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morning worship half of the afternoon worship; and such arrangements are
not without a mystery of the same type as the properties which are grasped
by the light of prophecy. Indeed a man is very foolish and very ignorant if he
tries to show by intellectual means that these arrangements are wise, or if he
fancies that they are specified accidentally and not from a Divine mystery in
them which fixes them by way of the property.
Yet again, medicines have bases, which are the principal active ingredients,
and `additions‟ (auxiliaries or correctives), which are complementary, each of
them having its specific influence on the action of the bases. Similarly, the
Voluntary practices and the `customs‟ are complements which perfect the
basic elements of formal worship.
In general, prophets are the physicians of the diseases of hearts. The only
advantage of the intellect is that it informed us of that, bearing witness to
prophetic revelation by believing the prophets and to itself by being unable to
apprehend what is apprehended by the eye of prophecy; then it took us by the
hand and entrusted us to prophetic revelation, as the blind ate entrusted to
their guides and anxious patients to sympathetic doctors. Thus far may the
not without a mystery of the same type as the properties which are grasped
by the light of prophecy. Indeed a man is very foolish and very ignorant if he
tries to show by intellectual means that these arrangements are wise, or if he
fancies that they are specified accidentally and not from a Divine mystery in
them which fixes them by way of the property.
Yet again, medicines have bases, which are the principal active ingredients,
and `additions‟ (auxiliaries or correctives), which are complementary, each of
them having its specific influence on the action of the bases. Similarly, the
Voluntary practices and the `customs‟ are complements which perfect the
basic elements of formal worship.
In general, prophets are the physicians of the diseases of hearts. The only
advantage of the intellect is that it informed us of that, bearing witness to
prophetic revelation by believing the prophets and to itself by being unable to
apprehend what is apprehended by the eye of prophecy; then it took us by the
hand and entrusted us to prophetic revelation, as the blind ate entrusted to
their guides and anxious patients to sympathetic doctors. Thus far may the