Philosophia pia; or, a discourse of the religious temper, and tendencies of the experimental philosophy, which is profest by the Royal Society. To which is annext a recommendation, and defence of reason in the affairs of religion / By Jos. Glanville.

  • Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
Date:
1671
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Credit: Philosophia pia; or, a discourse of the religious temper, and tendencies of the experimental philosophy, which is profest by the Royal Society. To which is annext a recommendation, and defence of reason in the affairs of religion / By Jos. Glanville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    difeafe it felf is nuedermined. (V.) Ic inclines men to reckon (as was intimated before) that the Effential Principles of Religion lye in the plain, certain Articles. For Philofophers are difpofed to think, by converfe with Nature, that certainty is in very few things 3 and whoever believes fo concerne ing the tenents of Theology, will not lay the main ftrefs upon any, but the clear, acknowledg’d Principles ; and he that doth that, ferves all the important concern- ments of Religion. He will not not wrangle tor every conceit 3 nor divide for every difference; but takes care to walk in the ways of Charity, Humble Obedience, and Confcionable practice of the Truths he knows and owns. By fuch a courfe the Church is fafe, and Schifins