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1 I, I | hath given sight, and a power to receive them by the eyes 2 I, II | Because God, who has the power of eternal life and death, 3 I, II | rewards and punishments and power enough to call to account 4 I, II | escape the knowledge or power of the law-maker, or the 5 I, II | if they may, by any human power—such as the will of our 6 I, II | folk; and custom, a greater power than nature, seldom failing 7 I, III | absolute and irresistible power set it on upon the mind,— 8 I, III | extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all 9 I, III | upon trust, misemploy their power of assent, by lazily enslaving 10 I, III | them. Nor is it a small power it gives one man over another, 11 II, I | something in us that has a power to think. But whether that 12 II, I | knowledge, is not in its own power. For the objects of our 13 II, II | simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and 14 II, II | ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, 15 II, II | visible things; wherein his power, however managed by art 16 II, II | suitable to the wisdom and power of the Maker. I have here 17 II, VI | Volition, or Willing.~The power of thinking is called the 18 II, VI | the Understanding, and the power of volition is called the 19 II, VII | opposite, pain, or uneasiness; power; existence; unity.~2. Mix 20 II, VII | being, having given us the power over several parts of our 21 II, VII | body: having also given a power to our minds, in several 22 II, VII | idea of unity.~8. Idea of power. Power also is another of 23 II, VII | unity.~8. Idea of power. Power also is another of those 24 II, VII | these ways get the idea of power.~9. Idea of succession. 25 II, VIII | that I call idea; and the power to produce any idea in our 26 II, VIII | the subject wherein that power is. Thus a snowball having 27 II, VIII | Thus a snowball having the power to produce in us the ideas 28 II, VIII | white, cold, and round,—the power to produce those ideas in 29 II, VIII | the objects themselves but power to produce various sensations 30 II, VIII | secondary qualities. For the power in fire to produce a new 31 II, VIII | quality in fire, as the power it has to produce in me 32 II, VIII | denominate from them, only a power to produce those sensations 33 II, VIII | motion of its parts, has a power to produce the sensations 34 II, VIII | a texture that hath the power to produce such a sensation 35 II, VIII | qualities.~Secondly, The power that is in any body, by 36 II, VIII | qualities.~Thirdly, The power that is in any body, by 37 II, VIII | before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire 38 II, VIII | on it as a bare effect of power. For, through receiving 39 II, VIII | to be an effect of bare power, and not the communication 40 II, X | way of retention is, the power to revive again in our minds 41 II, X | this,—that the mind has a power in many cases to revive 42 II, XI | objects themselves. The other power of comparing, which may 43 II, XI | be positive in,—that the power of abstracting is not at 44 II, XII | mind, wherein it exerts its power over its simple ideas, are 45 II, XII | are made. This shows man’s power, and its ways of operation, 46 II, XII | being such as he has no power over, either to make or 47 II, XII | together, so the mind has a power to consider several of them 48 II, XII | ideas, the mind has great power in varying and multiplying 49 II, XII | without; it can, by its own power, put together those ideas 50 II, XIII | much as they please. The power of repeating or doubling 51 II, XIII | that the mind has in its power, by varying the idea of 52 II, XIII | figures. For the mind having a power to repeat the idea of any 53 II, XIII | figures that the mind has a power to make, and thereby to 54 II, XIII | suppose him alive, with such a power of moving the parts of his 55 II, XIII | infinite alike.~22. The power of annihilation proves a 56 II, XIII | infinite, but must also deny a power in God to annihilate any 57 II, XIII | infinite, and take from God a power to annihilate any particle 58 II, XIV | can.~15. The extent of our power over the succession of our 59 II, XIV | All that is in a man’s power in this case, I think, is 60 II, XV | not in his knowledge or power all past and future things: 61 II, XV | exceed man in knowledge and power, yet are no more than the 62 II, XV | infinite knowledge and infinite power, He sees all things, past 63 II, XVI | lessens not one jot the power of adding to it, or brings 64 II, XVII | more figuratively to his power, wisdom, and goodness, and 65 II, XVII | acts or objects of God’s power, wisdom, and goodness, which 66 II, XVII | at first setting out: the power of enlarging his idea of 67 II, XVII | of duration. As, by the power we find in ourselves of 68 II, XVII | infinity be got from the power we observe in ourselves 69 II, XVII | end of number, i.e. the power still of adding more.~11. 