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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 intellect
proceed. In what lies beyond it has no part, save in the understanding of what the
physician communicates to it.
These are matters which we learned by a necessity like that of direct vision in
the period of solitude and retirement.
We next observed the laxity of men‟s belief in the principle of prophecy and in
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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 intellect
proceed. In what lies beyond it has no part, save in the understanding of what the
physician communicates to it.
These are matters which we learned by a necessity like that of direct vision in
the period of solitude and retirement.
We next observed the laxity of men‟s belief in the principle of prophecy and in
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