The Works of Ralph Cudworth: Containing The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Sermons, &c. ; A New Edition, with References to the Several Quotations in the Intellectual System, and a Life of the Author, Volume 1D.A. Talboys, 1829 - Theology |
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Page 414 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 293 - Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Page 293 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished ; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 200 - I conceive that nothing taketh beginning from itself, but from the action of some other immediate agent without itself. And that therefore, when first a man hath an appetite or will to something, to which immediately before he had no appetite nor will, the cause of his will, is not the will itself, but something else not in his own disposing ; so that whereas it is out of controversy, that of voluntary actions...
Page 328 - Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul ; Nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
Page 20 - He was much for liberty of conscience ; and being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform nature (to use one of his own phrases). In order to this, he set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully, and Plotin, and on considering the Christian religion as a doctrine sent from God, both to elevate and sweeten human nature,...
Page 11 - Cudworth, who has raised such strong objections against the being of a GOD, and Providence,* that many think he has not answered them.
Page 21 - Cudworth carried this on with a great strength of genius and a vast compass of learning. He was a man of great conduct and prudence, upon which his enemies did very falsely accuse him of craft and dissimulation.
Page 12 - You know the common fate of those who dare to appear fair authors. What was that pious and learned man's case who wrote The Intellectual System of the Universe^ I confess it was pleasant enough to consider that, though the whole world were no less satisfied with his capacity and learning than with his sincerity in the cause of deity, yet was he accused of giving the upper hand to the atheists for having only stated their reasons and those of their adversaries fairly together.
Page 53 - Wherefore mere speculation and dry mathematical reason, in minds unpurified, and having a contrary interest of carnality and a heavy load of infidelity and distrust sinking them down, cannot alone beget an unshaken confidence and assurance of so high a truth as this — the existence of one perfect understanding' Being, the original of all things.