Select discourses ... . M. T. Cicero De Legibus. JEx tot generibm nullum eft animal prater hominem quodhabeat notitiam aliquam Dei t ipfifque in hominibusnulla gens eft neqne tarn immanfueta^ neque tamfera^qua non^ etiamfi ignoret qualem habere Deum deceat^tamen habendum fciat. R OF J*? OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATUREofGOD!. Chap, L That the Befi way to know God is by an Attentive reflexi-on upon our own Souls. God more dearly and livelypittur dupon the Souls of Men^ then upon any part ofthe Senfible World. ,E (hall now come to the other Cardinal Prin-ciple of all Religion, & treat fomething
Select discourses ... . M. T. Cicero De Legibus. JEx tot generibm nullum eft animal prater hominem quodhabeat notitiam aliquam Dei t ipfifque in hominibusnulla gens eft neqne tarn immanfueta^ neque tamfera^qua non^ etiamfi ignoret qualem habere Deum deceat^tamen habendum fciat. R OF J*? OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATUREofGOD!. Chap, L That the Befi way to know God is by an Attentive reflexi-on upon our own Souls. God more dearly and livelypittur dupon the Souls of Men^ then upon any part ofthe Senfible World. ,E (hall now come to the other Cardinal Prin-ciple of all Religion, & treat fomething con-cerning God, Where we (hall not fo muchdemonftrate That he is, as What he which we may beft learn from a Reflexion uponour own Souls5 as Plotinus hath well taught us, &s Itzutov&hq*pt(pa)v 5 eis dp%lu) 6hq*pl<f\ , He which reflects uponhimfelf\ refleffs upon his own Originall, and finds thecleareft Impreflion of fome Eternall Nature and Per-fed Being ftampd upon his own Soul. And there-fore Plato feems fometimes to reprove the ruder fortof men in his times for their contrivance of Pi&uresand Images to put themfelves in mind of the0gol orAngelicall Beings, and exhorts them to look into theirown Souls, which are the faireft Images not onely of R 2 the ta4 Of the Exijtence the Lower divine
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