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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The world could not be produced by a casual concourse of atoms , proved from
the nature and motion of Epicurus ' s atoms , and the phænomena of the universe
; especially the proSTILLINGFLEET , VOL . II . duction and nature of animals .
The world could not be produced by a casual concourse of atoms , proved from
the nature and motion of Epicurus ' s atoms , and the phænomena of the universe
; especially the proSTILLINGFLEET , VOL . II . duction and nature of animals .
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Such as attribute too much to the mechanical powers 2 . of matter and motion . I
begin with those who have gone about to weaken the known and generally
received arguments for God and Providence ; which I have at large shewed were
...
Such as attribute too much to the mechanical powers 2 . of matter and motion . I
begin with those who have gone about to weaken the known and generally
received arguments for God and Providence ; which I have at large shewed were
...
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But it is not so easy - to understand that motion , which imports an action should
be only a mode of the matter moved , as it is that figure belongs only to the thing
figured . For it is not possible for the figure to be any where else but in that body ...
But it is not so easy - to understand that motion , which imports an action should
be only a mode of the matter moved , as it is that figure belongs only to the thing
figured . For it is not possible for the figure to be any where else but in that body ...
Page 462
So that resistance must gradually weaken motion . And in the motion of projected
bodies , Id . part . ii . Des Cartes himself grants , That the motion continues n . 38 .
till it be hindered by the resistance it meets with ; and he saith , It is manifest ...
So that resistance must gradually weaken motion . And in the motion of projected
bodies , Id . part . ii . Des Cartes himself grants , That the motion continues n . 38 .
till it be hindered by the resistance it meets with ; and he saith , It is manifest ...
Page 466
For matter , he confesses , would rest , if God did not give motion to it ; and so it
must continue to rest , and there could be no motion at all . If it be meant that
every thing continues in the state God put it into , unless he appointed several
causes ...
For matter , he confesses , would rest , if God did not give motion to it ; and so it
must continue to rest , and there could be no motion at all . If it be meant that
every thing continues in the state God put it into , unless he appointed several
causes ...
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| Title | 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 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, Edward Stillingfleet |
| Author | Edward Stillingfleet |
| Publisher | University Press, 1836 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 17 Dec 2009 |
| Length | 542 pages |
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