Origines Sacrae: Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1797 - Apologetics |
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... see any reason to aver , with so much confi- dence as fome do , that thofe philofophers who fpake any thing confonantly to Mofes , muft presently con- verse with the Jews , tranfcribe their opinions out of the Scriptures , or have them ...
... see any reason to aver , with so much confi- dence as fome do , that thofe philofophers who fpake any thing confonantly to Mofes , muft presently con- verse with the Jews , tranfcribe their opinions out of the Scriptures , or have them ...
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... see these two renowned founders of the Ionic and Italic focieties of philofophers , both giving their concurrent teftimony with Mofes as to the true origin of the world , and not at all differing Diog . Laer . from each other ; for thus ...
... see these two renowned founders of the Ionic and Italic focieties of philofophers , both giving their concurrent teftimony with Mofes as to the true origin of the world , and not at all differing Diog . Laer . from each other ; for thus ...
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... see how Thales , with the Phoenicians , from whom he was derived , as Laertius tells us , and Py- thagoras , with the Egyptians and others , concur with Mofes , not only in the production of the world , but in the manner of it , wherein ...
... see how Thales , with the Phoenicians , from whom he was derived , as Laertius tells us , and Py- thagoras , with the Egyptians and others , concur with Mofes , not only in the production of the world , but in the manner of it , wherein ...
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... see no fuch thing in the universe : from whence he infers that the universe was always , and will be , as it is . Upon the fame principle doth Ariftotle difpute for the eternity of the world , from the nature of his ma- teria prima ...
... see no fuch thing in the universe : from whence he infers that the universe was always , and will be , as it is . Upon the fame principle doth Ariftotle difpute for the eternity of the world , from the nature of his ma- teria prima ...
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... see the light , though it flows from the fun , yet the fun is never without light . This Ariftotle proves from the neceffity of motion and time . For , faith he , whatever is moved , must be moved by fomething else , and confequently ...
... see the light , though it flows from the fun , yet the fun is never without light . This Ariftotle proves from the neceffity of motion and time . For , faith he , whatever is moved , must be moved by fomething else , and confequently ...
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afferted againſt Anaxagoras Anaximander ancient animals anſwer Ariftotle atoms becauſe befides bodies BOOK Cartes caufe cauſe Chalcidius Chrift Chriftian Cicero confider Dæmon defign deftroyed Democritus difcourfe Diodorus Siculus Divine doth earth Egyptians Epicurus eſpecially eternal evil exift exiſtence extenfion faid faith fame feems fenfe ferve feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome foul fpeaks ftill ftrange fubftance fuch things fufficient fuppofe give God's goodneſs greateſt Greece Greeks hath himſelf hypothefis impoffible infinite itſelf Lucretius mankind matter mind Mofes moft moſt motion muft muſt nature neceffary neceffity obferved opinion paffage particles Pelafgi perfons Phaleg philofophers Plato Plutarch poffible prefent preferved principles puniſhment purpoſe Pythagoras queftion reafon reft religion Scriptures ſeems ſenſe ſeveral ſome ſpeak Strabo ſuppoſe teftimony thefe themſelves thence theſe things thofe thoſe tion truth underſtand univerfe unleſs uſe whofe worship δὲ καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τῶν