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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What apprehensions can we have of God's infinite wisdom and power , if neither of them are discernible in the being of the world ? And as the opinion of Epicurus destroys religion , so doth that of Aristotle , which attributes eternity ...
What apprehensions can we have of God's infinite wisdom and power , if neither of them are discernible in the being of the world ? And as the opinion of Epicurus destroys religion , so doth that of Aristotle , which attributes eternity ...
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... without any reason or counsel ; to which he opposeth the other opinion , that they are made μετά λόγου τε και επιστήμης θείας από Deci yeyouéins , by a Divine power , with infinite reason and wisdom ; and when Theætetus expresseth ...
... without any reason or counsel ; to which he opposeth the other opinion , that they are made μετά λόγου τε και επιστήμης θείας από Deci yeyouéins , by a Divine power , with infinite reason and wisdom ; and when Theætetus expresseth ...
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But do any of these arguments prove it impossible that God , having infinite power , should produce the universe after another way , than any of those things are produced in , which we observe in the world ? For we assert an infinite ...
But do any of these arguments prove it impossible that God , having infinite power , should produce the universe after another way , than any of those things are produced in , which we observe in the world ? For we assert an infinite ...
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And besides , if we acknowledge God to have his being from himself , and on that account attribute infinite power to him , by the same reason we must attribute it to matter . But whatever hath infinite power in itself , hath a power ...
And besides , if we acknowledge God to have his being from himself , and on that account attribute infinite power to him , by the same reason we must attribute it to matter . But whatever hath infinite power in itself , hath a power ...
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3 . power to produce something out of nothing , which is CHAP . implied in the very notion of infinite power ; for if it be confined to any matter , the power is not infinite , because we cannot but conceive the bounds of it ; for it ...
3 . power to produce something out of nothing , which is CHAP . implied in the very notion of infinite power ; for if it be confined to any matter , the power is not infinite , because we cannot but conceive the bounds of it ; for it ...
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