Authority Cited: Stillingfleet
Author name and dates: Edward Stilliingfleet (1635-1699)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 147 Stillingfleet cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 134 cites in Dict. vol. 2. No Stillingfleet cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. All Stillingfleet cites appear to be from the title below. The two-volume edition below has pages consecutively numbered.]
Text: "If we look upon the World as a Musical instrument, well tuned and harmoniously struck, we ought not therefore to worship the instrument, but him that makes the Musick: and those who are the Judges at the Musick exercises, do not crown the Vial, but him that plaid upon it." p.62. See image below.
Author name and dates: Edward Stilliingfleet (1635-1699)
BKG Bio-tweet: Well connected; popular preacher; latitudinarian; Anglican controversialist; large library; Bentley, SJ: “universal scholar”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 147 Stillingfleet cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 134 cites in Dict. vol. 2. No Stillingfleet cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. All Stillingfleet cites appear to be from the title below. The two-volume edition below has pages consecutively numbered.]
- A defence of the discourse concerning the idolatry practised in the Church of Rome in answer to a book entituled, Catholicks no idolators / by Ed. Stillingfleet, D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, The Two First Parts, 1676, London: Printed by Robert White for Henry Mortlock, and are to be sold at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-yard, and White-Hart in Westminster-Hall; about; adoration; against (p.128); alter; analogical; anniversary (n.s., adj.); anticipation (p.80); apostasy (p.168); appendix; apprehend; appropriate; . . . deosculation (p.580); . . . genuflexion (p.137); taste; thundershower; thurification (p.580, same quote as deosculation); thursday; . . . understand; . . . wax; . . . zeal. [BKG Note: Prof. Beth Young, U. of Central Florida, has now (2025) identified the Stillingfleet citation source for the entry for fiddle. The Dict. entry is perhaps from memory as it is inexact and the text does not include the word fiddle. Stillingfleet translates a passage of Athenagoras of Athens (133-190 AD), a convert to Christianity, addressing the Emperor M. Aurelius.]
Text: "If we look upon the World as a Musical instrument, well tuned and harmoniously struck, we ought not therefore to worship the instrument, but him that makes the Musick: and those who are the Judges at the Musick exercises, do not crown the Vial, but him that plaid upon it." p.62. See image below.
