A supplement to the Athenian oracle : being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd. To which is prefix'd the history of the Athenian Society, and an essay upon learning / [by J. Dunton?] By a member of the Athenian Society.

John Dunton

Date:: 1710

Credit: A supplement to the Athenian oracle : being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd. To which is prefix'd the history of the Athenian Society, and an essay upon learning / [by J. Dunton?] By a member of the Athenian Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$: er. ; ‘ ee 434 A Supplement to the Neng . whence they came, for that|* my felf all that little which I obferved nothing in them|- [participated of a perfec which feemed to render their |* being, 1 might’ have had: by * fuperior to me; J might be-]‘ the fame reafon from my, heve, that if they were}‘ felf, all the remainder which true, they were Dependen-/‘ I knew I wanted, and’ fo cies from my Nature, as far|‘ have been’ my felf’ infinite, forth as it had any perfecti-|* eternal, immutable, all. “on; and if they were not,}* knowing, almighty; and I wuade no accompt of them 3/* laftly, have had all thofe per- that is to fay, That they|* fections which I have obfer- Were in me, becaufe I had!‘ ved to be in God. For ac- , fomething deficient. But it|* cording to the way of Rea- could not be the fame with)‘ foning I hive now followed, “the Idea of a Being more!* to know the Nature of God, perfeé&t than mine: For to|¢ as far as mine own was capa- -efivem of it as of nothing, |¢ ble of ‘it, I-was'only to con- , was a thing manifeitly m- |¢ fiderof thofe things of which 5 poilible: And becaule' there | I found an Idea’ in me, whe- -“isno lels repugnaney that the |¢ ther ihe poffefling' of them “more periedt fhould iucceed |* were a perfection or ‘no 5 and “ from, ‘and depend upon the}* I was fure, that any of thofe “ Jets perfeét; than for fome-|* which had ‘any imperfections _ * thing’ to ‘proceed from’ ‘no-|¢ were not in him; buc'that‘all “thing, I cou’d no more hold {¢ others were, Lhw ‘that “it trom my ielf : So ag it fol- | Doubcfulnefs , - Tneonftancy , “ lowed, that it muft have been |¢ Sorrow, ai the ‘like, could “put into:me bya Nature |“ tlot be in him, feeing’ Lcou’d “ which’ was wuly more perfect |* my felf have wifh’d to have “than I, and even which hadj* been ‘exempted’ from them. “init all the perfections wheie- + Befides: this, f had-the: Idea’s of 1 coud have an Iden 5}¢ of Givers fenfible ‘and ¢or- “in one word-)God. Where- }* I'fuppoled that I doted, and “to EF added, that fince I knew [¢ that all that] law ‘or ima-~ ‘fome Perfettions which 1]*gined was ‘fale } yet cou’d “‘had not, I ‘was not the only {¢ 2 not deny but that thefe I- © Beng which has an exiltence,|¢ déa’s ‘were’ truly~“in “my “(1 fhall, ‘under ‘favour, ule |‘ Thoughts. But becaule Phad “here freely the terms of the |* mofi evidently known in my * Schools ) but that of neceffi- |‘ telf,; That the Underftanding “ty there muit befome orher}* Nature is diflin@ from the © more perfect whereon I de- }* Corporeal, beg ake that “pended; and from whom Jj‘ allCompofition witneileth a ‘had gotten all what] had: }* dependency,’and that depen- — ¢ For had 1 been alone, and'|*'deney is maniftftly a defedt, _ © depending upon no other!‘ I thence judged that it could _* thing, fo that I had had-of] © not. be'a Pertection of ts p$

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