item: #1 of 11 id: A01894 author: Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680. title: Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers occasions. By Tho: Goodvvin B.D. date: 1637 words: 37965 flesch: 77 summary: Now for sinnes committed collaterally , or per modum circumstantia ( that I may so expresse it ) against knowledge , they are done either when particular acts of sinne are committed , and duties omitted , against light and knowledge ; and so the Saints may and doe often sinne against knowledge . But these are not sinnes great enough for thee , that art a sinner of the Christians ; to be given up to drunkennesse , or adultery , &c. otherwise than to discover thy rottennesse , these are too small sins ; but thou shalt be given up to inward profanenesse of heart , ( as Esau was , having been brought up in a good family ) so as not to neglect holy duties onely , but to despise them ; to despise the good word of God and his Saints , and to hate godlinesse and the appearance of it ; thou shalt be given up to contemne God and his judgements , to trample under foot the blood of the covenant , or else unto devilish opinions ; those other are too small to be punishments of thy sinne : keywords: apostle; christ; day; doe; doth; evill; god; good; goodnesse; hath; heart; himselfe; ibid; knowledge; law; light; man; men; onely; owne; psal; riches; sayes; sinne; sinning; sins; thee; things; thou; thy; time; world cache: A01894.xml plain text: A01894.txt item: #2 of 11 id: A26553 author: Abercromby, David, d. 1701 or 2. title: Academia scientiarum, or, The academy of sciences being a short and easie introduction to the knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, with the names of those famous authors that have written on every particular science : in English and Latine / by D. Abercromby ... date: 1687 words: 24475 flesch: 54 summary: The first signifieth , that whatever 〈◊〉 generally affirmed of any thing , m●… likewise be affirm'd of whatever is contain'd under that thing , as if I s●… Every Animal is a living Creature , th●… it follows , that a Bird is a living Cre●tur● ▪ The second signifieth , that what ever is generally denied of any thing is denied likewise of whatever is contain'd under that thing ; as if I say No Animal is a Stone , then I may , an cught likewise to say , No Bird is Stone , No Man is a Stone , &c. I then b● allowed to say , without the least suspicio● of flattery , that you are not only th● la●ful Successor of the most Ancient , mo● Noble , and Loyal Family of the Thai● of Calder , and of their Estate and For ▪ tune , but also , that you are already possess'd of these good and great Endowments both of Body and Mind , which made them capable of the great Employments they were intrusted with , and enabled them on all occasions to render the Kings of Scotland and Great Britain such signal Services , as can never be forgotten . keywords: account; agit; algebra; america; angles; ars; art; atque; aut; authors; bodies; books; centrum; circles; circuli; contain'd; cum; degrees; dicitur; docet; dosis; duo; earth; ejusdem; english; enim; eorum; equator; esse; est; euclid; eye; general; good; graduum; haec; height; hic; hoc; horizon; hujus; inter; ipsius; ita; jam; kind; knowledge; lat; line; longit; mare; matter; men; moon; motion; mundi; new; nihil; non; number; numerus; object; objectum; omnes; omnibus; ope; pariter; parts; philosophy; place; point; pole; principia; principles; quae; quaedam; quam; quatuor; qui; quia; quibus; quicquid; quod; radices; rays; rerum; roots; science; scientia; sea; second; sectio; sed; semper; sequentes; seu; simul; sit; sive; solis; sphaera; sphere; spherical; streight; subject; sunt; supra; tantum; tcp; text; things; treatise; treats; vel; versus; water; world cache: A26553.xml plain text: A26553.txt item: #3 of 11 id: A30485 author: Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715. title: Second remarks upon An essay concerning humane understanding in a letter address'd to the author, being a vindication of the first remarks against the answer of Mr. Lock, at the end of his reply to the Lord Bishop of Worcester. date: 1697 words: 7775 flesch: 64 summary: Sir , I did not presume to desire to know the full Systems of your Morality , but the Basis up on which you would build it : And you having declar'd more than once , That from Grounds and Principles laid down in your Book , Morality might be Mathematically demonstrated , I thought it would give no offence to enquire which Ground or Principle you pitcht upon for your Foundation . Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. keywords: answer; god; good; morality; nature; principles; sense; soul; things; way cache: A30485.xml plain text: A30485.txt item: #4 of 11 id: A39370 author: Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707. title: Reflections upon some passages in a book, entitled reflections upon the conduct of human life. With reference to the study of learning and knowledge. By Edmund Elys. date: 1690 words: 1810 flesch: 68 summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31292) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . keywords: english; knowledge; tcp; text cache: A39370.xml plain text: A39370.txt item: #5 of 11 id: A42833 author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. title: The vanity of dogmatizing, or, Confidence in opinions manifested in a discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our knowledge, and its causes : with some reflexions on peripateticism, and an apology for philosophy / by Jos. Glanvill ... date: 1661 words: 48341 flesch: 60 summary: The first deception enter'd in at this Postern , and hath ever since kept it open for the entry of Legion : so that we scarse see any thing now but through our Passions , the most blind , and sophisticate things about us . And therefore , as that great man , the Lord Bacon hath observ'd , Time as a River , hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial ; while things more solid and substantial have been immersed . keywords: account; aristotle; belief; bodies; body; brain; cartes; cause; chap; des; discourse; doth; earth; easie; evidence; faculties; good; hath; hypothesis; ignorance; imagination; instances; knowledge; light; little; love; man; manner; matter; men; motion; nature; object; opinions; parts; philosophy; place; power; principles; reason; science; self; selves; sense; soul; spirits; sun; things; truth; viz; way; world; yea cache: A42833.xml plain text: A42833.txt item: #6 of 11 id: A48871 author: Locke, John, 1632-1704. title: An abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning humane [sic] understanding date: 1696 words: 58805 flesch: 62 summary: Secondly , They are designed for Representations in the mind of Things that do exist , by Ideas discoverable in them : in both which respects they are Inadaequate . This shews us the reason why in defining Words , we make use of the Genus : namely to save the labour of enumerating the several Simple Ideas , which the next general Term stands for : General Terms then belong not to the real Existence of Things ; they are Inventions of the Understanding , and concern only Signs , either Words or Ideas . keywords: bodies; body; chap; complex; existence; ideas; knowledge; man; men; mind; modes; motion; names; parts; perception; power; propositions; qualities; reason; self; senses; stand; substances; things; truth; use; words cache: A48871.xml plain text: A48871.txt item: #7 of 11 id: A52433 author: Masham, Damaris, Lady, 1658-1708. title: Reflections upon the conduct of human life with reference to the study of learning and knowledge : in a letter to the excellent lady, the Lady Masham / by John Norris ... ; to which is annex'd a visitation sermon, by the same author. date: 1690 words: 31550 flesch: 63 summary: To question their Conduct in any thing else , would be but a trivial Charge , and such as they would not only readily Pardon , but Acknowledge ; it being a common thing with Learned Men not only to own , but studiously to affect Ignorance in things besides their Profession , as in Secular business , the common Affairs of Life , the Mysteries of Trades and the like . So much more Learned an atchievement is it to know Opinions than things ; and accordingly , those are reckon'd the most Learned Authors , who have given the greatest Specimens of this kind of Knowledge . keywords: christ; church; end; god; good; knowledge; learning; life; light; love; man; men; method; perfection; present; question; self; study; things; tho; truth; understanding; way; wisdom; world cache: A52433.xml plain text: A52433.txt item: #8 of 11 id: A53057 author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. title: Philosophicall fancies. Written by the Right Honourable, the Lady Newcastle. date: 1653 words: 16209 flesch: 74 summary: But as an equall motion makes light , and a perturb'd motion makes colour , which is between Light , & Darknesse : So Darknesse is an Opposite Motion to those Motions that make light ; for though Light is an equall Motion , yet it is such a kind , or sort of Motion . What makes a Naturall Aversion from some Creatures to others , and what causes an unnaturalnsse to their owne kind and Breed ? What Motion makes Thunder , Lightning , VVinde , Earthquakes , Cold , Ice , Snow , Haile , Rain , what Motions makes drought , Heat . keywords: animall; body; degrees; figure; hath; infinite; knowledge; light; matter; minde; motion; nature; power; reason; run; sense; sensitive; spirits; thoughts cache: A53057.xml plain text: A53057.txt item: #9 of 11 id: A61523 author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. title: The bishop of Worcester's answer to Mr. Locke's second letter wherein his notion of ideas is prov'd to be inconsistent with itself, and with the articles of the Christian faith. date: 1698 words: 39404 flesch: 70 summary: What is meant by these Archetypes in the Mind which cannot deceive us ? I confess here are such things said in order to Certainty , which are above my Understanding , if taken with respect to Things ; as how we cannot but be infallibly certain , that all the Knowledge we attain concerning these Ideas is real , and reaches things themselves , and yet they are Archetypes of the Mind 's own making , not intended to be the Copies of any thing , nor referr'd to the Existence of any thing . And to pretend to Certainty by Ideas without pretending to clear and distinct Ideas , is to judge without Evidence , and to determine a thing to be certainly true , when we cannot know whether it be so or not ; for how can you be sure that your Ideas agree with the Reality of things ( wherein you place the Certainty of Knowledge ) if there be no such Ideas of those things , that you can perceive their true Nature , and their difference from all others ? keywords: answer; body; certainty; common; faith; ideas; knowledge; man; matter; men; nature; person; principles; reason; sect; self; substance; things; way; words cache: A61523.xml plain text: A61523.txt item: #10 of 11 id: A65786 author: White, Thomas, 1593-1676. title: An exclusion of scepticks from all title to dispute being an answer to The vanity of dogmatizing / by Thomas White. date: 1665 words: 22200 flesch: 59 summary: Nature her self , therefore , teaches us , that Man is an Animal endued with Reason , to fit him for governing his Action , and Reason is allowed to be That whereby what before was unknown is rendred known : dayly Experience also convinces that our Action consists for the most part in such things as are subject to an infinite and insuperable mutability and variation : whence it comes to pass , that that Vertue which is immediate to action cannot properly be called Science ( since 't is not infallible , and the effect of demonstrative Discourse ) but a power of conjecturing aptly ; and uses commonly to be term'd Prudence , either properly or derivatively ; properly , if it be concerning the thing to be done , as to its right proceeding from Reason ; analogically , if of the action or thing to be done , as it regards some other inferior Faculty subservient to the dominion of Reason . For , if to Reason be to advance our selves , out of certain and known things , to things before unknown and uncertain ; and nothing be certain : neither is any Reasoning possible ; nor consequently any power of reasoning ; or Animal endowed with it . keywords: action; animal; aristotle; body; demonstration; force; man; manner; motion; nature; parts; philosophy; plea; power; scepticks; science; self; soul; things; truth; use; way cache: A65786.xml plain text: A65786.txt item: #11 of 11 id: A70185 author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. title: Scepsis scientifica, or, Confest ignorance, the way to science in an essay of The vanity of dogmatizing, and confident opinion : with a reply to the exceptions of the learned Thomas Albius / by Joseph Glanvill ... date: 1665 words: 27198 flesch: 55 summary: And Aristotle himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . And ( 2. ) his calling God , the Quintessence , Form , the Soul , and Motion , by the common appellative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To all which might be added , that 't is an argument that the Aristotelean method was not so clear and cautious , as our Author would have it believed ; since his Commentators have been infinitely divided about his meaning : And our Author himself complains , That those of the latter Schools have quite receded from his genuine doctrine , which either accuses their ignorance , or his obscurity . keywords: account; answer; aristotle; author; body; discourse; distinct; est; gentleman; god; hath; hypothesis; knowledge; man; matter; men; motion; nature; opinion; pag; parts; philosophers; philosophy; plato; principles; quantity; reason; science; self; sense; soul; subject; substance; things; truth; viz; way; words; world; writings; yea cache: A70185.xml plain text: A70185.txt