The Key to Knowledge to the Holy Scriptures; By the Use of Which a True System of Theology Is Restored, and the Word of God With Clearness and Certainty Explained - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1838. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... cessary for God to be a substance and form, in order to be a real being, and also that he may be apprehended by the thought of man, and be loved by him, it is also evident that if God were not substance and form, the end of creation would have failed; for we have acknowledged that the universe was created with a view to man, in order that this creature, the only one endowed with liberty, might return to the Creator, the love which he received from him. But is it indispensable that the Divinity should have the human form? I have already said that the universe, in the forms of the objects which compose it, should offer images of the first Form; (Forme-type:) and that of all forms, the form of man approached the nearest to perfection. These assertions are proved by the observations of science. When we examine the chain of beings, do we not find that man is the first link, and that all the succeeding links are no more than successive alterations of the first? You are doubtless acquainted with that series of pictures which presents scarcely a perceptible difference between them, when one ol them is compared with that which precedes or that which follows, and yet the first represents the Apollo of Belvidere, and the last a frog. What the painter has done for a frog, he could have done for any other animal, whether increasing or diminishing the number of his pictures. The type of man, then, is found in every animal, in whatever state of degradation it may be; and it is thus, because every creature is an image, more or less imperfect, of the Prototype, (Type-Createur.) This successive degradation of the human forrn in the chain of beings, is sufficient then to resolve the question. It would, moreover, be absurd, after having recognized this successive degradation, to su...