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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Page 64
... happiness to trouble himself with an inspection of the world , religion might then be indeed derived à rele- gendo , but not à religando ; there might be some plea- sure in contemplating his nature , but there could be no obligation to ...
... happiness to trouble himself with an inspection of the world , religion might then be indeed derived à rele- gendo , but not à religando ; there might be some plea- sure in contemplating his nature , but there could be no obligation to ...
Page 66
... happiness . This opinion of Epicurus made the more raised - spirited moralists so far contemn the unworthy apprehensions which he entertained of the Divine nature , that they degraded him from the very title of a philosopher in it , and ...
... happiness . This opinion of Epicurus made the more raised - spirited moralists so far contemn the unworthy apprehensions which he entertained of the Divine nature , that they degraded him from the very title of a philosopher in it , and ...
Page 67
... happiness ? And is it incon- sistent with the happiness of the Deity to take notice of the world , and order all things in it for his own glory ? Must so excellent a nature as God's was , by his own acknowledgment , be presently tired ...
... happiness ? And is it incon- sistent with the happiness of the Deity to take notice of the world , and order all things in it for his own glory ? Must so excellent a nature as God's was , by his own acknowledgment , be presently tired ...
Page 72
... happiness , and the means in order to it , ( which on that account are written with all imaginable perspicuity in Scripture , ) and the mo- ment of all other controversies be judged by their re- ference to these , there would be fewer ...
... happiness , and the means in order to it , ( which on that account are written with all imaginable perspicuity in Scripture , ) and the mo- ment of all other controversies be judged by their re- ference to these , there would be fewer ...
Page 107
... happiness of men's souls , there was a necessity of re- covery out of this condition . As to the degeneracy of the souls of men ; this was the common complaint of those philosophers who minded the government of themselves , and the prac ...
... happiness of men's souls , there was a necessity of re- covery out of this condition . As to the degeneracy of the souls of men ; this was the common complaint of those philosophers who minded the government of themselves , and the prac ...
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