...teaching was that all essential truth came to men by ' the light of nature,' that ' the Spirit of a Man is the Candle of the Lord, lighted by God, and lighting us to God.'1 Still another influence must be mentioned as determining the spirit and attitude of the...

...released from, though he might have it under the seal of heaven.' His favourite text was, 'The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, lighted by God and lighting us to God.' 'Reverence God in thyself; for God is more in the mind of man than in any part of this...

...century had been anticipated by the Cambridge Platonists with their recurrent theme, 'the Spirit of a Man is the Candle of the Lord; Lighted by God, and Lighting us to God. Res illuminata, illuminans.'13 But the view of Griffiths that in the hands of Locke and...

...be of the Spirit of God which is contradictory to Natural Light" (SSN, 9). 2. BW: "The Spirit of a Man is the Candle of the Lord; Lighted by God, and Lighting us to God. Res illuminata, illwninans" (MRA §916). 3. BW: "The Spirit in us, is the Reason of our...

...danger of impiety, so long as we do not intentionally subvert reason by vice, because "the Spirit of a Man is the Candle of the Lord; Lighted by God, and Lighting us to God."39 Whichcote did not consider reason to be profane or secular, or in opposition to faith...

...conscience, to be throughout rational in what they do; for these things have a divine foundation. The spirit in man is the candle of the Lord lighted by God, and lighting men to God. 132 The "candle of the Lord" signified the definite shift within the thought of Whichcote and the other...