of understanding and sense. An ample and most ordonnant conceptionist, to the tranquil empyrean of ideas he had not ascended. Of the passages cited from Scripture how few would bear a strict scrutiny; being either,
- divine appearances, Jehovah in human form; or
- the imagery of visions and all symbolic; or
- names of honor given to prophets, apostles, or bishops; or lastly,
- mere accommodations to popular notions!
Ib.
3. p. 267.
Since their fall, their practices have been the clean contrary unto those before mentioned. For being dispersed, some in the air, some on the earth, some in the water, some among the minerals, dens, and caves, that are under the earth; they have, by all means laboured to effect a universal rebellion against the laws, and as far as in them lieth, utter destruction of the works of God.
Childish; but the childishness of the age, without which neither Hooker nor Luther could have acted on their contemporaries with the intense and beneficent energy with which, they (God be praised!) did act.
Ib.
p. 268.
Thus much therefore may suffice for angels, the next unto whom in degree are men.
St. Augustine well remarks that only three distinct