70 II, XVII | infinity whereof lies only in a power still of adding any combination 71 II, XVII | space and duration, which power leaves always to the mind 72 II, XVII | idea of infinite, only by a power we find we have of still 73 II, XVII | other idea of it, but of the power of enlarging the one and 74 II, XVIII | above instanced in, as also power and thinking, have been 75 II, XX | when we have it so in our power that we can use it when 76 II, XXI | Chapter XXI~Of Power ~1. This idea how got. The 77 II, XXI | that idea which we call power. Thus we say, Fire has a 78 II, XXI | Thus we say, Fire has a power to melt gold, i.e. to destroy 79 II, XXI | it fluid; and gold has a power to be melted; that the sun 80 II, XXI | melted; that the sun has a power to blanch wax, and wax a 81 II, XXI | to blanch wax, and wax a power to be blanched by the sun, 82 II, XXI | and the like cases, the power we consider is in reference 83 II, XXI | of some of its ideas.~2. Power, active and passive. Power 84 II, XXI | Power, active and passive. Power thus considered is two-fold, 85 II, XXI | active, and the other passive power. Whether matter be not wholly 86 II, XXI | wholly destitute of active power, as its author, God, is 87 II, XXI | truly above all passive power; and whether the intermediate 88 II, XXI | both active and passive power, may be worth consideration. 89 II, XXI | search into the original of power, but how we come by the 90 II, XXI | clearest idea of active power.~3. Power includes relation. 91 II, XXI | idea of active power.~3. Power includes relation. I confess 92 II, XXI | includes relation. I confess power includes in it some kind 93 II, XXI | them. Our idea therefore of power, I think, may well have 94 II, XXI | clearest idea of active power had from spirit. We are 95 II, XXI | with the idea of passive power by almost all sorts of sensible 96 II, XXI | change. Nor have we of active power (which is the more proper 97 II, XXI | signification of the word power) fewer instances. Since 98 II, XXI | the mind must collect a power somewhere able to make that 99 II, XXI | distinct an idea of active power, as we have from reflection 100 II, XXI | operations of our minds. For all power relating to action, and 101 II, XXI | us no idea of any active power to move; and when it is 102 II, XXI | obscure idea of an active power of moving in body, whilst 103 II, XXI | but a very obscure idea of power which reaches not the production 104 II, XXI | imperfect obscure idea of active power; since they afford us not 105 II, XXI | idea in themselves of the power to begin any action, either 106 II, XXI | thinks he has a clear idea of power, it serves as well to my 107 II, XXI | receive its idea of active power clearer from reflection 108 II, XXI | That we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue 109 II, XXI | particular action. This power which the mind has thus 110 II, XXI | actual exercise of that power, by directing any particular 111 II, XXI | called involuntary. The power of perception is that which 112 II, XXI | understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter 113 II, XXI | think, finds in himself a power to begin or forbear, continue 114 II, XXI | consideration of the extent of this power of the mind over the actions 115 II, XXI | motion; so far as a man has power to think or not to think, 116 II, XXI | are not equally in a man’s power; wherever doing or not doing 117 II, XXI | liberty is, the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear 118 II, XXI | either of them is not in the power of the agent to be produced 119 II, XXI | motion not being in his power, the stop or cessation of 120 II, XXI | which it is not in his power, by volition or the direction 121 II, XXI | locked fast in, beyond his power to get out: he awakes, and 122 II, XXI | to the person having the power of doing, or forbearing 123 II, XXI | liberty reaches as far as that power, and no farther. For wherever 124 II, XXI | restraint comes to check that power, or compulsion takes away 125 II, XXI | which it is not in his power by any thought or volition 126 II, XXI | so much, he cannot by any power of his mind stop their motion, ( 127 II, XXI | one is such, that we have power to take it up, or lay it 128 II, XXI | as the mind regains the power to stop or continue, begin 129 II, XXI | is wholly wanting, or the power to act or forbear according 130 II, XXI | liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, 131 II, XXI | will, which is also but a power.