,...

...not to be lightly passed over : for if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the Nature or WUl of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy: for the contemplation of God's creatures...