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  1   Read         |          good luck to receive any light from those exceptions I
  2    Int         |            sure I am that all the light we can let in upon our minds,
  3    Int         |      concernments, that they have light enough to lead them to the
  4    Int         |     attend his business by candle light, to plead that he had not
  5      I,  I     |         but only sagacious heads, light at first on these observations,
  6      I,  I     |         all these native beams of light (were there any such) should,
  7      I,  II    |      themselves, and by their own light be certain and known to
  8      I,  II    |           be.” It carries its own light and evidence with it, and
  9      I,  II    |           him so congruous to the light of reason, that a great
 10      I,  II    |          is a law knowable by the light of nature, i.e. without
 11      I,  II    |       first principles and innate light, we shall be as much in
 12      I,  III   |           agreeable to the common light of reason, and naturally
 13      I,  III   |       innate ideas of the sun, or light, or saffron, or yellow;
 14     II,  I     |         on the minds of children. Light and colours are busy at
 15     II,  I     |           thoughts, and yet never light on any of those ideas it
 16     II,  I     |            where the eyes have no light, and the ears so shut up
 17     II,  III   |     adapted to receive them. Thus light and colours, as white, red,
 18     II,  IV    |   discourse into him the ideas of light and colours. The reason
 19     II,  VII   |          of all sensible objects, light itself, if there be too
 20     II,  VII   |           pain. For, though great light be insufferable to our eyes,
 21     II,  VIII  |           ideas of heat and cold, light and darkness, white and
 22     II,  VIII  |        nothing but the absence of light (and the more the absence
 23     II,  VIII  |           the more the absence of light is, the more discernible
 24     II,  VIII  |    perfectly dark, from whence no light is reflected, it is certain
 25     II,  VIII  |      Flame is denominated hot and light; snow, white and cold; and
 26     II,  VIII  |        exist in those bodies. But light, heat, whiteness, or coldness,
 27     II,  VIII  |        them; let not the eyes see light or colours, nor the ears
 28     II,  VIII  |       colours in porphyry. Hinder light from striking on it, and
 29     II,  VIII  |         in us: upon the return of light it produces these appearances
 30     II,  VIII  |        the presence or absence of light; and that those ideas of
 31     II,  VIII  |        really in porphyry in. the light, when it is plain it has
 32     II,  VIII  |           are apt, by the rays of light rebounding from some parts
 33     II,  VIII  |          v.g. The idea of heat or light, which we receive by our
 34     II,  VIII  |    considered, these qualities of light and warmth, which are perceptions
 35     II,  VIII  |         produce in me the idea of light or heat; and in the other,
 36     II,  VIII  |     receiving the idea of heat or light from the sun, we are apt
 37     II,  IX    |      occur to them; amongst which light is not the least considerable,
 38     II,  IX    |         that part from whence the light comes, lay them how you
 39     II,  IX    |           with several degrees of light and brightness coming to
 40     II,  IX    |        made in the reflections of light by the difference of the
 41     II,  IX    |         to our minds the ideas of light and colours, which are peculiar
 42     II,  IX    |           its proper object, viz. light and colours; we bring ourselves
 43     II,  X     |          when we conceive heat or light, yellow or sweet,—the object
 44     II,  XI    |          are the windows by which light is let into this dark room.
 45     II,  XI    |           closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings
 46     II,  XIII  |    separating. A man may consider light in the sun without its heat,
 47     II,  XIV   |            whence they have their light, and how they come to make
 48     II,  XIV   |         any figure, any degree of light or whiteness, or what other
 49     II,  XIV   |          so equally dispersed its light and heat to all the habitable
 50     II,  XIV   |         Moses, I can imagine that light existed three days before
 51     II,  XIV   |     thinking that the duration of light before the sun was created
 52     II,  XIV   |           before there was either light or any continued motion,
 53     II,  XVII  |          give us a little further light into the idea we have of
 54     II,  XXI   | concerning them, according to the light I then had. And now, as
 55     II,  XXI   |         reception of the ideas of light, roundness, and heat; wherein
 56     II,  XXIII |        eyes, when placed in a due light: and the heat, which we
 57     II,  XXIII |     matter, let him consider what light he thereby brings to the
 58     II,  XXVIII|         the way, may give us some light into the different state
 59     II,  XXVIII|        promulgated to them by the light of nature, or the voice
 60     II,  XXVIII|          clear idea of sweetness, light, or extension, I have, too,
 61     II,  XXIX  |          in the objects of sight. Light being that which discovers
 62     II,  XXIX  |          which is not placed in a light sufficient to discover minutely
 63     II,  XXIX  |            and which, in a better light, would be discernible. In
 64     II,  XXXI  |        yet it is denominated also light and hot; as if light and
 65     II,  XXXI  |         also light and hot; as if light and heat were really something
 66     II,  XXXI  |           to receive the ideas of light and heat by those impressions
 67     II,  XXXI  |        there would yet be no more light or heat in the world than
 68     II,  XXXI  |           having the power in the light (I speak according to the
 69     II,  XXXI  |           to the common notion of light) to produce in men the sensation
 70     II,  XXXII |       reflecting the particles of light after a certain manner,
 71     II,  XXXIII|          to do with darkness than light: yet let but a foolish maid
 72    III,  IV    |       perhaps will afford so much light to the nature of these signs
 73    III,  IV    |      examined.~10. Definitions of light. “The act of perspicuous,
 74    III,  IV    |           the meaning of the word light (which it pretends to define)
 75    III,  IV    |            Those who tell us that light is a great number of little
 76    III,  IV    |      would make the idea the word light stands for no more known
 77    III,  IV    |          one should tell him that light was nothing but a company
