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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Supposing then that there were such an excellent Being in the world , which was completely happy in himself , and thought it an impairing of his happiness to trouble himself with an inspection of the world , religion might then be ...
Supposing then that there were such an excellent Being in the world , which was completely happy in himself , and thought it an impairing of his happiness to trouble himself with an inspection of the world , religion might then be ...
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... of all his softness and effeminacy , would yet entertain some counsels for the safety and good of his empire : but Epicurus's Deity is of so tender a nature , that the least thought of business would quite spoil his happiness .
... of all his softness and effeminacy , would yet entertain some counsels for the safety and good of his empire : but Epicurus's Deity is of so tender a nature , that the least thought of business would quite spoil his happiness .
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Would Epicurus then count this a part of his happiness ? And is it inconsistent 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 ...
Would Epicurus then count this a part of his happiness ? And is it inconsistent 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 ...
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And could men but rest contented with those things which concern their eternal happiness , and the means in order to it , ( which on that account are written with all imaginable perspicuity in Scripture , ) and the moment of all other ...
And could men but rest contented with those things which concern their eternal happiness , and the means in order to it , ( which on that account are written with all imaginable perspicuity in Scripture , ) and the moment of all other ...
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That men's souls are in a very degenerate condition ; that the most rational account of it is , that man , by the act of his own will , brought himself into it ; and that , in order to the happiness of men's souls , there was a ...
That men's souls are in a very degenerate condition ; that the most rational account of it is , that man , by the act of his own will , brought himself into it ; and that , in order to the happiness of men's souls , there was a ...
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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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