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" God ; laying before us two books or volumes to study, if we will be secured from error; first the scriptures, revealing the will of God, and then the creatures expressing his power ; whereof the latter is a key unto the former : not only opening our understanding... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 46
by Francis Bacon - 1826
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The Advancement of Learning, Book I, Book 1

Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...Whereof the latter is a key unto the former, not only opening our understanding to conceive the true sense of the Scriptures, by the general notions of...a due meditation of the omnipotency of God, which 10 is chiefly signed and engraven upon his works. Thus much therefore for divine testimony and evidence...
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The Advancement of Learning, Book I, Book 1

Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...chiefly opening our belief, in drawing us into a due meditation of the omnipotency of God, which 10 is chiefly signed and engraven upon his works. Thus...concerning the true dignity and value of learning. ; • 1 e As for human proofs, it is so large a field, as, in a discourse of this nature and brevity,...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

1905 - 958 pages
...whereof the later is "a key unto the former ; not only opening our understanding to conceive the true sense of the Scriptures, by the general notions of...concerning the true dignity and value of learning. ft. As for human proofs, it is so large a field, as in a discourse of this nature and brevity it is...
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The Cryptography of Shakespeare: Part one

Walter Arensberg - 1922 - 314 pages
...to conceal in nature is his divine form, or signature, as may be inferred from Bacon's reference to "the omnipotency of God, which is chiefly signed and engraven upon his works." A similar suggestion as to the identity of the form of a work and a signature appears in the following...
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
...whereof the latter is a key unto the former: not only opening our understanding to conceive the true sense of the Scriptures, by the general notions of...concerning the true dignity and value of Learning. The next passage gives Bacon's ever-recurrent theme that all of the arts are forms of applied knowledge...
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God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter Between Christianity and ...

David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers - 1986 - 538 pages
...in nature. It will also elicit understanding of God's own words, "understanding to conceive the true sense of the scriptures, by the general notions of reason and rules of speech." For Bacon the book of God's works is "a key" to the book of God's word; students of nature may therefore...
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The Trinitarian Theology of Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675-1729): Context, Sources ...

Thomas C. Pfizenmaier - 1997 - 256 pages
...whereof the latter is a key unto the former; not only opening our understanding to conceive the true sense of the Scriptures, by the general notions of...but chiefly opening our belief, in drawing us into due meditation of the omnipotency of God which is chiefly signed and engraven upon his works.17 Here...
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Selected Philosophical Works

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...unto the former, not only opening our understanding to conceive the true sense of the Scriptures by general notions of reason and rules of speech; but...belief in drawing us into a due meditation of the omnipotence of God, which is chiefly signed and engraved upon his works. Thus much, therefore, for...
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Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth ...

Desiree Hellegers - 2000 - 250 pages
...conceive the true sense of the Scriptures . . . but chiefly opening our belief, in drawing us into due meditation of the omnipotency of God, which is chiefly signed and engraven upon his works.*0 His program for the reform of natural philosophy, Bacon suggests, will provide a key to the...
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cosmology and Biological Evolution

Hilary D. Regan, Mark William Worthing - 2002 - 234 pages
...whereof the latter is a key unto the former: not only opening our understanding to conceive the true sense of the Scriptures, by the general notions of...which is chiefly signed and engraven upon his works. This much therefore for 14. Willim Ashworth, 'Catholicism and Early Modern Science', in God and Nature,...
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