This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...but one mind, and God is the mind of the world. Wherefore, as there is but one world, so there is but one God. And that no man should misdeem this spirit and mind of which he speaketh, not to be God, he expoundeth these words in another place, saying: _3 King omitted from the edition of 1560. Peum naniquc iro ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...but one mind, and God is the mind of the world. Wherefore, as there is but one world, so there is but one God. And that no man should misdeem this spirit and mind of which he speaketh, not to be God, he expoundeth these words in another place, saying: _3 King omitted from the edition of 1560. Peum naniquc iro per omnes, Terrasque, tractusque maris, ccelumque profundum. "God goeth through all, seen or unseen with eye; Through earth, and sea, through heaven deep and high." Ovid also, in his book called Metamorphoses, witnesseth, that one God formed all things of a confused heap. I do not call poets to witness, that I think any credit to be given to their words, but to shew that this thing is so manifest a truth, that they which were blind did see it. But as I have spoken of poets, so will I speak of the philosophers. Thales Milesius, one of the seven famous wise men, held opinion, that water is the stuff and matter of which all things were made, and that God formed them thereof; granting both one God to be maker of all things, and also telling whereof. For the scriptures call the confused heap of which all things were made, by the name of ' water'; as it is written, "The Spirit of God was borne upon the waters." Pythagoras also defineth God to be a mind, filling and ruling all the portions of the world. And one body hath but one mind; wherefore the world hath but one God. For God is a mind, and the world is the body. He also said, that the number of three was the beginning of all things: teaching the people of his time that God is a Trinity, in a riddle and obscure speech, because it would not be borne openly. If there were many worlds, as some think, it were some probability to say there were many Gods. Parmenides thinketh, ...
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