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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... because he had the ad- vantage of comparing the feveral accounts of them together , and extracting out that which he judged the best of them . And hence Plutarch tells us , that Plutarch , de the firft principles of the world ...
... because he had the ad- vantage of comparing the feveral accounts of them together , and extracting out that which he judged the best of them . And hence Plutarch tells us , that Plutarch , de the firft principles of the world ...
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... because it is God's workmanship . To which thofe expreffions of Plato , in his Timæus , come very near ( whose phi- lofophy was , for fubftance , the fame with the Pytha- Ed . Ficini . gorean ) , when he had before afcribed the ...
... because it is God's workmanship . To which thofe expreffions of Plato , in his Timæus , come very near ( whose phi- lofophy was , for fubftance , the fame with the Pytha- Ed . Ficini . gorean ) , when he had before afcribed the ...
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... Because we fee things are otherwise now in the world . Which how infirm a way of arguing , it appears from the confi- deration of the former fimilitude , in which the argu- ments are as ftrong to prove the impoffibility of that which we ...
... Because we fee things are otherwise now in the world . Which how infirm a way of arguing , it appears from the confi- deration of the former fimilitude , in which the argu- ments are as ftrong to prove the impoffibility of that which we ...
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... because if the firft matter were gene- rated , it must be generated of other matter , and fo in infinitum ; and fo he argues from the nature of the heavens , that they are not capable of generation and VOL . II . C corruption 1 Ariftot ...
... because if the firft matter were gene- rated , it must be generated of other matter , and fo in infinitum ; and fo he argues from the nature of the heavens , that they are not capable of generation and VOL . II . C corruption 1 Ariftot ...
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... because we cannot but con- ceive the bounds of it ; for it extends no farther than matter doth . So that a power of creation is implied in the very notion of a Deity ; and therefore it is a mere fophifm to argue , because the world ...
... because we cannot but con- ceive the bounds of it ; for it extends no farther than matter doth . So that a power of creation is implied in the very notion of a Deity ; and therefore it is a mere fophifm to argue , because the world ...
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