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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Page 240
Or is it possible to imagine that man should be happy in another world without
God ' s promising it , and prescribing conditions in order to it ? If so , then this
happiness is no free gift of God , unless he hath the bestowing and promising of it
...
Or is it possible to imagine that man should be happy in another world without
God ' s promising it , and prescribing conditions in order to it ? If so , then this
happiness is no free gift of God , unless he hath the bestowing and promising of it
...
Page 293
And although there be some higher degree of life in such animals as Diodorus
Siculus speaks of , yet those fall so far short of mankind , that it is a wonder men
of sense could imagine the production of one could be an argument for the other .
And although there be some higher degree of life in such animals as Diodorus
Siculus speaks of , yet those fall so far short of mankind , that it is a wonder men
of sense could imagine the production of one could be an argument for the other .
Page 371
When the power imagined is such as we imagine , that is true religion . How can
it be true religion , if religion be a fear of a power imagined by the mind , or from
tales publicly allowed ? For if this be religion in general , true religion must be a ...
When the power imagined is such as we imagine , that is true religion . How can
it be true religion , if religion be a fear of a power imagined by the mind , or from
tales publicly allowed ? For if this be religion in general , true religion must be a ...
Page 417
Can they imagine the world should be made without any ends at all ? Is that
becoming the wisdom of the Maker ? Or would they not have these ends to be
known ? To what purpose are great and noble ends designed , if they are not to
be ...
Can they imagine the world should be made without any ends at all ? Is that
becoming the wisdom of the Maker ? Or would they not have these ends to be
known ? To what purpose are great and noble ends designed , if they are not to
be ...
Page 522
If I had been of such a quarrelsome humour , I would have undertaken to have
found out more contradictions in your papers than you imagine , and yet you
might have been confident you had been guilty of none at all . When I consider
the ...
If I had been of such a quarrelsome humour , I would have undertaken to have
found out more contradictions in your papers than you imagine , and yet you
might have been confident you had been guilty of none at all . When I consider
the ...
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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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