Leviathan eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 732 pages of information about Leviathan.

Leviathan eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 732 pages of information about Leviathan.
Will of their Masters, in such manner as to forfeit them upon the least disobedience,) and that are bought and sold as Beasts, were called Douloi, that is properly, Slaves, and their Service, Douleia:  The other, which is of those that serve (for hire, or in hope of benefit from their Masters) voluntarily; are called Thetes; that is, Domestique Servants; to whose service the Masters have no further right, than is contained in the Covenants made betwixt them.  These two kinds of Servants have thus much common to them both, that their labour is appointed them by another, whether, as a Slave, or a voluntary Servant:  And the word Latris, is the general name of both, signifying him that worketh for another, whether, as a Slave, or a voluntary Servant:  So that Latreia signifieth generally all Service; but Douleia the service of Bondmen onely, and the condition of Slavery:  And both are used in Scripture (to signifie our Service of God) promiscuously.  Douleia, because we are Gods Slaves; Latreia, because wee Serve him:  and in all kinds of Service is contained, not onely Obedience, but also Worship, that is, such actions, gestures, and words, as signifie Honor.

An Image What Phantasmes An image (in the most strict signification of the word) is the Resemblance of some thing visible:  In which sense the Phantasticall Formes, Apparitions, or Seemings of Visible Bodies to the Sight, are onely Images; such as are the Shew of a man, or other thing in the Water, by Reflexion, or Refraction; or of the Sun, or Stars by Direct Vision in the Air; which are nothing reall in the things seen, nor in the place where thy seem to bee; nor are their magnitudes and figures the same with that of the object; but changeable, by the variation of the organs of Sight, or by glasses; and are present oftentimes in our Imagination, and in our Dreams, when the object is absent; or changed into other colours, and shapes, as things that depend onely upon the Fancy.  And these are the Images which are originally and most properly called Ideas, and idols, and derived from the language of the Graecians, with whom the word Eido signifieth to See.  They are also called Phantasmes, which is in the same language, Apparitions.  And from these Images it is that one of the faculties of mans Nature, is called the Imagination.  And from hence it is manifest, that there neither is, nor can bee any Image made of a thing Invisible.

It is also evident, that there can be no Image of a thing Infinite:  for all the Images, and Phantasmes that are made by the Impression of things visible, are figured:  but Figure is a quantity every way determined:  And therefore there can bee no Image of God:  nor of the Soule of Man; nor of Spirits, but onely of Bodies Visible, that is, Bodies that have light in themselves, or are by such enlightened.

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