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 12
... philosopher that things were ever otherwise than they are ; they found it most defensible to assert that the world never had a beginning , nor would have an end , but always did , and would continue in the state they were in .
... philosopher that things were ever otherwise than they are ; they found it most defensible to assert that the world never had a beginning , nor would have an end , but always did , and would continue in the state they were in .
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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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... man must be made as happy as he was capable of being , not only upon his first existence in the world , but as long as it should continue , by mere necessity of nature , without any intervention of the will or actions of men .
... man must be made as happy as he was capable of being , not only upon his first existence in the world , but as long as it should continue , by mere necessity of nature , without any intervention of the will or actions of men .
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... and the rest of the small and contiguous parts that make up the firm body , according to that catholic law of nature whereby things continue in the state they are in till some stronger force puts them out of it .
... and the rest of the small and contiguous parts that make up the firm body , according to that catholic law of nature whereby things continue in the state they are in till some stronger force puts them out of it .
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... but would continue their motion still in a parallel line ; and so he imagined that which is said to be above as to us , was really the upper part of the world , and so the descent of his atoms must necessarily be downwards towards ...
... but would continue their motion still in a parallel line ; and so he imagined that which is said to be above as to us , was really the upper part of the world , and so the descent of his atoms must necessarily be downwards towards ...
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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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