Effence

/AM WHAT I AM, (or/PVILL BE WHAT I WILL BE), which may feem clofely to conjoin God's unqueftionable, neceffary Exificr. ce with his unfoarchable, boundlefs Effence.

An essay towards the improvement of reason; in the pursuit of learning and conduct of life 1707

Notwithftanding then the real fpirituality of our Ideas as to their abfolute Effence, they may however relatively be confiderM; and as to their reprefentative Being, be faid to be fome material, and fome immaterial, according to the different Nature or Quality of that tiling

An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for ... 1704

That Idea thea which reprefents a fpiritual Being to our Minds, is with us a fpiritual Idea, and fo that Idea which reprefents any thing material, how fpiritual foever it may otherwife be ajK to ihc reality of its abfolute Effence, is yet in our N J pre - i8i The Theory of Part 11.

An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for ... 1704

For whether mediate or, immediate 'tis all Knowledge whatever we clearly perceive, the mediatenefs or immediatenefs not belonginjz to the Effence, but to the fpecification and diftin -

An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for ... 1704

For other wifd, if the Effence of: the Mind were more evident than that oiF die Body, to what. purpofe Ihould we take fuch a; coBipafs, as to confult the Idea of Body, to know what are the Modifications of the Mind?

An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for ... 1704

'Effence and Life of Chriftian Religion lay in the bare

Vindiciæ veritatis : or, An occasional defence of the principles and practices of the people called Quakers ; in answer to a treatise of John Stillingfleet's, mis-called Seasonable advice concerning Quakerism, &c. 1703

For to Love GO D is to defire him as our Good. 1 do not deny but that the Afefolute goodnefs of GOD, the Natural Perfeftion of his Effence, is alfo the true Objcd of our Love 5 but not as Abfolute, but as Relative 5 that is, not as 'tis a Per - fedion in him, but as the fame may be a Perfeftion to us, as it makes us more happy by the Pleafure that we take either in the Contemplation, or in the Fruition of fo glorious and excellent a Being.

Letters Concerning the Love of God, Between the Author of the Proposal to the Ladies, and Mr ... 1705

And fince we Natu - rally refer our Ideas to the Objefts that are without us, thinking that we fee the Objefts when indeed we fee only the Ideas that repre - fent them, this makes that we refer our Senti - ments with them; and accordingly the Objefl:, befides its proper Nature or Effence, becomes invefted with a fenfible Quality, and we think we fee this or that Co/our in it, as plainly as we do the Objeft it felf.

An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for ... 1704