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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... body , and there move and are nourished ; and we grow up by little and little till we come to fuch a bigness , and then we come forth into the world , and yet grow ftill till we come to fuch a proportion as we are of . Here prefently ...
... body , and there move and are nourished ; and we grow up by little and little till we come to fuch a bigness , and then we come forth into the world , and yet grow ftill till we come to fuch a proportion as we are of . Here prefently ...
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... body ? If one of us , faith he , should fwal- low a little bird , it would prefently die as foon as it came into the ftomach ; how much more if it were in the belly ? If we should be but for few days without eating and drinking , we ...
... body ? If one of us , faith he , should fwal- low a little bird , it would prefently die as foon as it came into the ftomach ; how much more if it were in the belly ? If we should be but for few days without eating and drinking , we ...
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... bodies ( it being better for them to enjoy themfelves than not ) , they must be before they come into thefe bodies . Wherefore the pre - existence of fouls is a neceffary refult of the wisdom and goodness of God , who can no more fail ...
... bodies ( it being better for them to enjoy themfelves than not ) , they must be before they come into thefe bodies . Wherefore the pre - existence of fouls is a neceffary refult of the wisdom and goodness of God , who can no more fail ...
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... bodies which we fee ; fo that all the account we are able to give , according to this hypothefis , of all the pheno- mena of the univerfe , is from the fortuitous con- course of the atoms in the first forming of the world , and the ...
... bodies which we fee ; fo that all the account we are able to give , according to this hypothefis , of all the pheno- mena of the univerfe , is from the fortuitous con- course of the atoms in the first forming of the world , and the ...
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... bodies ? Nay , doth it at all follow , that because bodies upon their refolution do fall into infenfible particles of different fize , figure and motion , therefore these particles must be pre - exiftent to all bodies in the world ? For ...
... bodies ? Nay , doth it at all follow , that because bodies upon their refolution do fall into infenfible particles of different fize , figure and motion , therefore these particles must be pre - exiftent to all bodies in the world ? For ...
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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