~15. Volition. Such is the 132 II, XXI | anything more in effect than a power; the power of the mind to 133 II, XXI | effect than a power; the power of the mind to determine 134 II, XXI | that whatever agent has a power to think on its own actions, 135 II, XXI | then, is nothing but such a power. Liberty, on the other side, 136 II, XXI | on the other side, is the power a man has to do or forbear 137 II, XXI | will is nothing but one power or ability, and freedom 138 II, XXI | ability, and freedom another power or ability so that, to ask, 139 II, XXI | freedom, is to ask whether one power has another power, one ability 140 II, XXI | whether one power has another power, one ability another ability; 141 II, XXI | of speech be applied to power, it may be attributed to 142 II, XXI | may be attributed to the power that is in a man to produce, 143 II, XXI | which men have given to this power called the will, and whereby 144 II, XXI | signifies nothing but a power or ability to prefer or 145 II, XXI | intelligible to say that the power of speaking directs the 146 II, XXI | of speaking directs the power of singing, or the power 147 II, XXI | power of singing, or the power of singing obeys or disobeys 148 II, XXI | singing obeys or disobeys the power of speaking.~18. This way 149 II, XXI | as he thinks fit: but the power to do one action is not 150 II, XXI | is not operated on by the power of doing another action. 151 II, XXI | another action. For the power of thinking operates not 152 II, XXI | thinking operates not on the power of choosing, nor the power 153 II, XXI | power of choosing, nor the power of choosing on the power 154 II, XXI | power of choosing on the power of thinking; no more than 155 II, XXI | thinking; no more than the power of dancing operates on the 156 II, XXI | dancing operates on the power of singing, or the power 157 II, XXI | power of singing, or the power of singing on the power 158 II, XXI | power of singing on the power of dancing, as any one who 159 II, XXI | volition, or exercising the power a man has to choose; or 160 II, XXI | all these it is not one power that operates on another: 161 II, XXI | it is the agent that has power, or is able to do. For powers 162 II, XXI | and that which has the power or not the power to operate, 163 II, XXI | has the power or not the power to operate, is that alone 164 II, XXI | is not free, and not the power itself For freedom, or not 165 II, XXI | but what has or has not a power to act.~20. Liberty belongs 166 II, XXI | able to operate that has no power to operate. Nor do I deny 167 II, XXI | For faculty, ability, and power, I think, are but different 168 II, XXI | peace: and as far as this power reaches, of acting or not 169 II, XXI | freer, than to have the power to do what he will? And 170 II, XXI | within the reach of such a power in him, a man seems as free 171 II, XXI | freedom consisting in a power of acting or not acting, 172 II, XXI | when any action in his power is once proposed to his 173 II, XXI | liberty consisting in a power to act or not to act; which, 174 II, XXI | of an action in a man’s power, which is once so proposed 175 II, XXI | being of anything in its power, which it has once considered 176 II, XXI | to will, anything in his power that he once considers of: 177 II, XXI | liberty consisting in a power to act or to forbear acting, 178 II, XXI | sitting still has not a power to remove himself, he is 179 II, XXI | all other actions in our power so proposed, which are the 180 II, XXI | respect of willing, has not a power to act or not to act, wherein 181 II, XXI | in that case, has not a power to forbear willing; it cannot 182 II, XXI | for, when an action in his power is proposed to his thoughts, 183 II, XXI | sea, not because he has a power to do the contrary action, 184 II, XXI | therefore free, because he has a power to leap or not to leap. 185 II, XXI | action is no longer in his power. He that is a close prisoner 186 II, XXI | and thereby exerting its power to produce it. To avoid 187 II, XXI | will being nothing but a power in the mind to direct the 188 II, XXI | which determines the general power of directing, to this or 189 II, XXI | agent itself exercising the power it has that particular way. 190 II, XXI | to determine its general power of directing, to this or 191 II, XXI | shall see that the will or power of volition is conversant 192 II, XXI | which it takes to be in its power. This, well considered, 193 II, XXI | the will, which is but the power of volition, is much more 194 II, XXI | again: for the will having a power over, and directing the 195 II, XXI | evident, that the will, or power of setting us upon one action 196 II, XXI | For, the will being the power of directing our operative 197 II, XXI | but some action in our power, it is there the will terminates, 198 II, XXI | uneasiness (as itch after honour, power, or riches, &c.) which acquired 199 II, XXI | good proposed, it is in our power to raise our desires in 200 II, XXI | from in this world.~48. The power to suspend the prosecution 201 II, XXI | evident in experience, a power to suspend the execution 202 II, XXI | prevent this, we have a power to suspend the prosecution 203 II, XXI | in him, if he wanted that power, if he were deprived of 204 II, XXI | perfection, that desire, or the power of preferring, should be 205 II, XXI | determined by good, as that the power of acting should be determined 206 II, XXI | felicity, we are endowed with a power to suspend any particular 207 II, XXI | guide: and he that has a power to act or not to act, according 208 II, XXI | determination abridges not that power wherein liberty consists. 