it as untrue and dangerous. So far is it from being true, that on the
contrary, the Trinity is the only form in which an idea of God is
possible, unless indeed it be a Spinosistic or World-God.


Ib. c. iv. 1. p. 264.

But now that we may lift up our eyes (as it were) from the footstool
to the throne of God, and leaving these natural, consider a little the
state of heavenly and divine, creatures: touching angels which are
spirits immaterial and intellectual, &c.

All this disquisition on the angels confirms my remark that our
admirable Hooker was a giant of the race Aristotle 'versus' Plato.
Hooker was truly judicious,--the consummate 'synthesis' 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,

1. divine appearances, Jehovah in human form; or
2. the imagery of visions and all symbolic; or
3. 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