Date: 1696
"'Twas heedless Fancy first, that made me stray, / But Reason now breaks forth, and lights me on my way."
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Date: 1697
"What is it then that lights the Candle again, when it is put out?"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
It is commendable for "a Man to attend to his own Thoughts and Conceptions, and the best Light he hath"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"But he Employ'd to set their Judgments right, / No Force but Reason's mild but powerful Light."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Oh, let no groundless Prejudice oppose / The Light, that from so pure a Fountain flows. / May these kind Beams dispel the Clouds, and find / An unobstructed Passage to your Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Then climbs the Mind to the first glorious Cause, / And his bright Image by this Model draws. / Freedom of Choice, pure Intellectual Light, / Power Independent, Goodness Infinite, / To form the great Idea we unite."
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Date: 1698
"All Divine Truth is of one of these two Emanations:--Either it flows from God, in the first Instant and Moment of God's Creation; and then it is the Light of that Candle which God set up in Man, to light him; and that which by this Light he may discover, are all the Instances of Morality; of goo...
preview | full record— Whichcote, Benjamin (1609-1683)
Date: 1698
"The First Step we take into our Inmost Thoughts, we meet with and discover these Primary Truths: whose Self-Evidence is the Earliest Light that dawns to our Soul, as soon as over her Power of Knowing awakens into Action."
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"From all which Considerations, (any One of which might suffice,) I may Safely and Evidently conclude, that, in point of Evidence of its Truth, and Stability of its Grounds, nothing can be any way comparable to the Light which strikes the Eye of our Understanding, by its steady Rays emitted from ...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"So that, which way soever you wriggle, to avoid our Rule, the Light of Common Reason, or Natural Logick, will force you into it, whether you will or no."
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