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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... laws , though he gives no particular reason of every positive precept . VI . The reason of God's creating man with freedom of will , largely shewed from Simplicius ; and the true account of the origin of evil . VII . God's permitting ...
... laws , though he gives no particular reason of every positive precept . VI . The reason of God's creating man with freedom of will , largely shewed from Simplicius ; and the true account of the origin of evil . VII . God's permitting ...
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... laws of the motion of matter . I begin with those who assert the eternity of the world as it is , among whom Aristotle hath borne the greatest name , who seems to have arrogated this opinion to himself ; for when he inquires into the ...
... laws of the motion of matter . I begin with those who assert the eternity of the world as it is , among whom Aristotle hath borne the greatest name , who seems to have arrogated this opinion to himself ; for when he inquires into the ...
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... laws and knowledge . On this account , therefore , we are not to seek for the ancient and genuine tradition of the world from the native and homebred Greeks , such as Aristotle and Epicurus , but from those who took the pains them ...
... laws and knowledge . On this account , therefore , we are not to seek for the ancient and genuine tradition of the world from the native and homebred Greeks , such as Aristotle and Epicurus , but from those who took the pains them ...
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... laws of demonstration ; but in- stead of them , proceeded only upon opinions and con- jectures . And as to this particular of the possibility of another way of production , besides that of genera- tion , he proves it from Aristotle's ...
... laws of demonstration ; but in- stead of them , proceeded only upon opinions and con- jectures . And as to this particular of the possibility of another way of production , besides that of genera- tion , he proves it from Aristotle's ...
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... laws of nature which are observed in the universe . 1. The Epicureans , according to their own prin- ciples , could have no certainty of the truth of this hypothesis . And that , 1. Because they could have no certain evidence of its ...
... laws of nature which are observed in the universe . 1. The Epicureans , according to their own prin- ciples , could have no certainty of the truth of this hypothesis . And that , 1. Because they could have no certain evidence of its ...
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