Our force is so far from being able to comprehend the divine height, t… — Essays
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Our force is so far from being able to comprehend the divine height, that, of the works of our Creator, those best bear his mark, and are with better title his, which we the least understand. To meet with an incredible thing is an occasion to Christians to believe; and it is so much the more according to reason, by how much it is against human reason. If it were according to reason, it would be no more a miracle; and if it were according to example, it would be no longer a singular thing. _Melius scitur Deus nesdendo_: "God is better known by not knowing him," says St. Austin: and Tacitus, _Sanctius est ac reverentius de actis Deorum credere, quam scire_; "it is more holy and reverent to believe the works of God than to know them;" and Plato thinks there is something of impiety in inquiring too curiously into God, the world, and the first causes of things: _Atque illum quidem parentem hu
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