Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1872 - Cambridge Platonists |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
appeared argument Arian Arminianism Atheism betwixt body Cambridge divines Cambridge movement Cambridge Platonists Cambridge school Cartesian character Christ Christ's College Christian Church College conceived conception Cudworth Culverwel Deity Democritic Descartes Discourse distinct doctrine dogmatic doth edition Emmanuel Emmanuel College enthusiasm eternal faith friends genius Gospel hath higher Hobbes human hylozoic hypostases Ibid idea Immortality knowledge Latitudinarian learning less letter Leviathan light living matter meaning ment merely mind moral More's movement mystical nature Neo-Platonic ness never notion opinions original philo philosophy plainly Platonic Platonists Plotinus preached principles prophetic Puritan Pythagoras question rational reality reason religion religious says Scripture sect seems sense sermons seventeenth century Smith Socinians soul speak speculations spirit studies substance supposed theological theory things thinker thought tion treatise true truth Tuckney understanding University of Edinburgh vindicate Westminster Assembly Whichcote Whichcote's words Worthington writings
Popular passages
Page 197 - I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God : and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. — Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and ol the table of devils.
Page 282 - Where there is no common power, there is no law : where no law, no injustice.
Page 501 - CRAWFORD. The Doctrine of Holy Scripture respecting the Atonement. By the late THOMAS J. CRAWFORD. DD, Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh. Third Edition. 8vo, 12s. The Fatherhood of God, Considered in its General and Special Aspects, and particularly in relation to the Atonement, with a Review of Recent Speculations on the Subject.
Page 32 - Afterwards he married Cromwell's sister ; but made no other use of that alliance, but to do good offices, and to cover the university from the sourness of Owen and Goodwin. At Cambridge he joined with those who studied to propagate better thoughts, to take men off from being in parties, or from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits, and a fierceness about opinions.
Page 501 - Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown Svo, 6s. History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century.
Page 500 - Autobiography of the Rev. Dr Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk. Containing Memorials of the Men and Events of his Time.
Page 128 - shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever.
Page 499 - A Discourse on Ethics,' &c. A New Edition. Crown 8vo, IDS. 6d. Gravenhurst ; or, Thoughts on Good and Evil. Second Edition, with Memoir of the Author. Crown 8vo, 8s. A Discourse on Ethics of the School of Paley.
Page 143 - To seek our Divinity merely in books and writings, is to seek the living among the dead. We do but in vain seek God many times in these, where His Truth too often is not so much enshrined as entombed. No. Intro, te quaere Deum, seek for God within thine own soul...
Page 259 - The original of them all, is that which we call "sense," for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.