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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OF THE ORIGIN OF EVIL . I . Of the being of Providence . II . Epicurus ' s
arguments against it refuted . The necessity of the belief of Providence in order to
religion . III . Providence proved from a consideration of the nature of God and the
things ...
OF THE ORIGIN OF EVIL . I . Of the being of Providence . II . Epicurus ' s
arguments against it refuted . The necessity of the belief of Providence in order to
religion . III . Providence proved from a consideration of the nature of God and the
things ...
Page 93
And how can he have the management of things , if they be liable to evil , which
the other God , which is the principle of evil , may lay upon it ; from which ,
according to this supposition , the principle of good cannot rescue it ? So thật
they who ...
And how can he have the management of things , if they be liable to evil , which
the other God , which is the principle of evil , may lay upon it ; from which ,
according to this supposition , the principle of good cannot rescue it ? So thật
they who ...
Page 94
BOOK the cause of all evil , then all evil falls out unavoidably , and by the power
of this infinitely evil principle , by which means not only all religion , but all virtue
and goodness will be taken out of the world , if this principle be infinite ; and if not
...
BOOK the cause of all evil , then all evil falls out unavoidably , and by the power
of this infinitely evil principle , by which means not only all religion , but all virtue
and goodness will be taken out of the world , if this principle be infinite ; and if not
...
Page 99
So that little advantage is _ 11 . gained for the clearing the true origin of evil by
this opinion ; for either God could have taken away evil out of matter , but would
not , or else would but could not . This last destroys God ' s omnipotency , the ...
So that little advantage is _ 11 . gained for the clearing the true origin of evil by
this opinion ; for either God could have taken away evil out of matter , but would
not , or else would but could not . This last destroys God ' s omnipotency , the ...
Page 100
0 BOOK 3 . This opinion makes God not to be the author of good , while it denies
him to be the author of evil . For either there was nothing else but evil in this
eternal matter , or there was a mixture of good and evil ; if nothing else but evil
which ...
0 BOOK 3 . This opinion makes God not to be the author of good , while it denies
him to be the author of evil . For either there was nothing else but evil in this
eternal matter , or there was a mixture of good and evil ; if nothing else but evil
which ...
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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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