The improvement of the mind by Watts Isaac 1674-1748

Author:Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748 [Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Logic, Education, Self-culture
Publisher: London : Printed by W. Wilson for J. Bumpus, Holborn Bars ; Sharpe, King-Street, Covent-Garden ; Samms, Pall-Mall ; Warren, New Bond-Street ; Reilly, Lord-Street, Liverpool
Published: 1821-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

CAPACITY OF THE MINI). HJl

the worm, the snuil ami the oyster, to the least and to the dullest uniiiuitcd utoius which arc discovered to us by microscopes.

By this means we sliall be able to suppose what prodigious power angels, whether good or bad, must be furnished with, and prodigious knowledge, in order to oversee the realms of Persia and Grajcia of old, or if uny such superintend the afl'airs of Great Britain, France, Ireland, Germany, &e. in our days: what power and speed is necessary to destroy one hundred and eighty-five thousand armed men in one night in the Assyrian camp of Sennacherib, and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt in another, both which are attributed to an angel.

By these steps we shall ascend to form more just ideas of the knowledge and grandeur, the power and glory of the man Jesus Christ, who is intimately united to God, imd is one with him. Doubtless he is furnished with superior powers to all the angels in heaven, because he is employed in superior work, and appointed to be the Sovereign Lord of all the visible and invisible worlds. It is his human nature in which the Godhead dwells bodily, that is advanced to these honours, and to this empire; and perhaps there is little or nothing in the government of the kingdoms of nature and grace but what is transacted by the man Jesus, inhabited by the divine power and wisdom, and employed as a medium or conscious instrument of this extensive gubernation.

II. I proceed now to consider the next thing wherein the capacity or amplitude of the mind consists, and that is, when the mind is free to receive new and strange ideas and propositions upon just evidence without any great surprise or aversion. Those who confine themselves within the circle of their own hereditary ideas and opinions, and who never give p 2

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