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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... against its beginning , fhewed from Maimonides . ] VII . The Platonifts ' arguments , from the goodness of God for the eternity of the world , anfwered . VIII . Of the Stoical hy- pothefis of the eternity of matter ; whether reconcile ...
... against its beginning , fhewed from Maimonides . ] VII . The Platonifts ' arguments , from the goodness of God for the eternity of the world , anfwered . VIII . Of the Stoical hy- pothefis of the eternity of matter ; whether reconcile ...
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... against it refuted . The neceffity of the belief of Providence in order to religion . III . Providence proved from a confideration of the nature of God and the things of the world . Of the Spirit of na- ture . IV . The great objections ...
... against it refuted . The neceffity of the belief of Providence in order to religion . III . Providence proved from a confideration of the nature of God and the things of the world . Of the Spirit of na- ture . IV . The great objections ...
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... against its Beginning , fhewed from Maimoni- des . ] VII . The Platonifts ' Arguments , from the Goodness of God for the Eternity of the World , an- fwered . VIII . Of the Stoical Hypothesis of the Eter- VOL . II . B nity BOOK III ...
... against its Beginning , fhewed from Maimoni- des . ] VII . The Platonifts ' Arguments , from the Goodness of God for the Eternity of the World , an- fwered . VIII . Of the Stoical Hypothesis of the Eter- VOL . II . B nity BOOK III ...
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... against his opinion ; for if the world had been eternal , how should it come to pass that the oldest philofophers should fo readily and unanimously em- brace that opinion which afferted the production of the world ? Was it not a ftrong ...
... against his opinion ; for if the world had been eternal , how should it come to pass that the oldest philofophers should fo readily and unanimously em- brace that opinion which afferted the production of the world ? Was it not a ftrong ...
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... against all who came to oppofe him . From hence thofe opinions were most plaufible , not which were moft true , but which were moft defenfible , and which , like Des Cartes's fecond Element , had all the angles cut off , on which their ...
... against all who came to oppofe him . From hence thofe opinions were most plaufible , not which were moft true , but which were moft defenfible , and which , like Des Cartes's fecond Element , had all the angles cut off , on which their ...
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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