Henry More

Henry More (12 October 1614 – 1 September 1687) was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.

Quotes

• True religion, sprung from God above,
  Is, like her fountain, full of charity,
  Embracing all things with a tender love,
  Full of good will and meek expectancy,
  Full of true justice and sure verity,
  In heart and voice; free, large, even infinite,
  Not wedged in straight peculiarity,
  But grasping all in her vast active spright:
  Bright lamp of God! that men would joy in thy pure light!
  • The Immortality of the Soul (1662), Book 2, Canto 3

• Tell mankind Jehovah reigns;
  He shall bind the world in chains,
  So as it shall never slide,
  And with sacred justice guide.
  Let the smiling heavens rejoice,
  Joyful earth exalt her voice;
  Let the dancing billows roar,
  Echoes answer from the shore,
  Fields their flowery mantles shake;
  All shall in their joy partake;
  While the wood-musicians sing
  To the ever-youthful spring.
  Fill His courts with sacred mirth;
  Lo! He comes to judge the earth:
  Justly He the world shall sway,
  And His truth to men display.
  • "A Hymn of Praise" (1668)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Henry More at Wikipedia
• Works related to Author:Henry More at Wikisource