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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BOOK principle of reason , that a power infinite should raise - an insect into being
, without any passive principle out of which it was caused ? And if an infinite
power can do that , it may as well produce the world out of nothing , else the
power ...
BOOK principle of reason , that a power infinite should raise - an insect into being
, without any passive principle out of which it was caused ? And if an infinite
power can do that , it may as well produce the world out of nothing , else the
power ...
Page 93
And how can he have infinite power , if he hath CHAP . not the management of
things in the world ? And how can he have the management of things , if they be
liable to evil , which the other God , which is the principle of evil , may lay upon it
...
And how can he have infinite power , if he hath CHAP . not the management of
things in the world ? And how can he have the management of things , if they be
liable to evil , which the other God , which is the principle of evil , may lay upon it
...
Page 94
BOOK the cause of all evil , then all evil falls out unavoidably , and by the power
of this infinitely evil principle , by which means not only all religion , but all virtue
and goodness will be taken out of the world , if this principle be infinite ; and if not
...
BOOK the cause of all evil , then all evil falls out unavoidably , and by the power
of this infinitely evil principle , by which means not only all religion , but all virtue
and goodness will be taken out of the world , if this principle be infinite ; and if not
...
Page 404
There is no repugnancy at all in conceiving that an infinite Power should give a
being to that which had it not before ; for although the difference between not
being and being be so great , yet where we suppose a Power infinite in the cause
...
There is no repugnancy at all in conceiving that an infinite Power should give a
being to that which had it not before ; for although the difference between not
being and being be so great , yet where we suppose a Power infinite in the cause
...
Page 405
Because all God ' s ends are unsearchable by us , BOOK being kept close in the
abyss of his infinite dd 3 ORIGINES SACRĈ . 405 The modern atheistical
Hypotheses examined, and the Unreason- ableness of them shewed.
Because all God ' s ends are unsearchable by us , BOOK being kept close in the
abyss of his infinite dd 3 ORIGINES SACRĈ . 405 The modern atheistical
Hypotheses examined, and the Unreason- ableness of them shewed.
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