Ralph Cudworth

thumb|Ralph Cudworth Ralph Cudworth (1617 – June 26, 1688) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian Hebraist, classicist, theologian and philosopher, and a leading figure among the Cambridge Platonists who became 11th Regius Professor of Hebrew (1645–88), 26th Master of Clare Hall (1645–54), and 14th Master of Christ's College (1654–88). Quotes The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, "Abba, Father." Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 16 Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731) The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. Ch. 5, sct. 7 Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. Ch. 1, sct. 1 Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world. Ch. 5, sct. 3 If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us. Ch. 1, sct. 3 External links BBK page Category:1617 births Category:1688 deaths Category:Philosophers from England Category:Theologians from England Category:Mystics Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:University of Cambridge faculty Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Clergy