and (possibly) water-gas is called water, and confounded with the species water, that is, the common base
plus
a given proportion of caloric. To the species water continuity and lability are essential.
Ib.
p. 50.
The words in the text are
in the past tense, the gates or doors having been shut; but that they were shut in the instant of Christ's entry, it says not: they might of course, if Christ had so pleased, have been insensibly opened, and shut in like manner again; and, if the words be observed, it will appear that St. John mentioned the shutting the doors in relation to the Apostles' fear, not to Christ's entering: he intended not (so far as appears) to declare a miracle.
Thank God! Here comes common sense.
Ib.
ss. xvi-xvii. pp. 71-73.
All most excellent; but O! that Taylor's stupendous wit, subtlety, acuteness, learning and inexhaustible copiousness of argumentation would but tell us what he himself, Dr. Jeremy Taylor, means by eating Christ's body by faith: his body, not his soul or Godhead. Eat a body by faith!