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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... force at all upon the generality of the world , who are only allured by hopes , or awed by fears , to that which of their choice they would be glad to be freed from . Be- sides , what expressions of gratitude can be left to God for his ...
... force at all upon the generality of the world , who are only allured by hopes , or awed by fears , to that which of their choice they would be glad to be freed from . Be- sides , what expressions of gratitude can be left to God for his ...
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... force of nature , without any reason or counsel ; to which he opposeth the other opinion , that they are made μετὰ λόγου τε καὶ ἐπιστήμης θείας ἀπὸ becũ yiyvoμévns , by a Divine power , with infinite reason and wisdom ; and when ...
... force of nature , without any reason or counsel ; to which he opposeth the other opinion , that they are made μετὰ λόγου τε καὶ ἐπιστήμης θείας ἀπὸ becũ yiyvoμévns , by a Divine power , with infinite reason and wisdom ; and when ...
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... force with any can- did inquirers after truth and reason , which hath been lately pleaded in the behalf of that Pythagorean hy- pothesis of the preexistence of souls , viz . that if it be good for men's souls to be at all , the sooner ...
... force with any can- did inquirers after truth and reason , which hath been lately pleaded in the behalf of that Pythagorean hy- pothesis of the preexistence of souls , viz . that if it be good for men's souls to be at all , the sooner ...
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... force and importance of that word the contrary cannot be collected : but if other places of Scripture compared , and the evidence of reason , do make it clear that there could be no pre- existent matter which was uncreated , then it ...
... force and importance of that word the contrary cannot be collected : but if other places of Scripture compared , and the evidence of reason , do make it clear that there could be no pre- existent matter which was uncreated , then it ...
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... force at all in them , unless they can extrude a Deity quite out of the world ; for it is most evident that it was not so much the truth , as the ser- viceableness of this hypothesis , which hath given it entertainment among men of ...
... force at all in them , unless they can extrude a Deity quite out of the world ; for it is most evident that it was not so much the truth , as the ser- viceableness of this hypothesis , which hath given it entertainment among men of ...
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