Maxioms by Sir Thomas Browne
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but read more
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the
invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in
equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in
that invisible fabric.
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever
hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever
hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
God is like a skilful Geometrician.
God is like a skilful Geometrician.
Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult read more
Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. Some believe the better for seeing Christ's Sepulchre, and when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not the miracle. Now contrarily I bless myself, and am thankful that I lived not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor His Disciples; I would not have been one of those Israelites that passed the Red Sea, nor one of Christ's patients, on whom He wrought His wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not.
