Locke [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Stamp [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]

London

Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]

1755

The faculties of mind with which man is endowed are witness to God's being

Though God has given us no innate ideas of himself, though he as stampt no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being; yet having furnished us with those faculties our minds are endowed with, he hath not left himself without witness.

Government::Court::Witness

Consulted Johnson's Dictionary after searching "stamp" in HDIS.

Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.

Innate Ideas

05/12/2005