Theologo-historicus, or, The true life of the most reverend divine and excellent historian Peter Heylyn, D.D., sub-dean of Westminster
by John Barnard; George Vernon; Publisher: London : Printed for Daniel Brown, 1683.
Editions: 3 Editions
Theologo-historicus, Or, The True Life of the Most Reverend Divine and ... By John Barnard: "many our sleep to a melancholy temper which the Doctor was never subject to either in time of sickness or health but was a man always of most cheerful spirit I confess that black humour presenteth strange things to the imagination and phantasy of some persons that Aristotle in his Problems ascribes the prophecy of the Sibyl women thereto and Cardanus the revelations of hermits because living in solitude and on bad diet Quantum poterat saith he in illis humor melancholicus The old philosophers also were of opinion that all prophecy did proceed from the strength of imagination by the conjunction of the understanding which they call intellectus paesibilis4 with the other faculty of the intellectus agens whereby they concluded contrary to the holy Scripture that old men vere not capable of "
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