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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Page 189
For we cannot conceive , since we have manifested that all mankind did come
from the posterity of Noah , that all those passages which concerned the history
of the world should be presently obliterated and extinguished among them , but ...
For we cannot conceive , since we have manifested that all mankind did come
from the posterity of Noah , that all those passages which concerned the history
of the world should be presently obliterated and extinguished among them , but ...
Page 247
BEFORE I come to the particular vindication of the char . truth and authority of the
holy Scriptures , which is my chief design , it will be necessary to rem necessary
to remove , if possible , the common and general prejudices aith religion in this ...
BEFORE I come to the particular vindication of the char . truth and authority of the
holy Scriptures , which is my chief design , it will be necessary to rem necessary
to remove , if possible , the common and general prejudices aith religion in this ...
Page 283
How come the species of animals to be so determined and limited , that in the
revolution of so many ages no new species have appeared , although they are so
different in some countries from others ? How comes the number of some
animals ...
How come the species of animals to be so determined and limited , that in the
revolution of so many ages no new species have appeared , although they are so
different in some countries from others ? How comes the number of some
animals ...
Page 284
And how comes this difference to have always continued without alteration ?
Whence comes that difference in animals , that some do ruminate , and others do
not ? Did mud , quickened by the sun , design to supply the want of teeth for ...
And how comes this difference to have always continued without alteration ?
Whence comes that difference in animals , that some do ruminate , and others do
not ? Did mud , quickened by the sun , design to supply the want of teeth for ...
Page 285
How come they to run so naturally to their – dams without any director , and to
avoid such as would destroy them ? What had the particles of matter to do in all
this ? If we go to insects ; how came the silkworms to hatch their eggs when the ...
How come they to run so naturally to their – dams without any director , and to
avoid such as would destroy them ? What had the particles of matter to do in all
this ? If we go to insects ; how came the silkworms to hatch their eggs when the ...
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