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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... eternal , how should it come to pass that the oldest phi- losophers should so readily and unanimously embrace that opinion which asserted the production of the world ? Was it not a strong presumption of the novity of the universe , that ...
... eternal , how should it come to pass that the oldest phi- losophers should so readily and unanimously embrace that opinion which asserted the production of the world ? Was it not a strong presumption of the novity of the universe , that ...
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... eternal power , to the opinion of the vulgar ; which , saith he , was τὴν φύσιν αὐτὰ γεννᾶν ἀπό τινος αἰτίας αὐτο μάτης καὶ ἄνευ διανοίας φυούσης , that all things were pro- duced by a blind force of nature , without any reason or ...
... eternal power , to the opinion of the vulgar ; which , saith he , was τὴν φύσιν αὐτὰ γεννᾶν ἀπό τινος αἰτίας αὐτο μάτης καὶ ἄνευ διανοίας φυούσης , that all things were pro- duced by a blind force of nature , without any reason or ...
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... eternal Being , which was the efficient cause of the world , who by his omnipotent power produced it out of nothing , and continues it in its being ; which is well expressed by the author of the Refutation of Aristotle , in Justin ...
... eternal Being , which was the efficient cause of the world , who by his omnipotent power produced it out of nothing , and continues it in its being ; which is well expressed by the author of the Refutation of Aristotle , in Justin ...
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... suppose will not be questioned . By this , then , when we see that the communications of God's goodness to the world are free , and depend upon the eternal coun- II . sels of his will , which is a 22 ORIGINES SACRE .
... suppose will not be questioned . By this , then , when we see that the communications of God's goodness to the world are free , and depend upon the eternal coun- II . sels of his will , which is a 22 ORIGINES SACRE .
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... eternal , if not the universe ? But how reconcilable the eternity of the world is to the Pythagoric cabala of the crea- tion , I am yet to understand . But if this argument doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have ...
... eternal , if not the universe ? But how reconcilable the eternity of the world is to the Pythagoric cabala of the crea- tion , I am yet to understand . But if this argument doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have ...
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