"The Soul of Man comes into this World at least as Ill-informed of the Affairs of Grace, as those of Nature. It is in all respects, a Rasa tabula, a meer Blank, and hath need of being fill'd with every thing"
— Jurieu, Pierre (1637-1713); Fleetwood, William, Trans.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Harper
Date
1692, 1702
Metaphor
"The Soul of Man comes into this World at least as Ill-informed of the Affairs of Grace, as those of Nature. It is in all respects, a Rasa tabula, a meer Blank, and hath need of being fill'd with every thing"
Metaphor in Context
The Soul of Man comes into this World at least as Ill-informed of the Affairs of Grace, as those of Nature. It is in all respects, a Rasa tabula, a meer Blank, and hath need of being fill'd with every thing: it easily acquires the knowledge of what is necessary to the subsistance of its life; because those Lights are furnish'd by the Senses, and because those Objects are of its reach: but it hath need of greater strength, to attain to that knowledge that concerns the Spiritual Life, because those Objects are disproportioned to its force: and yet these Notices are absolutely necessary to the practice of Vertue, and especially the practice of Devotion. […]
(p. 248)
(p. 248)
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Searching "tabula rasa" in ECCO
Citation
5 entries in ESTC (1692, 1702, 1715, 1724, 1730).
See A Plain Method of Christian Devotion: Laid Down in Discourses, Meditations, and Prayers, Fitted to the Various Occasions of a Religious Life. Translated and Revised from the French of Monsieur Jurieu. The two and twentieth edition. (London: Printed for C. Harper at the Flower de luce over against S. Dunstans Church, in Fleetstreet, 1692). <Link to ESTC>
Found searching in ECCO in A Plain Method of Christian Devotion: Laid Down in Discourses, Meditations, and Prayers, Fitted to the Various Occasions of a Religious Life. Translated and Revised from the French of Monsieur Jurieu.. The three and twentieth edition, (London: Printed for C. Harper at the Flower-de-luce over against S. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1702). <Link to ESTC>
See A Plain Method of Christian Devotion: Laid Down in Discourses, Meditations, and Prayers, Fitted to the Various Occasions of a Religious Life. Translated and Revised from the French of Monsieur Jurieu. The two and twentieth edition. (London: Printed for C. Harper at the Flower de luce over against S. Dunstans Church, in Fleetstreet, 1692). <Link to ESTC>
Found searching in ECCO in A Plain Method of Christian Devotion: Laid Down in Discourses, Meditations, and Prayers, Fitted to the Various Occasions of a Religious Life. Translated and Revised from the French of Monsieur Jurieu.. The three and twentieth edition, (London: Printed for C. Harper at the Flower-de-luce over against S. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1702). <Link to ESTC>
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Date of Entry
10/08/2006
