 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pages
...finite intelligence, wherever found, can GOD be known as He essentially is. IB Hooker's words, — ' Our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him.' We do but attain to an imperfect knowledge of His Nature through the analogy between human things and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pages
...finite intelligence, wherever found, can GOD be known as He essentially is. In Hooker's words, — ' Our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can hnow Him.' We do but attain to an imperfect knowledge of His Nature through the analogy between human... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1887 - 592 pages
...admissions in which unawares they affirm sheer agnosticism. Richard Hooker says : " Though to know him be life, and joy to make mention of his name, yet...is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence is our silence, whereby we confess without confession that his glory is inexplicable, his greatness... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1888 - 452 pages
...known as He essentially is. — ' Canst thou by searching find out GOD 1' ... In Hooker's words, — ' Our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him' [EPI ii. 2.] We do but attain to an imperfect knowledge of His Nature through the analogy between human... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1888 - 452 pages
...the first time in my hearing) that grand passage in Hooker's 1st Book (c. ii. 2), beginning, — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of Man to wade far into the doings of the Most High." The words, — " Whom, although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name," he delivered... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1889 - 344 pages
...into the shallow nothingness of his nature. Dangerous it were, says the eloquent and judicious Hooker, for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings...of His name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can we know Him, and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence,... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1889 - 394 pages
...quite as strenuously as any Agnostic. " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man," says Hooker, "to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; Whom...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess... | |
 | Thomas Kelly Cheyne - 1891 - 568 pages
...Ewald calls the teaching of Philo a ' fundamental error ' (Geschichte, vi. 256). But Hooker nobly says, 'Whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name, yet . . . our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence' (Eccl. Pol. \. 2, 3). NOTE m , p. 290. A mysterious... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...Hooker in concluding an exhortation against the pride of the human intellect, where he remarks : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...Hooker in concluding an exhortation against the pride of the human intellect, where he remarks : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when... | |
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Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to • know be life, and joy to make mention of his name ; yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can... 
