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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Page 15
... looked on as a common notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nihil fit , which was the main argument used Vid . Laert . by them to prove the eternity of the world , and by mocriti . others , to prove the preexistence of matter . So ...
... looked on as a common notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nihil fit , which was the main argument used Vid . Laert . by them to prove the eternity of the world , and by mocriti . others , to prove the preexistence of matter . So ...
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... looked upon 377 . constitutionem sylva to be opus providentiæ ; which I suppose relates not only to the bringing of matter into form , but to the production of matter itself . But after this he takes a great deal of pains to search out ...
... looked upon 377 . constitutionem sylva to be opus providentiæ ; which I suppose relates not only to the bringing of matter into form , but to the production of matter itself . But after this he takes a great deal of pains to search out ...
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... looked on the undetermined and confused matter to have been coeval with God himself , and not produced by him . And if Numenius be as much to be credited in this , as when he calls Plato Moses Atticus , then the creation of universal ...
... looked on the undetermined and confused matter to have been coeval with God himself , and not produced by him . And if Numenius be as much to be credited in this , as when he calls Plato Moses Atticus , then the creation of universal ...
Page 69
... world . The most exquisite mechanism cannot put an engine beyond the necessity of being looked after . Can we then think this dull , unactive matter , merely by III . BOOK the force of its first motion , F 3 ORIGINES SACRE . 69.
... world . The most exquisite mechanism cannot put an engine beyond the necessity of being looked after . Can we then think this dull , unactive matter , merely by III . BOOK the force of its first motion , F 3 ORIGINES SACRE . 69.
Page 87
... looked abroad in the world , they could not but observe some strange irregularities in the converse among men . What debaucheries , contentions , rapines , fightings , and destroying each other , and that with the greatest cruelty , and ...
... looked abroad in the world , they could not but observe some strange irregularities in the converse among men . What debaucheries , contentions , rapines , fightings , and destroying each other , and that with the greatest cruelty , and ...
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