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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III . The truth of the history of the flood . The possibility of an universal deluge proved . IV . The flood universal as to mankind , whether universal as to the earth and animals ; no necessity of asserting either .
III . The truth of the history of the flood . The possibility of an universal deluge proved . IV . The flood universal as to mankind , whether universal as to the earth and animals ; no necessity of asserting either .
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ameter of the earth . No mountains much above three miles perpendicular . Of the origin of fountains . The opinion of Aristotle and others concerning it discussed . The true account of them from the vapours arising from the mass of ...
ameter of the earth . No mountains much above three miles perpendicular . Of the origin of fountains . The opinion of Aristotle and others concerning it discussed . The true account of them from the vapours arising from the mass of ...
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... production of the world , but in the manner of it , wherein is expressed a fluid matter , which was the material principle out of which the world was formed ; when we are told , that the earth was without form and void , Gen. i .
... production of the world , but in the manner of it , wherein is expressed a fluid matter , which was the material principle out of which the world was formed ; when we are told , that the earth was without form and void , Gen. i .
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And therefore by the heavens he understands incorpoream naturam , and by earth , ŭan , or the primogenial matter . And this , saith he , appears by the following words , The earth was invisible , and without form ; i . e . this ...
And therefore by the heavens he understands incorpoream naturam , and by earth , ŭan , or the primogenial matter . And this , saith he , appears by the following words , The earth was invisible , and without form ; i . e . this ...
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So that though we conceive something superior , we must imagine nothing supreme ; and so on the conGassend . trary . Whereby it is evident , as Gassendus confesseth , Physic . that Epicurus thought the surface of the earth to be a 1.
So that though we conceive something superior , we must imagine nothing supreme ; and so on the conGassend . trary . Whereby it is evident , as Gassendus confesseth , Physic . that Epicurus thought the surface of the earth to be a 1.
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