. A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr. Henry More. one Animal. HE firft Rule that I laid down in my IntroduBion to inmhH,the Defence of my Threefold Cabbala I need not here ^•^?again repeat, but defire the Reader only to carry itin minde, and it will warrant the eafie and familiarfenfe that I (hall fettle upon ji/?M/Learning ) that may gain belief to the truth of the Inter-pretation. Ferf. I. In this firft verfe I put tio other fenfe of Tnilfe beginningsthen that: it denotes to us the order of the Hiftory. Which is alfo theopinion of Maimonides, who deriving rTtUKl from iy«T f
. A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr. Henry More. one Animal. HE firft Rule that I laid down in my IntroduBion to inmhH,the Defence of my Threefold Cabbala I need not here ^•^?again repeat, but defire the Reader only to carry itin minde, and it will warrant the eafie and familiarfenfe that I (hall fettle upon ji/?M/Learning ) that may gain belief to the truth of the Inter-pretation. Ferf. I. In this firft verfe I put tio other fenfe of Tnilfe beginningsthen that: it denotes to us the order of the Hiftory. Which is alfo theopinion of Maimonides, who deriving rTtUKl from iy«T fignifying the ^ore Nevoch,Head^ rightly obfave&the Analogy; that as the Headxs the forepart of f-^-?-Jo- a living. wg T})e Vefence of the Literal Cahhala. Chap. I. a living creature, fo IT^KI fignifies that which is placed firft in any thingclfe: and that thus the Creation of the world is the Head or Forepart ofthe Hiftory that Mefes intends to fet down. Wherefore Mefes having in his minde (as is plain from the Title ofthis Book, Genefis^ as well as the matter therein contained ) to write anHiftory and Genealogy from the Beginning of the World to his own*time, it is very eafie and obvious to conceive, that in reference to what heftiould after adde, he faid. In the beginning; as if the whole frame of histhoughts lay thus. Firft of all, God made the Heavens and the Earth,with all that they contain, the Sun, Moon, and Stars, the Day and Night,the Plants, and living creatures that were in the Air, Water, and on theEarth 5 and after all thefehe made Adam, and Adam begot Cain andAbel, and fo on in the full continuance of the Hiftory and Genealogies. And this fenfe I conceive is more eafie and natural th
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