 78    III,  IV    |          the idea of the cause of light, if we had it never so exact,
 79    III,  IV    |          more give us the idea of light itself, as it is such a
 80    III,  IV    |    thereby never have any idea of light, or anything approaching
 81    III,  IV    |          distinguish between that light which is the cause of that
 82    III,  IV    |         is that which is properly light.~11. Simple ideas, why undefinable,
 83    III,  IV    |          of that fruit itself. In light and colours, and all other
 84    III,  IV    |   arbitrary. And no definition of light or redness is more fitted
 85    III,  IV    |       ideas in us, than the sound light or red, by itself. For,
 86    III,  IV    |        hope to produce an idea of light or colour by a sound, however
 87    III,  IV    |         understand those names of light and colours which often
 88    III,  VI    |        chimeras, which give us no light into the specific natures
 89    III,  VIII  |         them, would have given us light into the nature of our ideas,
 90    III,  IX    |           mankind so sufficient a light of reason, that they to
 91    III,  X     |          be filled with truth and light, will not by such words
 92     IV,  II    |        ideas, which is the utmost light and greatest certainty we,
 93     IV,  II    |         the truth as the eye doth light, only by being directed
 94     IV,  II    |   presently filled with the clear light of it. It is on this intuition
 95     IV,  II    |     greater number of globules of light, and to give them the proper
 96     IV,  II    |        not say that the nature of light consists in very small round
 97     IV,  II    |        now treating physically of light or colours. But this I think
 98     IV,  II    |           in us.~12. Particles of light and simple ideas of colour.
 99     IV,  II    |        that the more particles of light are reflected from a body,
100     IV,  III   |          reflect the particles of light: and therefore it is not
101     IV,  III   |     modify or reflect the rays of light, as that it should have
102     IV,  III   |           this kind? What greater light can be hoped for in the
103     IV,  III   |         will perhaps give us some light into the present state of
104     IV,  VII   |           independent; receive no light, nor are capable of any
105     IV,  VII   |           these do we receive our light or knowledge from maxims.
106     IV,  VIII  |   certainly true, yet they add no light to our understanding; bring
107     IV,  VIII  |         the understanding any new light, or inlet into the knowledge
108     IV,  XI    |           to my mind the ideas of light, or the sun, which former
109     IV,  XI    |         avoid the ideas which the light or sun then produces in
110     IV,  XIII  |         with his eyes open in the light, cannot but see, yet there
111     IV,  XVI   |         could imagine to give any light to the question; and, with
112     IV,  XVI   |         of history: it is all the light we have in many cases, and
113     IV,  XVI   |           flame, and give us both light and heat. These and the
114     IV,  XVII  |         to be in gives no help or light at all: it only shows that
115     IV,  XVII  |          of argumentation carried light and conviction with it,
116     IV,  XVII  |        iron so, he had brought to light but little of that treasure
117     IV,  XVII  |            a little of this clear light, some sparks of bright knowledge,
118     IV,  XVII  |         proofs and arguments, and light arising from the nature
119     IV,  XVII  |          he that makes use of the light and faculties God has given
120     IV,  XVII  |      transgresses against his own light, and misuses those faculties
121     IV,  XVIII |         wherein he will have less light, less conduct than the beast
122     IV,  XVIII |       since God, in giving us the light of reason, has not thereby
123     IV,  XVIII |           when he thinks fit, the light of revelation in any of
124     IV,  XIX   |         minds by the irresistible light of self-evidence, or by
125     IV,  XIX   |     whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge,
126     IV,  XIX   |          revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much what
127     IV,  XIX   |      better to receive the remote light of an invisible star by
128     IV,  XIX   |  immediately from the fountain of light: this they understand he
129     IV,  XIX   |        are above it: they see the light infused into their understandings,
130     IV,  XIX   |           visible there, like the light of bright sunshine; shows
131     IV,  XIX   |         it proved to him that the light shines, and that he sees
132     IV,  XIX   |            When the Spirit brings light into our minds, it dispels
133     IV,  XIX   |        reason to show it us. This light from heaven is strong, clear,
134     IV,  XIX   |         10. The supposed internal light examined. But to examine
135     IV,  XIX   |      little soberly this internal light, and this feeling on which
136     IV,  XIX   |         men have, they say, clear light, and they see; they have
137     IV,  XIX   |          But however it be called light and seeing, I suppose it
138     IV,  XIX   |           is groundless; whatever light I pretend to, it is but
139     IV,  XIX   |        mere presumption: and this light they are so dazzled with
140     IV,  XIX   |        thus possessed, boast of a light whereby they say they are
141     IV,  XIX   |          God. If they say, by the light it brings with it, which
142     IV,  XIX   |           to be true. For all the light they speak of is but a strong,
143     IV,  XIX   |      opposite parties? For if the light, which every one thinks
144     IV,  XIX   |           minds with the clearest light.~13. Light in the mind,
145     IV,  XIX   |           the clearest light.~13. Light in the mind, what. Light,
146     IV,  XIX   |          Light in the mind, what. Light, true light, in the mind
147     IV,  XIX   |           mind, what. Light, true light, in the mind is, or can
148     IV,  XIX   | self-evident proposition, all the light it has, or can have, is
149     IV,  XIX   |    received. To talk of any other light in the understanding is
150     IV,  XIX   |     strength of persuasion be the light which must guide us; I ask
151     IV,  XIX   |          himself into an angel of light. And they who are led by
152     IV,  XIX   |           bring this guide of his light within to the trial. God
153     IV,  XIX   |        the mind with supernatural light, he does not extinguish
154     IV,  XIX   |      revelation. If this internal light, or any proposition which
155     IV,  XIX   |        else besides that internal light of assurance in their own
156     IV,  XIX   |       that can warrant it to be a light or motion from heaven: nothing