Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici : Letter to a friend, &c. and Christian morals / edited by W.A. Greenhill.

  • Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici : Letter to a friend, &c. and Christian morals / edited by W.A. Greenhill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    §6. Disputes in Religion wisely avoided. Fantasies in Di- vinity dangerous, as giving entrance to errors; whereof our Physician confesseth to have had two or three :—§ 7. 1st, that the Soul might, in some sort, perish, and rise again with the body ; 2d, that all men should finally be saved ; 3d, that we might pray for the Dead :—but these he suffered not to grow into Heresies. —§ 8. Of the manifold nature of schism, ever multiplying itself.—§9. Mysteries in Divinity only to be ap- proached in Faith.—§10. The armour of a Christian.— §11. 1. The Eternity of God.—§ r2. Of the Holy Trinity. The visible World a picture of the invisible.—§ 13. 2. The Wisdom of God. No danger in attempting to trace the hand of God in His works.—§ 14. Every essence hath its final Cause. —§ 15. Nature doeth nothing in vain.—§ 16. Nature a Bible open to all.—§17. Providence often falsely called Fortune.— § 18. The term Fortune used in a relative sense.—§ 19. Danger of confounding the First with second causes. Passion, Reason, Faith.—§20. Atheism can hardly exist.—§21. Inconsistency of unbelief. Many questions may be raised not worthy of solution;—§22. others, which are often raised, may be easily solved; others may admit a free dispute; and others are in- consequent.—§23. The Bible the best of books.—§24. “Of making many books there is no end.”—§25. Obstinacy of the Jews, and want of constancy among Christians. The blood of Martyrs the seed of the Church.—§26. Not all are Martyrs who suffer in matters of Religion.—§ 27, Of Miracles. All Miracles equally easy to God.- § 28. All relations of Miracles not to be received alike.-—§29. Oracles.—§ 30. Witchcraft.— §31. Philosophy distinguished from Magic. The suggestions of Angels.—§32. The Spirit of God diffused throughout the World.—§33. Of guardian and attendant Spirits.—§34. Man a Microcosm, partaking of the nature of all created essences. —§ 35. Of Creation.—§36. Man the masterpiece of Creation. —§ 37- Of the perishable body.—§38. Death hath no terrors for a Christian.—§ 39. Man hath three separate States of existence : 1. in the womb ; 2. in this world ; 3. in the next.— § 40. Death to be ashamed of rather than feared.—§41. Post- humous fame not to be desired.—§42. Length of days not to be prayed for, as age doth but increase our vices.—§ 43. A special Providence preserves our lives.—§ 44. Though death is