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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    fhewing the certainty, and divine Original of the Teftimony that ac- quaints us with thofe facred My fte- rics. This it doth by aggregating thofe multitudes of circumftances that fhew the Infallible truth of Scripture Hiftory, and twifts fucha cord asisas {trong as any thing in Geometry or Nature. And there= fore I cannot chufe but wonder what itis that inclines fome men, who are otherwife fober enough, to let flye fo lavifhly, and indif- creetly againft Reafon, and Pbilo- Sophy, efpecially inan Age fo ex- ceeding prone to Phantaftry, and Madne/s, and that hath been rui- ned in all its concerns by Enthuft- afm, and vain pretences to the Spirit. _ . Tis true,the difcourfes of fonie who have talk’t much of Philofo- phy,