 So as we ought not to attempt to draw down or submit the mysteries of God to our reason, but contrariwise to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth.  Homer and the Iliad - Page 221by John Stuart Blackie - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Religion - 1811 - 872 pages
...infant on the breast comprehend the pursuits of the philosopher. " We ought not," says Lord Baron, " to attempt to draw down or submit the mysteries of God to our reason ; but, on the contrary, to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth." The mysterious doctrines of... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1825 - 512 pages
...philosophical refinements. On this subject one of the most profound thinkers ' that ever lived has said, " We ought not to attempt to draw down or submit the mysteries of God to our reason ; but, on the contrary, to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth. In this part of knowledge, touching... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
..." Jupiter down to the earth; but contrariwise, Jupiter " was able to draw them up to heaven." So as we ought not to attempt to draw down or submit the...contrariwise, to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth. So as in tbis part of knowledge, touching divine philosophy, I am so far from noting a»y deficience,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Atheism - 1821 - 108 pages
...straitened and girt into the narrow compass of the mind." He says again, in his Advancement of Learning, " We ought not to attempt to draw down, or submit the mysteries of God to our reason ; but, on the contrary, to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth." I stop here, because this finishes... | |
 | Arminianism - 1833 - 958 pages
...down to the earth ; but contrariwise, Jupiter was able to draw them up to heaven.' So as we ought net to attempt to draw down or submit the mysteries of...contrariwise to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth." " The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man ; so that, as... | |
 | Arminianism - 1823 - 908 pages
...philosophical refinements. On this subject one of the most profound thinkers that ever lived, has" said, " We ought not to attempt to draw down or submit the mysteries of Goo to our reason ; but, on the contrary, to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth. In this... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...Jupiter down to the earth ; but contrariwise, Jupi" ter was able to draw them up to heaven." So as we ought not to attempt to draw down or submit the...contrariwise, to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth. So as in this part of knowledge, touching divine philosophy, I am so far from noting any deficience,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...draw Jupiter down to the earth ; but contrariwise, Jupiter was able to draw them up to heaven." So as we ought not to attempt to draw down or submit the...contrariwise to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth. So as in this part of knowledge, touching divine philosophy, I am so far from noting any deficience,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...Jupiter down to the earth ; but contra" riwise, Jupiter was able to draw them up to " heaven." So as we ought not to attempt to draw down or submit the...contrariwise to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth. So as in this part of knowledge, touching divine philosophy, I am so far from noting any deficience,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1825 - 516 pages
...philosophical refinements. On this subject one of the most profound thinkers that ever lived has said, " We ought not to attempt to draw down or submit the mysteries of God to our reason ; but, on the contrary, to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth. In this part of knowledge, touching... | |
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