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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 25, cont. (p.72) |
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I see dispassioned men are subject to the like ignorances. For divers mindes out of the same thing often draw contrary con- clusions, as Augustine thought devout Antho- ny to be therefore full of the holy Ghost, be- cause not being able to read, he could say the whole Bible, and interpret it; and Thyreus the Jesuit for the same reason doth thinke all the Anabaptists to be possessed. And as often out of contrary things men draw one conclusion. As to the Roman Church, magnificence and splendor hath ever been an argument of Gods favour, and poverty & affliction, to the Greek. Out of this variety of mindes it proceeds, that though our souls would goe to one end, Heaven, and all our bodies must go to one end, the earth: yet our third part, the minde, which is our naturall guide here, choses to every man a severall way: scarce any man likes what another doth, nor advisedly, that which himself. But Sir, I am beyond my purpose; I mean to write a Letter, and I am fallen into a discourse, and I do not only [CW: take] |
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