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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... infinite wis- dom and power , if neither of them are discernible in the being of the world ? And as the opinion of Epi- curus destroys religion , so doth that of Aristotle , which attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary ...
... infinite wis- dom and power , if neither of them are discernible in the being of the world ? And as the opinion of Epi- curus destroys religion , so doth that of Aristotle , which attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary ...
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... infinite reason and wisdom ; and when Theætetus expresseth himself in an academical way as to either of these opinions , the Hospes Eleatensis , who there acts the part of the philosopher , tells him , if he thought he were inclinable ...
... infinite reason and wisdom ; and when Theætetus expresseth himself in an academical way as to either of these opinions , the Hospes Eleatensis , who there acts the part of the philosopher , tells him , if he thought he were inclinable ...
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... infinite power , should produce the universe after another way , than any of those things are pro- duced in , which we observe in the world ? For we assert an infinite and eternal Being , which was the efficient cause of the world , who ...
... infinite power , should produce the universe after another way , than any of those things are pro- duced in , which we observe in the world ? For we assert an infinite and eternal Being , which was the efficient cause of the world , who ...
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... infinite power to him , by the same reason we must attribute it to matter . But whatever hath infinite power in it- self , hath a power upon something beyond itself ; but if God and matter have it both , they can never have power upon ...
... infinite power to him , by the same reason we must attribute it to matter . But whatever hath infinite power in it- self , hath a power upon something beyond itself ; but if God and matter have it both , they can never have power upon ...
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... 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 extends no farther than matter doth . So that a power of creation is implied in the very notion ...
... 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 extends no farther than matter doth . So that a power of creation is implied in the very notion ...
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