A free enquiry into the vulgarly receivʼd notion of nature; made in an essay, addressʼd to a friend / By R.B., fellow of the Royal society.

  • Robert Boyle
Date:
1685/6 [1686]
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Credit: A free enquiry into the vulgarly receivʼd notion of nature; made in an essay, addressʼd to a friend / By R.B., fellow of the Royal society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (39%) 2. God having an Underftanding infinitely Superior to that of Man, in Extent, Clearnels, and other Excel¬ lencies, He may rationally be fup- pos’d to have fram’d fo Great and Admirable an Automaton as the World, and the fubordinate Engines compriz’d in it for feveral Ends and Purpofes, fome of them relating chiefly to His Corporeal, and others to His Rational Creatures ; of which Ends, he hath vouchfafed to make Some difcoverable by our dim Rea- fon, but Others are probably not to be penetrated by it, but lye conceal’d in the deep Abyls of His Unfathom¬ able VVifdom. 3. It feems not Incongruous to conceive, that this moft Excellent and Glorious Being thought fit to order Things lo, that both His Works and Affions might bear fome Signa¬ tures, and as it were Badges of His Attributes, and efpedally to ftamp upon His Corporeal Works fome Tokens or ImpreiTes, difcernabie by Human Intellects, of His Divine Wifdom;
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