209 II, XXI | in particular cases.~53. Power to suspend. This is the 210 II, XXI | and all that is in our power; and indeed all that needs. 211 II, XXI | mature examination, is in our power; experience showing us, 212 II, XXI | and what was not in our power, will judge as a kind and 213 II, XXI | much this is in every one’s power, by making resolutions to 214 II, XXI | exist no more for ever.~57. Power to suspend volition explains 215 II, XXI | is plain, consists in a power to do, or not to do; to 216 II, XXI | his own election. He had a power to suspend his determination; 217 II, XXI | come from causes not in our power; such as are often the pains 218 II, XXI | hereafter, actions in his power will have their preference, 219 II, XXI | leave out anything in his power that would tend to his satisfaction, 220 II, XXI | Whether it be in a man’s power to change the pleasantness 221 II, XXI | do but what is in their power. A due consideration will 222 II, XXI | neglect of what is in their power, whereby men mislead themselves. 223 II, XXI | neglect of what is in their power, may put men out of their 224 II, XXI | short, is this: Liberty is a power to act or not to act, according 225 II, XXI | according as the mind directs. A power to direct the operative 226 II, XXI | it rest; that operative power is indifferent to move or 227 II, XXI | determines that operative power to rest: I am yet free, 228 II, XXI | indifferency of that my operative power to act, or not to act, still 229 II, XXI | act, still remains; the power of moving my hand is not 230 II, XXI | the indifferency of that power to act, or not to act, is 231 II, XXI | indifferency of that operative power is gone, and with it my 232 II, XXI | 74. Active and passive power, in motions and in thinking. 233 II, XXI | necessity, in this Chapter of Power, came naturally in my way. 234 II, XXI | clearer conceptions about power, if we make our thoughts 235 II, XXI | external agent; and such power is not properly an active 236 II, XXI | is not properly an active power, but a mere passive capacity 237 II, XXI | itself into action by its own power, and this is properly active 238 II, XXI | this is properly active power. Whatsoever modification 239 II, XXI | agent. So that the active power of motion is in no substance 240 II, XXI | likewise in thinking, a power to receive ideas or thoughts 241 II, XXI | external substance is called a power of thinking: but this is 242 II, XXI | but this is but a passive power, or capacity. But to be 243 II, XXI | thinks fit, this is an active power. This reflection may be 244 II, XXI | because of my own choice, by a power within myself, I put myself 245 II, XXI | is the product of active power.~75. Summary of our original 246 II, XXI | Solidity, Mobility, or the power of being moved; which by 247 II, XXI | body: Perceptivity, or the power of perception, or thinking; 248 II, XXI | thinking; Motivity, or the power of moving: which by reflection 249 II, XXI | parts, whereby they have the power to produce in us the ideas 250 II, XXI | that gold or saffron has a power to produce in us the idea 251 II, XXII | often exercises an active power in making these several 252 II, XXII | 10. Motion, thinking, and power have been most modified. 253 II, XXII | in them all action,) and power, from whence these actions 254 II, XXII | of thinking, motion, and power, have been those which have 255 II, XXII | actions: v.g. boldness is the power to speak or do what we intend, 256 II, XXII | peculiar name, parrhesia: which power or ability in man of doing 257 II, XXII | signify but the effect. Power being the source from whence 258 II, XXII | are, when they exert this power into act, are called causes, 259 II, XXII | by the exerting of that power, are called effects. The 260 II, XXII | the subject exerting that power, action; but in the subject 261 II, XXII | other ideas than those of power and action. I think I shall 262 II, XXII | remark here that, though power and action make the greatest 263 II, XXIII | hardness, friability, and power to draw iron, we say, are 264 II, XXIII | knowing, doubting, and a power of moving, &c., do subsist, 265 II, XXIII | amongst them. Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of 266 II, XXIII | call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part 267 II, XXIII | the knowledge of another power in fire, which it has to 268 II, XXIII | alteration a loadstone has the power to make in the minute particles 269 II, XXIII | should have no notion of any power it had at all to operate 270 II, XXIII | bodies we daily handle have a power to use in one another, which 271 II, XXIII | to be only powers; as the power of being melted, but of 272 II, XXIII | actually in gold, but is a power in gold to produce that 273 II, XXIII | and magnify the wisdom, power, and goodness of their Author. 