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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... doth not charge God with man's fault . God's power to govern man by laws , though he gives no particular reason of every positive precept . VI . The reason of God's creating man with freedom of will , largely shewed from Simplicius ...
... doth not charge God with man's fault . God's power to govern man by laws , though he gives no particular reason of every positive precept . VI . The reason of God's creating man with freedom of will , largely shewed from Simplicius ...
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... doth abundantly exceed man's necessity . We see then from this discourse how unsafe and unsatisfactory ( that I may not say bold and presumptuous ) those argu- ments are , which are drawn from a general consider- ation of the Divine ...
... doth abundantly exceed man's necessity . We see then from this discourse how unsafe and unsatisfactory ( that I may not say bold and presumptuous ) those argu- ments are , which are drawn from a general consider- ation of the Divine ...
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... doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have shewed it doth not , much less doth it preexist- ence of souls . de Vera We have thus far considered the first hypothesis , VIII . which is repugnant to Moses , concerning the ...
... doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have shewed it doth not , much less doth it preexist- ence of souls . de Vera We have thus far considered the first hypothesis , VIII . which is repugnant to Moses , concerning the ...
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... doth extend to the production of this matter , or not ; if it doth , then it depends on him ; if not , his power is not infinite , and so the same power is infinite and not infinite ; which is another contradiction . So that it is ...
... doth extend to the production of this matter , or not ; if it doth , then it depends on him ; if not , his power is not infinite , and so the same power is infinite and not infinite ; which is another contradiction . So that it is ...
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... doth apparently prove it , which is his way of proving a vacuity in nature from motion : but though that be easily answered by principles different from those of Epicurus , and more rational , yet that very way of probation fails him in ...
... doth apparently prove it , which is his way of proving a vacuity in nature from motion : but though that be easily answered by principles different from those of Epicurus , and more rational , yet that very way of probation fails him in ...
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