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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The account , which the Scriptures give of the fall of man , 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 ...
The account , which the Scriptures give of the fall of man , 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 ...
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... abundant provision which is made in the world , not only for man's necessity , but for delight and ornament , cries out , Ut interdum pronĉa nostra Epicurea fuisse videatur ; God's providence doth abundantly exceed man's necessity .
... abundant provision which is made in the world , not only for man's necessity , but for delight and ornament , cries out , Ut interdum pronĉa nostra Epicurea fuisse videatur ; God's providence doth abundantly exceed man's necessity .
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But if this argument doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have shewed it doth not , much less doth it preexistence of souls . We have thus far considered the first hypothesis , VIII . which is repugnant to Moses ...
But if this argument doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have shewed it doth not , much less doth it preexistence of souls . We have thus far considered the first hypothesis , VIII . which is repugnant to Moses ...
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If God hath a power to produce something out of nothing , either this power 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 ...
If God hath a power to produce something out of nothing , either this power 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 ...
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Epicurus's own confession all these atoms are , which CHAP . are now the component particles of bodies ; much more those which by their fortuitous concourse gave being to the world , ) and that is , if something evident to sense doth ...
Epicurus's own confession all these atoms are , which CHAP . are now the component particles of bodies ; much more those which by their fortuitous concourse gave being to the world , ) and that is , if something evident to sense doth ...
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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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