274 II, XXIII | allow that the infinite power and wisdom of God may frame 275 II, XXIII | of a certain size, with a power of swimming in the water, 276 II, XXIII | understanding, willing, knowing, and power of beginning motion, &c., 277 II, XXIII | perceiving, liberty, and power of moving themselves and 278 II, XXIII | thinking and willing, or the power of moving or quieting corporeal 279 II, XXIII | coherent solid parts, and a power of being moved, joined with 280 II, XXIII | separable, parts, and a power of communicating motion 281 II, XXIII | thinking, and will, or a power of putting body into motion 282 II, XXIII | substance that thinks, and has a power of exciting motion in body, 283 II, XXIII | we have of body is, the power of communication of motion 284 II, XXIII | impulse; and of our souls, the power of exciting motion by thought. 285 II, XXIII | if we consider the active power of moving, or, as I may 286 II, XXIII | afford us the idea of a power in the one to move the other, 287 II, XXIII | affords us ideas of an active power of moving of bodies; and 288 II, XXIII | consideration, whether active power be not the proper attribute 289 II, XXIII | of spirits, and passive power of matter. Hence may be 290 II, XXIII | and that the one hath a power to move body by impulse, 291 II, XXIII | spirit, viz. thinking, and a power of action; i.e. a power 292 II, XXIII | power of action; i.e. a power of beginning or stopping 293 II, XXIII | ourselves knowledge, and the power of voluntary motion, as 294 II, XXIII | duration; of knowledge and power; of pleasure and happiness; 295 II, XXIII | that the mind has such a power of enlarging some of its 296 II, XXIII | same may also be done of power, till we come to that we 297 II, XXIII | wherein we ascribe existence, power, wisdom, and all other perfections ( 298 II, XXIII | our ideas of existence, power, knowledge, &c., makes that 299 II, XXIII | of existence, knowledge, power, happiness, &c., infinite 300 II, XXIII | degrees of their knowledge, power, duration, happiness, &c. 301 II, XXIII | suppose they have such a power.~37. Recapitulation. And 302 II, XXIV | particulars.~2. Made by the power of composing in the mind. 303 II, XXIV | substances the mind makes, by its power of composition, and uniting 304 II, XXVI | relative denominations of power, compared to some ideas 305 II, XXVI | time of greater or less power. Thus, when we say a weak 306 II, XXVI | not so much strength or power to move as usually men have, 307 II, XXVI | disproportion there is in the power of God and the creatures. 308 II, XXVII | and lose it beyond the power of ever retrieving it again: 309 II, XXVIII| comes by a moral right, power, or obligation to do something. 310 II, XXVIII| general is one that hath power to command an army; and 311 II, XXVIII| either of them hath a certain power over some others, and so 312 II, XXVIII| on us, from the will and power of the law-maker; which 313 II, XXVIII| if he had it not in his power to reward the compliance 314 II, XXVIII| which is best: and he has power to enforce it by rewards 315 II, XXVIII| hand, and suitable to the power that makes it: which is 316 II, XXVIII| according to its laws, and has power to take away life, liberty, 317 II, XXVIII| yet they retain still the power of thinking well or ill, 318 II, XXVIII| and essential to a law, a power to enforce it: I think I 319 II, XXVIII| made by the legislative power of the country, I call it 320 II, XXIX | they both being only in a power still of increasing the 321 II, XXXI | we are sure there is a power in sugar to produce those 322 II, XXXI | sensation answering the power that operates on any of 323 II, XXXI | of the mind, which has no power to produce any simple idea); 324 II, XXXI | ought only to answer that power: and so all simple ideas 325 II, XXXI | whereby is signified the power of producing in us the idea 326 II, XXXI | in the fire, more than a power to excite these ideas in 327 II, XXXI | express nothing but the power in things to produce in 328 II, XXXI | but be the effect of that power. So the paper I write on, 329 II, XXXI | paper I write on, having the power in the light (I speak according 330 II, XXXI | be the effect of such a power in something without the 331 II, XXXI | since the mind has not the power to produce any such idea 332 II, XXXI | but the effect of such a power, that simple idea is real 333 II, XXXI | being the effect of that power which is in the paper to 334 II, XXXI | perfectly adequate to that power; or else that power would 335 II, XXXI | that power; or else that power would produce a different 336 II, XXXII | us to receive, and given power to external objects to produce 337 II, XXXII | mind only; and only the power of producing it by the texture 338 II, XXXII | as it is, suitable to the power that produced it, and which 339 II, XXXII | the same complex idea the power of barking like a dog: which 340 II, XXXII | mind, (which idea he has a power to call