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 56
It would pity one to see what lamentable shifts the atomists are put to , to find out
a way for the production of mankind , viz . that our teeming mother the earth at
last cast forth some kind of bags like wombs upon the surface of the earth , and ...
It would pity one to see what lamentable shifts the atomists are put to , to find out
a way for the production of mankind , viz . that our teeming mother the earth at
last cast forth some kind of bags like wombs upon the surface of the earth , and ...
Page 146
For God saith , Let the waters bring forth every moving creature that hath life , viz .
fish and fowl ; and accordingly it is said , that the waters brought forth abundantly
every living creature after their kind , and every fowl after his kind . Ver . 24 .
For God saith , Let the waters bring forth every moving creature that hath life , viz .
fish and fowl ; and accordingly it is said , that the waters brought forth abundantly
every living creature after their kind , and every fowl after his kind . Ver . 24 .
Page 189
... which concerned the history of the world should be presently obliterated and
extinguished among them , but some kind of tradition would be still preserved ;
although BOOK by degrees it would be so much altered for ORIGINES SACRĈ .
... which concerned the history of the world should be presently obliterated and
extinguished among them , but some kind of tradition would be still preserved ;
although BOOK by degrees it would be so much altered for ORIGINES SACRĈ .
Page 283
... capable of propagating their kind , when , upon anatomical searches , no kind
of defect hath been found in them , as some imagined ? How come the species of
animals to be so determined and limited , that in the revolution of so many ages ...
... capable of propagating their kind , when , upon anatomical searches , no kind
of defect hath been found in them , as some imagined ? How come the species of
animals to be so determined and limited , that in the revolution of so many ages ...
Page 290
But it cannot be denied , that there have been among us . two very learned men ,
who have asserted a kind of spontaneous generation of animals ; I mean Dr .
Harvey Redi , p . 19 . and his Apologist . For Dr . Harvey , Redi observes , That ...
But it cannot be denied , that there have been among us . two very learned men ,
who have asserted a kind of spontaneous generation of animals ; I mean Dr .
Harvey Redi , p . 19 . and his Apologist . For Dr . Harvey , Redi observes , That ...
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