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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And as the opinion of Epicurus destroys religion , so doth that of Aristotle , which attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary emanation of it from the first cause , as light comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimonides ...
And as the opinion of Epicurus destroys religion , so doth that of Aristotle , which attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary emanation of it from the first cause , as light comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimonides ...
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cuncta fingeret ; wherein he plainly distinguisheth the efficient from the material cause of the world . The prime efficient was God ; the material principle , water . It is a matter of some inquiry , whether the first principles of ...
cuncta fingeret ; wherein he plainly distinguisheth the efficient from the material cause of the world . The prime efficient was God ; the material principle , water . It is a matter of some inquiry , whether the first principles of ...
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For we assert an infinite and eternal Being , which was the efficient cause of the world , who by his omnipotent power produced it out of nothing , and continues it in its being ; which is well expressed by the author of the Refutation ...
For we assert an infinite and eternal Being , which was the efficient cause of the world , who by his omnipotent power produced it out of nothing , and continues it in its being ; which is well expressed by the author of the Refutation ...
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Ibid . τε B00Κ είναι , και του πώς διαμένειν , την εκείνου θέλησιν ; which hath no other cause either of its beginning , or of its being , or continuance , but only his will . Who fully answers , in a philosophical manner ...
Ibid . τε B00Κ είναι , και του πώς διαμένειν , την εκείνου θέλησιν ; which hath no other cause either of its beginning , or of its being , or continuance , but only his will . Who fully answers , in a philosophical manner ...
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For although the philosophers we now speak of did assert a Deity , which in some sense might be called the cause of the ... that the world was coequal with God himself ; and so , though there might be some priority in order of causes ...
For although the philosophers we now speak of did assert a Deity , which in some sense might be called the cause of the ... that the world was coequal with God himself ; and so , though there might be some priority in order of causes ...
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| Title | 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 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, Edward Stillingfleet |
| Author | Edward Stillingfleet |
| Publisher | University Press, 1836 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 17 Dec 2009 |
| Length | 542 pages |
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