by what name he 341 II, XXXIII| mean when he is under the power of an unruly passion, but 342 II, XXXIII| lasts, it is not in the power of reason to help us, and 343 II, XXXIII| allowed to be so, has not power over, nor is able against 344 III, II | pleases, that no one hath the power to make others have the 345 III, II | in the possession of that power which ruled the world, acknowledged 346 III, III | idea. But it is beyond the power of human capacity to frame 347 III, IV | The act of a being in power, as far forth as in power”; 348 III, IV | power, as far forth as in power”; which would puzzle any 349 III, IV | simple ones, it is in the power of words, standing for the 350 III, V | which sort the mind has no power to make any one, but only 351 III, VI | of existence, knowledge, power and pleasure—each of which 352 III, VI | existence, knowledge, will, power, and motion, &c., being 353 III, VI | we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, 354 III, VI | let any one say, that the power of propagation in animals 355 III, VI | faculties, and thereby the same power that he had, to make what 356 III, VIII | as has been shown, has a power to abstract its ideas, and 357 III, VIII | which is nothing but a power to produce the idea of whiteness 358 III, VIII | essence of rationality, i.e. a power of reasoning.~2. They show 359 III, IX | men still having the same power, multiplied in infinitum. 360 III, IX | other bodies, which have a power to operate differently upon 361 IV, I | first view, by its natural power of perception and distinction. 362 IV, I | this, that fixedness, or a power to remain in the fire unconsumed, 363 IV, III | matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think, or 364 IV, III | been pleased to give that power, which cannot be in any 365 IV, III | supreme Being, infinite in power, goodness, and wisdom, whose 366 IV, III | desire of esteem, riches, or power makes men espouse the well-endowed 367 IV, III | they can get into their power, without permitting them 368 IV, III | impossible for the breath or power of man wholly to extinguish.~ 369 IV, III | will consider the infinite power, wisdom, and goodness of 370 IV, III | separable from them by any power whatsoever. And in these 371 IV, III | depend on any arbitrary power, which of choice made it 372 IV, IV | exactly answering that power which is in any body to 373 IV, V | of church and faith, of power and right, of obstructions 374 IV, VI | constitution on which sensation, power of motion, and reasoning, 375 IV, VIII | body, sense, and motion, or power of sensation and moving, 376 IV, X | source and original of all power; and so this eternal Being 377 IV, X | are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.” Though our 378 IV, X | as is evident, having not power to produce motion in itself. 379 IV, X | still be as far beyond the power of motion and matter to 380 IV, X | as matter is beyond the power of nothing or nonentity 381 IV, X | of knowledge or extent of power than what he gives them; 382 IV, X | whereby his omniscience, power, and providence will be 383 IV, X | particle in knowledge and power infinitely above all the 384 IV, X | of it; whereby freedom, power, choice, and all rational 385 IV, X | out of nothing by an equal power, but that you have the experience 386 IV, X | found to require no less power than the creation of matter. 387 IV, X | and begin to exist, by the power of that eternal first Being: 388 IV, X | inconceivable effect of omnipotent power. But this being what would 389 IV, X | not reasonable to deny the power of an infinite being, because 390 IV, X | then it could not be in our power or choice to alter it. For 391 IV, XI | have constantly the same power to dispose of them, and 392 IV, XIII | another thing in a man’s power, and that is, though he 393 IV, XIII | employed, our will hath no power to determine the knowledge 394 IV, XVI | aimed at by Him who has the power to change the course of 395 IV, XVII | guilt; between guilt and a power to do otherwise; between 396 IV, XVII | do otherwise; between a power to do otherwise and freedom; 397 IV, XVII | parts, learning, eminency, power, or some other cause has 398 IV, XVII | this to the best of his power, however he sometimes lights 399 IV, XIX | ourselves in the dark, or in the power of the Prince of Darkness, 400 IV, XIX | convince others, they had a power given them to justify the 401 IV, XIX | serpent, had assured him of a power to testify his mission, 402 IV, XX | may think credit, respect, power, and authority the concomitants 403 IV, XX | side; but yet a man hath a power to suspend and restrain 404 IV, XX | not in any rational man’s power to refuse his assent; but 405 IV, XX | I think it is in man’s power to suspend his assent; and 406 IV, XX | 16. Where it is in our power to suspend our judgment. 407 IV, XX | assent is no more in our power than knowledge. When the 408 IV, XXI | about the things in his own power, which are his own actions,