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1 Read | acquaintance with their own understandings; but for my own information, 2 Read | and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted 3 Read | imagination. We have our understandings no less different than our 4 Int | we can make with our own understandings, will not only be very pleasant, 5 Int | organs, or any ideas in our understandings; and whether those ideas 6 Int | of the ways whereby our understandings come to attain those notions 7 Int | about things to which our understandings are not suited; and of which 8 Int | the comprehension of our understandings comes exceeding short of 9 Int | and we shall then use our understandings right, when we entertain 10 Int | take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, 11 Int | undoubted possession of our understandings, wherein there was nothing 12 Int | were the capacities of our understandings well considered, the extent 13 I, I | necessarily have them in their understandings, know the truth of them, 14 I, I | from what passes in their understandings before they express it; 15 I, II | their minds and submit their understandings to, it is no wonder that 16 I, III | to form them right in our understandings. They are so far from being 17 I, III | show, that there was in the understandings of men no innate idea of 18 I, III | should clash with their understandings, and their appetites cross 19 I, III | first impressions on their understandings; nor will he find the least 20 I, III | as to know by other men’s understandings. So much as we ourselves 21 II, I | that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of 22 II, I | from these receive into our understandings as distinct ideas as we 23 II, VII | the proper business of all understandings.~7. Ideas of existence and 24 II, VIII | sensations or perceptions in our understandings, I call them ideas; which 25 II, X | have all those ideas in our understandings which, though we do not 26 II, XI | suitable defects in men’s understandings and knowledge.~13. Difference 27 II, XIV | take their turns in our understandings. When that succession of 28 II, XIV | one another in their own understandings; without which observation 29 II, XIV | one after another in our understandings, we get the notion of succession; 30 II, XV | would be lost, to our finite understandings, in the boundless invariable 31 II, XV | perhaps for us, who have understandings and comprehensions suited 32 II, XVI | about; every idea in our understandings; every thought of our minds, 33 II, XXI | volition were well fixed in our understandings, and carried along with 34 II, XXI | thoughts, and entangle their understandings, would be much easier resolved; 35 II, XXI | our passions, so that our understandings may be free to examine, 36 II, XXIII | these, though our narrow understandings can comprehend neither. 37 II, XXXIII| something that blinds their understandings, and makes them not see 38 III, V | the creatures of their own understandings; beings that had no other 39 III, VI | infinitely exceed what our narrow understandings can conceive of Him.~12. 40 III, IX | rather upon our words than understandings. This exception has so much 41 III, IX | themselves so much between our understandings, and the truth which it 42 III, IX | eyes, and impose upon our understandings. If we consider, in the 43 III, X | did equally instruct men’s understandings, and profit their lives, 44 III, XI | them, comes in use, their understandings have no other object wherein 45 IV, I | on them. For our finite understandings being able to think clearly 46 IV, III | be in some even created understandings, not tied down to the dull 47 IV, III | which manifestly baffles our understandings. Other spirits, who see 48 IV, III | within the reach of our understandings, and launch not out into 49 IV, III | clearest and most enlarged understandings of thinking men find themselves 50 IV, III | way wholly above our weak understandings to conceive.~29. Instances. 51 IV, V | wherein the ideas in our understandings are without the use of words 52 IV, VI | bare instance: because our understandings can discover no conceivable 53 IV, VI | to lie more level to our understandings. For as to the operations 54 IV, XI | actually convey into our understandings any idea, we cannot but 55 IV, XVIII | of his workmanship, our understandings; and put a man in a condition 56 IV, XIX | as they deliver it to our understandings. Whatsoever credit or authority 57 IV, XIX | light infused into their understandings, and cannot be mistaken; 58 IV, XX | their fortunes; and their understandings are but little instructed, 59 IV, XX | freest part of man, their understandings. This is generally the case 60 IV, XX | men, in respect of their understandings, I think nobody, who has 61 IV, XX | difference of degrees in men’s understandings, apprehensions, and reasonings, 62 IV, XX | leisure to improve their understandings, can satisfy themselves 63 IV, XX | unwary as well as unbiassed understandings, and fastened by degrees, 64 IV, XX | Next to these are men whose understandings are cast into a mould, and