| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8149 |
| QUOTATION: | His whole works are a heap of mis-shapen errors, and absurd paradoxes, vented with the confidence of a juggler, the brags of a mountebank, and the authority of some Pythagoras, or third Cato, lately dropped down from heaven. Thus we have seen how the obbian principles do destroy the existence, the simplicity, the ubiquity, the eternity, and infiniteness of God, the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, the hypostatical union, the kingly, sacerdotal, and prophetical office of Christ, the being and operation of the Holy Ghost, heaven, hell, angels, devils, the immortality of the soul, the Catholic and all national churches; the holy Scriptures, holy orders, the holy sacrament, the whole frame of religion, and the worship of God; the laws of nature, the reality of goodness, justice, piety, honesty, conscience, and all that is sacred. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Bramhall (1598–1663), British-Irish theologian. Quoted in English Works, “An Answer to Dr. Bramhall,” vol. 4, p. 382, Thomas Hobbes, ed. Molesworth (1839-1845).
Judgment about Hobbes’s philosophy. |
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