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... EFFECT WHOSE CAUSE IS GOD , V. THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER , VI . OBJECTIONS TO THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER EXAMINED , • VII . MORAL ARGUMENT -TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE AND HISTORY , · VIII . CONSIDERATION OF OBJECTIONS TO THE DIVINE WISDOM ...
... EFFECT WHOSE CAUSE IS GOD , V. THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER , VI . OBJECTIONS TO THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER EXAMINED , • VII . MORAL ARGUMENT -TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE AND HISTORY , · VIII . CONSIDERATION OF OBJECTIONS TO THE DIVINE WISDOM ...
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... effects as any good which can be ascribed to it ; and there can be no warrant for speaking of benefits as its proper effects , or uses and mischiefs as merely occasioned by it , or as its abuses . If in itself false , it must be ...
... effects as any good which can be ascribed to it ; and there can be no warrant for speaking of benefits as its proper effects , or uses and mischiefs as merely occasioned by it , or as its abuses . If in itself false , it must be ...
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... effect . But to think of God as a cause - to appre- hend the universe as an effect , we must have some immediate and direct experience of causa- tion . And such experience we have only in the consciousness of volition . When the soul ...
... effect . But to think of God as a cause - to appre- hend the universe as an effect , we must have some immediate and direct experience of causa- tion . And such experience we have only in the consciousness of volition . When the soul ...
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... effect which must have an adequate cause , they will question your right to refer to the order which is in the universe as a proof that it is an event or effect , because order implies another principle , and is the ground of another ...
... effect which must have an adequate cause , they will question your right to refer to the order which is in the universe as a proof that it is an event or effect , because order implies another principle , and is the ground of another ...
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... effect or not - you must study it as it is , and take everything into account which bears on the question . They reason as if they supposed that a cause and an intelligence must be two different things , and that a cause cannot be an ...
... effect or not - you must study it as it is , and take everything into account which bears on the question . They reason as if they supposed that a cause and an intelligence must be two different things , and that a cause cannot be an ...
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Page 176 - When he established the clouds above : When he strengthened the fountains of the deep : When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : 235 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him : And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 414 - With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 312 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 227 - He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.