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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II . inquire of such who love reason above Plato and Py - CHAP . thagoras ,
whether , if the eternity of the world were - put into the argument instead of the
preexistence of souls , this argument would not hold as strongly for that as it doth
for ...
II . inquire of such who love reason above Plato and Py - CHAP . thagoras ,
whether , if the eternity of the world were - put into the argument instead of the
preexistence of souls , this argument would not hold as strongly for that as it doth
for ...
Page 63
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
man ...
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
man ...
Page 73
If then man ' s ruin and misery be from himself , which the Scripture doth so much
inculcate on all occasions , then without controversy that which is the cause of all
the misery of human nature is wholly from himself too , which is sin . So that if ...
If then man ' s ruin and misery be from himself , which the Scripture doth so much
inculcate on all occasions , then without controversy that which is the cause of all
the misery of human nature is wholly from himself too , which is sin . So that if ...
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1 . ever so muupon , but this doth Nat . Deor . BOOK rance and fear . Still we meet
with nothing but the - - result of ignorance and fear in the Gentile world . We do
not deny that religion was exceedingly corrupted among them ; but we affirm ...
1 . ever so muupon , but this doth Nat . Deor . BOOK rance and fear . Still we meet
with nothing but the - - result of ignorance and fear in the Gentile world . We do
not deny that religion was exceedingly corrupted among them ; but we affirm ...
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If it be so , then it follows , that it doth not depend upon mere imagination , but that
there is a true and just measure in things ; for if human society cannot be
preserved without justice , and keeping faith and obedience to government ,
conjugal ...
If it be so , then it follows , that it doth not depend upon mere imagination , but that
there is a true and just measure in things ; for if human society cannot be
preserved without justice , and keeping faith and obedience to government ,
conjugal ...
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