 For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes; and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice...  Locke's Conduct of the Understanding - Page 120by John Locke - 1881 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...for another, to gratify him? For certain it is that God worketh nothing in' nature_but Jjy seconcT causes: and if they would have it otherwise believed,...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial!'... | |
 | Nicholas Bishop - Christian life - 1871 - 408 pages
...choice in you were none ; nor justice would There should be joy for virtue, love for ill." — Dante. " God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes...the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But, further, it is an assured truth, of a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - Apparitions - 1871 - 468 pages
...if not * Bacon, whose mind ranged over all subjects, sublunary and spiritual, takes this ground : " God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes...have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture." — Advancement of Learning. And we find a distinguished divine of the last century asserting the credibility... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...can no longer be accepted as true ; ' for,' as Bacon says in his Advancement of Learning, ' certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second...the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.' In its lessons we should encourage the child to ask for explanations and to use its reasoning faculties.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1873 - 438 pages
...of his friends : Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ? For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...to gratify him f For certain it is that God V worketh nothing in nature but by second causes: and /N if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, tha(£ji little or superficial... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...Got/, as one man trill do for another, to gratify Him 7 For certain it is that God worketh nothing iu nature but by second causes ; and if they would have...imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing elso but to offer to the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...cause of the thunder, of which God is the First Cause. This is illustrated by Works, m. 267, 'Certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes. . . But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...his friends : " Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ? " For certain it is, that God worketh nothing in nature but by second...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Science - 1878 - 686 pages
...immediate action of God. Cp. Advancement of Learning, bk. i. (E. and S., vol. iii. p. 267): 'For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.' In the corresponding passage of the De Augmentis, bk. i. (E. and S., vol. ip 436), he speaks rather... | |
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