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  • Only then does Hooker turn to Scripture and the "supernaturall law" revealed within it, whose purpose is to engender the Christian virtues of faith, hope and charity.

    Iris Robinson, theological ignorance and the law of God Burke's Corner 2008

  • Only then does Hooker turn to Scripture and the "supernaturall law" revealed within it, whose purpose is to engender the Christian virtues of faith, hope and charity.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Burke's Corner 2008

  • Regarding the law of nature, Hooker reiterated Thomas' emphasis on the role of reason: "those lawes are investigable by reason without the helpe of revelation supernaturall and divine ... meaning thereby the law which humaine nature knoweth itselfe in reason ... comprehendeth all those thinges which men by the light of their naturall understanding evidently know".

    Iris Robinson, theological ignorance and the law of God Burke's Corner 2008

  • Regarding the law of nature, Hooker reiterated Thomas' emphasis on the role of reason: "those lawes are investigable by reason without the helpe of revelation supernaturall and divine ... meaning thereby the law which humaine nature knoweth itselfe in reason ... comprehendeth all those thinges which men by the light of their naturall understanding evidently know".

    Archive 2008-07-01 Burke's Corner 2008

  • And the Metaphisicke though it be in the second & abstract Notions, and therefore be counted supernaturall, yet doth hee indeed build upon the depth of nature.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • And the Metaphisicke though it be in the second & abstract Notions, and therefore be counted supernaturall, yet doth hee indeed build upon the depth of nature.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • - C3r - this felicity principally to be gotten by knowledge, and no knowledge to be so high or heavenly, as acquaintance with the stars; gave themselves to Astronomie: others perswading themselves to be Demygods, if they knew the causes of things, became naturall and supernaturall Philosophers.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • It is not surprising then to find a late sixteenth-century author defining medicine as "the searching out of the secretes of nature," a goal that was to be accomplished by resort to "mathematicall and supernaturall precepts, the exercise whereof is Mechanicall, and to be accomplished with labor."

    Alchemy 1968

  • Hooker, the soul's ascent through contemplation, when he wrote, in A Preparation to the Psalter (1619, p. 83), of the “divine raptures” of church music “that allure and dispose the soule unto heavenly meditations, and to the high supernaturall apprehension of spiritual things.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968

  • It is not surprising then to find a late sixteenth-century author defining medicine as “the searching out of the secretes of nature,” a goal that was to be accomplished by resort to “mathematicall and supernaturall precepts, the ex - ercise whereof is Mechanicall, and to be accomplished with labor.”

    ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968

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