Origines Sacrae Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion: To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author : Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2 |
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The ancient tradition of the world consonant to Moses ; proved from the Ionic
philosophy of Thales , and the Italic of Pythagoras . III . The Pythagoric cabala
rather Egyptian than Mosaic . Of the Auid matter , which was the material
principle of ...
The ancient tradition of the world consonant to Moses ; proved from the Ionic
philosophy of Thales , and the Italic of Pythagoras . III . The Pythagoric cabala
rather Egyptian than Mosaic . Of the Auid matter , which was the material
principle of ...
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The opinion of the ancient Greek phi . losophers ; of Pythagoras , Plato , the
Stoics ; the origin of evil not from the necessity of matter . XV , XVI . The
remainders of the history of the fall among the heathens . XVII , XVIII , XIX . Of the
malignity of ...
The opinion of the ancient Greek phi . losophers ; of Pythagoras , Plato , the
Stoics ; the origin of evil not from the necessity of matter . XV , XVI . The
remainders of the history of the fall among the heathens . XVII , XVIII , XIX . Of the
malignity of ...
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Eccles . Hist . assure us , whatever Porphyrius suggests to the con - 1 . vi . c . trary
, did communicate to his scholars the sublimer i mysteries of Divine revelation ,
together with the spe - Eccl . culations of the ancient philosophers : which Holste
...
Eccles . Hist . assure us , whatever Porphyrius suggests to the con - 1 . vi . c . trary
, did communicate to his scholars the sublimer i mysteries of Divine revelation ,
together with the spe - Eccl . culations of the ancient philosophers : which Holste
...
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This was the pretence of the Egyptians , Grecians , ancient inhabitants of Italy ,
and others . But how little reason we have to give credit to these pretences , will
appear on these accounts : 1 . The impossibility in nature that mankind should be
...
This was the pretence of the Egyptians , Grecians , ancient inhabitants of Italy ,
and others . But how little reason we have to give credit to these pretences , will
appear on these accounts : 1 . The impossibility in nature that mankind should be
...
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I . That there were some remainders of the ancient history of the world preserved
in the several nations after the dispersion . II . How it came to be corrupted : by
decay of knowledge , increase of idolatry , confusion of languages . III . An inquiry
...
I . That there were some remainders of the ancient history of the world preserved
in the several nations after the dispersion . II . How it came to be corrupted : by
decay of knowledge , increase of idolatry , confusion of languages . III . An inquiry
...
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