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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Every thing that comes into being , and is subject to dissolution , hath two
observable mutations in it : the one is whereby it grows from less to greater , and
from worse to better ; and this is called generation , and the height of this
mutation ...
Every thing that comes into being , and is subject to dissolution , hath two
observable mutations in it : the one is whereby it grows from less to greater , and
from worse to better ; and this is called generation , and the height of this
mutation ...
Page 153
And besides , the rain - water runs most upon the surface of the earth , and so
doth rather swell the rivers , which thereby run with greater force in their passage
to the ocean , and doth not lodge itself presently in the earth ; especially if it ...
And besides , the rain - water runs most upon the surface of the earth , and so
doth rather swell the rivers , which thereby run with greater force in their passage
to the ocean , and doth not lodge itself presently in the earth ; especially if it ...
Page 474
Des Cartes saith was in this manner : That the matter cip . par . iii . De D . 54 of
the first element increased by the attrition of the particles of the second ; and
there being greater quantity of it than was necessary to fill up the interstices
between ...
Des Cartes saith was in this manner : That the matter cip . par . iii . De D . 54 of
the first element increased by the attrition of the particles of the second ; and
there being greater quantity of it than was necessary to fill up the interstices
between ...
Page 499
But we nowhere find greater plainness and sincerity required , nowhere more
strict and severe prohibitions of dissimulation in religion , nor more general
precepts about speaking truth , than in the writings of the New Testament . But
might not ...
But we nowhere find greater plainness and sincerity required , nowhere more
strict and severe prohibitions of dissimulation in religion , nor more general
precepts about speaking truth , than in the writings of the New Testament . But
might not ...
Page 510
And where all these concur , it is hardly possible to suppose greater evidence to
be given of the truth of a thing ; and now I shall shew that all these do exactly
agree to the Apostles ' testimony concerning the resurrection of Christ . 1 .
And where all these concur , it is hardly possible to suppose greater evidence to
be given of the truth of a thing ; and now I shall shew that all these do exactly
agree to the Apostles ' testimony concerning the resurrection of Christ . 1 .
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