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efTentially and intrinfically evil ; and therefore the 
greateft part of tliein denied tlie reality of his fiift'erings. 
They fet a great value on the beginning of the gofpel 
of St. Jolin, where tliey fancied they law their asons or 
emanations under the Word, the Life, the Light, See. 
They divided all nature into three kinds of being, 
viz. hylic, or material ; pfychic, or animal ; and pneumatic, 
or fpiritual. On the like principle tliey alfo diltin- 
guifhed three forts of men ; material, animal, and fpiritual. 
The firlt, wlio were material, and incapable of know¬ 
ledge, inevitably peri (lied ; the third, Inch as the gnof- 
tics themfelves jiretended to be, were all certainly laved: 
the pl'ycliic, or animal, who were of the middle nature, 
were capable either of being laved or damned, accord¬ 
ing to their good or evil adlions. 
With regard to their moral doftrines and condudh, 
they were much divided. The greatell part of this 
I’edf adopted very aultere rules of life, recommended 
rigorous abltinence, and preferibed fevere bodily mor¬ 
tifications, with a view of purifying and exalting the 
mind. Others, however, maintained, that there was 
no moral difference in human actions ; and thus, con¬ 
founding right with wrong, they gave a loofe to all the 
paliions, and alTerted the innocence of following blindly 
all their motions, and of living by their tumultuous 
didfates. The tenets of the ancient gnolfics were re¬ 
vived in Spain, in the fourth century, by a fedl called 
the Prifcillianjls. 
GNU, or Gnou, f. A fpecies of antelope. See the 
article Capra, vol. iii. p. 775. 
ToGO,v.n. pret. I went •, I have gone: [gan, Saxon. 
This was probably changed to gone, or gang, then con- 
tradted to go. Went is the preterite of the old verb 
wend. 2 To walk ; to move Hep by ftep ; 
You know that love 
Will creep in fervice where it cannot go. Shakejpeare. 
To move ; not Hand fiill.—Rife, let us be going. Matt. 
xxvi. 46.—To walk folemnly.—If there be caufe for 
the church to go forth in folemn proceifion, his" whole 
family have fuch bufinefs come upon them that no one 
can be fpared. Hooker. —To walk leifurely ; not run.— 
And muft I go to liim ?—Thou mufi: run to him; for 
thou half (laid fo long, that going will fcarce ferve the 
turn. Shakefpeare. —'I’o march or walk a-foot_I will 
only ^0 through on my feet. Num. .xx. 19.—To travel ; 
journey ; 
From them I go, 
'I'his uncouth errand foie. Milton. 
To proceed ; to make a progrefs : 
Thus others we with defamation wound. 
While they flab us; and fo the jefi; goa round. Dryden. 
To remove from place to place : 
Stept in fo far, tliat, thould I wade no more, 
Returning were as tedious as go o’er. Shakefpeare. 
To depart from a place; to move from a place; the 
oppofite of to come. —And when fhe liad fo faid (he went 
her way. John,x\. 28.—I will let you ^0, thatyeinayfa- 
crifice, only you lhall not go very far away. Exod.’v'tW. 28. 
Go firft th.e mafter of tliy herds to find. 
True to ids charge, a loyal fwain and kind. Pope. 
To move or pafs in any manner, or to any end.—The 
mourners go about the ftreets. Eccl. xii. 5.—The fun 
thall go down over the prophets, and the day thall be 
dark over them. Mac. iii. 6.—Put every man his fword 
by his fide, and go in and out from gate to gate through¬ 
out the camp. Exod. xxxii. 27. 
Though the vicar be bad, or the parfon be evil, 
Go not for thy tything thyfelf to the devil. Tvjfer. 
To pafs in company with others.—Thou fhalt again be 
adorned with thy tabrets, and lhalt go forth in the dances 
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of them that make merry. Jer. xT^xi. 4. —He goeth in 
company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh 
with wicked men. Job. 
Away, and with thee go, the worll of woes. 
That feek’fi: my friendthip, and the gods thy foes. 
Chapman. 
To proceed in any courfe of life, good or bad.—And 
the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Ifrael 
rornt aftray, which went aftray away from me after their 
idols, they thall even bear their iniquity. Ezek. xliv. lO. 
—To proceed in mental operations.—Thus I have gone 
through the fpeculative confideration of the Divine 
Providence. Hale. —I hope, by going over all thele par¬ 
ticulars, you may receive fome tolerable fatisfaffion 
about this great tubject. South. —To take any road.— 
I will go along by the highway ; I will neither turn to 
the right hand, nor to the left. Deut. ii. 27.—Who thall 
bemoan thee ? Or who thall go atide to atk how tliou 
doefi: ? Jer. xv. 5.—To march in a liotlile or warlike 
manner.—Let us go down after the Philittines by night, 
and fpoil them until the morning light. 1 Scan. xiv. 36. 
—The remnant of Jacob thall be among the Gentiles 
as a lion among the hearts of the forert ; who, if he go 
through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and 
none can deliver. Mic. v. 8. 
You were advis’d his fletli was capable 
Ot wounds and fears, and that his forward fpirit 
Would lift where mort the trade of danger rang'd ; _ 
Yet did you lay go forth. Shakejpeare. 
To change rtate or opinion for better or worfe.—We 
will not hearken to the king’s words to go from our re¬ 
ligion. 1 Mac. ii. 22. 
All goes to ruin, they themfelves contrive 
To rob the honey, and fubvert the hive. Dryden. 
To apply one’s felf.—Becaufe this atheirt goes mecha¬ 
nically to work, he will not offer to affirm that all the 
parts of the embryon could, according to his explica¬ 
tion, be formed at a-time. Bentley. —To have recourle 
to.—Dare any of you, having a matter againll another, 
go to law before the unjurt, and not before the faints ? 
I Cor. —To be about to do. — So extraordinary an exam¬ 
ple, in fo degenerate an age, deferves for the rarity, 
and, I was going to fay, for the incredibility of it, the 
attertation of all that knew him. Locke. —To rtiift; to 
pafs life not quite well.—Clothes they mull have ; but 
if they fpeak for this rtuff, or that colour, they Ihould 
be fure to go without it. Locke .— To decline ; to tend 
towards death or ruin. This ferife is only in the parti- 
ciples going and gone : 
He is far gone, and, truly, in my youth, 
1 fuffer’d much extremity for love. Shakefpeare. 
To be in party or defign : 
They with the vanquifli’d prince and party go. 
And leave their temples open to the foe. Dryden. 
To efcape.—Timotheus himfelf fell into the hands of 
Dofitheus and Sofipater, whom he befbught with much' 
craft to let him go with his life. 2 Mac. xii. 24. — To 
tend to any adf : 
There'be fome women, Silvius, had they mark’d him. 
In parcels as I did,-would have gone near 
To fall in love with him. Shakefpeare. 
To be uttered.—His difciples perfonally appeared 
among them, and entertained the report which \vdd gone 
abroad concerning a life fo full of miracles. Addifon..-- 
To be talked of; to be known.—It has the greatell 
town in the irtand that goes under the name of Ano-Ca- 
prea, and is in feveral places covered v/ith a very fruit¬ 
ful foil. Addifon on Italy. —To pafs; to be received.— 
And the man went among men for an old man in the 
days of Saul, i Sam. xvii. it. —A kind imagination makes 
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