 | Richard H. Palmquist - Political Science - 2005 - 294 pages
...bodily figure and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, nor touched; nor ought he to be worshiped under the representation of any corporeal thing. We...but what the real substance of anything is we know not."100 However, there is no hope in not knowing. No confidence, no contentment can be borne of admitting... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, or touched; nor ought he to be worshiped under the representation of any corporeal thing. We...of his attributes, but what the real substance of any thing is we know not. In bodies, we see only their figures and colours, we hear only the sounds,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...He is utterly void of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, or touched; nor ought he to be worshipped under the representation...of his attributes, but what the real substance of any thing is we know not. In bodies, we see only their figures and colours, we hear only the sounds,... | |
 | Christopher J. Windolph - Philosophy - 2007 - 213 pages
...superiority of naturalistic science. But as Newton observed in the Principia Mathematica (1687/1713), "what the real substance of anything is, we know not. In bodies, we see only their figures and colors, we hear only the sounds, we touch only their outward surfaces, we smell only the smells, and... | |
 | Robert Tavernor - Mathematics - 2007 - 270 pages
...incorporeal: 'utterly devoid of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, nor touched; nor ought he to be worshipped under the representation of any corporeal thing'.7 It is assumed that Newton's all-pervading, bodiless God stemmed from his belief in Arianism,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 434 pages
...He is utterly void of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, nor touched ; nor ought he to be worshipped under the...know not. In bodies, we see only their figures and colors, we hear only the sounds, we touch only their outward surfaces, we smell only the smells, and... | |
 | Brian Lasater - History - 2008 - 600 pages
...utterly void of body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, heard, nor touched...We have ideas of his attributes, but what the real substance of anything is, we know not. We know Him only by his most wise and excellent contrivance of things, and final causes; we admire... | |
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. He is utterly void of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, nor touched ; nor ought... 
