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 2University Press, 1836 - 542 pages |
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... deny any eternity to the world , but assert the origin of it to have been by a casual con- course of atoms . 4. Such as endeavour to explain the origin of the universe , and all appearances of na- ture , merely by the mechanical laws of ...
... deny any eternity to the world , but assert the origin of it to have been by a casual con- course of atoms . 4. Such as endeavour to explain the origin of the universe , and all appearances of na- ture , merely by the mechanical laws of ...
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... such a sense , which the plainness and perspicuity of the writings of Moses argue them not capable to admit of . But I will ert . Procem . P. 7 . not deny , from those concurrent testimonies of Her- CHAP 6 ORIGINES SACRE .
... such a sense , which the plainness and perspicuity of the writings of Moses argue them not capable to admit of . But I will ert . Procem . P. 7 . not deny , from those concurrent testimonies of Her- CHAP 6 ORIGINES SACRE .
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... deny , from those concurrent testimonies of Her- CHAP . II . apud Ebræ- Sectis Phi- mippus and Aristobulus , besides Origen , Porphyry , V. Selden Clemens Alexandrinus , and others , that Pythagoras de JureNat . might have had an ...
... deny , from those concurrent testimonies of Her- CHAP . II . apud Ebræ- Sectis Phi- mippus and Aristobulus , besides Origen , Porphyry , V. Selden Clemens Alexandrinus , and others , that Pythagoras de JureNat . might have had an ...
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... deny it , and offers to bring demon- strations that it was utterly impossible that it should be so . For , saith he , if either of us cease breathing but for an hour , our motion and life is gone : how is it then possible for one of us ...
... deny it , and offers to bring demon- strations that it was utterly impossible that it should be so . For , saith he , if either of us cease breathing but for an hour , our motion and life is gone : how is it then possible for one of us ...
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... deny , since God , by his infinite power , may give motion to that which had it not before ; and so all that can be proved is the necessity of some first cause , which we assert , but no necessity at all of his continual acting , since ...
... deny , since God , by his infinite power , may give motion to that which had it not before ; and so all that can be proved is the necessity of some first cause , which we assert , but no necessity at all of his continual acting , since ...
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