Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy. Propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it / [Anon].

  • Robert Boyle
Date:
1663
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Credit: Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy. Propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And the Lofty Seneca (to mention now no other Hea¬ thens) in divers paflages of his excellent Writings, ftiles the World a Temple*, and I remember in hisTreatife, De Bene- ficiis, he avers in terms not unworthy his Mind or his $ubje&> v Tot urn mttndum Deorum etje immortalium Temp him , folurn sen. /i.7.^.7. quids m amplttudine tllorum ac magnificent id dignum. That the whole World is the Temple of the immortal Gods, being alone worthy of their Grandeur and Magnificence. *The aflent of the Jewifh Philofophers, to this Notion, you may be pleafed to receive from tteeir Eloquent Philo, who not only gives de the World the Name of Temple, but gives us this account ^ of that appellation 5 Templum Dei fupremum & vere tale exifiimare totum hunc mttndum, qui facrartum quidem habet, punf imam rerum nature partem^ Caelum 5 ornamenta, Jhlla facer dotes , admtnijlros potential ej us * Angelos, & incorporea* ant mas .The whole FForldis to be accounted the chief eft Templeof God, the San&u Sandioru efit is thepurejl part of the Univerfe, Heaven•, the ornaments , the Stars ; the Priejls, the Minifters cf His Power, Angels > and immaterial Souls. And as for Chriftian Philofophers, I luppofe it would be needleiTe to enu¬ merate the paflages wherein they adapt the Notion of the World already mention'd 5 and therefore Ifhali content my felfe to adde, that the Scripturejt felfe feems to Authorife it by reprefenting to us in theSthand 9th Chapters of the Epiftle to the Hebrews, the Mofaical Tabernacle, as an adumbration of that Great Temple of the Wodd j and particularly there ^ isafignal Text in the latter of thofe Chapters, where it isfaid Hc thatChriftis not enter’d into Holy places made with Hands ]which are copies of the truefi* v 7jtj nu rcc v n2nva>v but into Heaven it felfe, now to appeare in the prefence of God for us. Upon what account, Pjrophilus^ I efteem the World a ~ Temple, I may elfewhere have occafioti to Declare •, but' this for the prefent: 7 It will not be rafh to infer that if the World be a Temple, Man fure muft be the Prieft,ordain'd (by being I ' qualified