Religio medici.

  • Thomas Browne
Date:
1831
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Credit: Religio medici. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    perished, but withdrawn into their incombustible part, where they lie secure from the action of that devouring element. This is made good by experi- ence, which can from the ashes of a plant revive the plant, and from its cinders recall it into its stalks and leaves again. What the art of man can do in these inferior pieces, what blasphemy is it to affirm the finger of God cannot do in these more perfect and sensible structures ? This is that mys- tical philosophy, from whence no true scholar be- comes an atheist, but from the visible effects of nature grows up a real divine, and beholds not in a dream, as Ezekiel, but in an ocular and visible ob- ject, the types of his resurrection. XLIX. Now the necessary mansions of our re- stored selves, are those two contrary and incompa- tible places we call heaven and hell: to define them, or strictly to determine what and where these are, surpasseth my divinity. That elegant apostle which seemed to have a glimpse of heaven, hath left but a negative description thereof: which neither eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard, nor can enter into the heart of man : he was translated out of himself to behold it; but being returned into himself could not express it. St. John’s descrip- tion by emeralds, chrysolites, and precious stones, is too weak to express the material heaven we be- hold. Briefly therefore, where the soul hath the
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