Plus ultra: or, the progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle. In an account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, useful learning / [Joseph Glanvill].

Joseph Glanvill

Date:: 1668

Credit: Plus ultra: or, the progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle. In an account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, useful learning / [Joseph Glanvill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$i144. Modern Improvements | ¢ Endeavours to know the Truth of the ehriftian Faith ; and after the Foundations | (ec, laid, inthe fettling the grand Article, The } wor BEING OF A GOD, and the confe- } {il quent Dokrines of Natural Theology, l fate | att me down to inquire about the Asthority | \wi of the Holy Scriptures ; not that I pofitively | Te doubted or diffrufted their veracity, but thar | har ay Imight havea firm bottom, and be able | A . ee to give an accountof my Faith and Hope. | thtt ae : Inmy Inquiry, the firft Difcourfes met. } hay ae with on the Subje& did not at all fasisfie, | ino i but feemed weak and hugely cbvosiows: But | ot . in the progrefs of my fearch, I lighted on» | ima thofe grounds which (1 thank God) gui- | sha i] eted my mind, and gave me the moft De- | 5, 5 % . monftrative afjurance that the nature of the | 4 MW j | thing could dear, of the truth and certain- | jf, | oe ty of thofle Sacred Writings, which un-. | yy doubtedly contain the fullef? Difcoveries | wy of the Divine Wifdom and Perfections,which | jt, 1 infinitely admire ; and fhall eternally | 19 adore that Goodnefs that bleft the Sons of | zip a men with fuch clear Difcoveries of his || », a3 Will. And though I perceive that the | \¢ Hi Follies and Super ftitions of Sects, who have the: the Holy Oracles always in their mouths, hoy and prefs gem for the Service of their con- | thy ceits » have prejudiced fome of the pre- | ao, tenders$