only self-like, having nothing in common |
with any creature, otherwise than as in |
shadow and trope. Therefore attend his |
will as himself openeth it, and give unto |
faith that which unto faith belongeth{16}; | 16. St. Matthew 22, 21:
for more worthy it is to believe than to | Authorized Version: ... Then saith he
think or know, considering that in | unto them, Render therefore unto
knowledge (as we now are capable of it) | Caesar the things which are Caesar's;
the mind suffereth from inferior natures; | and unto God the things that are
but in all belief it suffereth from a | God's.
spirit which it holdeth superior and |
more authorised than itself.{17} | 17. cf. A.L. Sp. III,478,1.8 sq. (D.A.
| Sp. I, 830, I. 24 seq.
To conclude, the prejudice hath been |
infinite that both divine and human |
knowledge hath received by the |
intermingling and tempering of the one |
with the other; as that which hath filled |
the one full of heresies, and the other |
full of speculative fictions and | 18. similarly: A.L. Sp.III, 350,I.24
Vanities{18}. | seq. (D.A. Sp. I, 545, I.35 swq.)
| John Channing Briggs (""Bacon's
But now there are again which in a | science and religion", in: THE
contrary extremity to those which give to | CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BACON, ed. by
contemplation an over-large scope, do | Markku Peltonen, Cambridge 1996)
offer too great a restraint to natural and | comments on Bacon's separation of
lawful knowledge, being unjustly jealous | divinity and natural philosophy
that every reach and depth of knowledge | (quotations in Briggs' text are from
wherewith their conceits have not been | THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING):
acquainted, should be too high an |