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 461
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 ...
Page 468
BOOK be not violent , then a body in circular motion must endeavour to preserve
itself in that state , and not to recede from it , as Des Cartes supposes . Mons . Du
Hamel objects against this law , that permanent beings do indeed endeavour to ...
BOOK be not violent , then a body in circular motion must endeavour to preserve
itself in that state , and not to recede from it , as Des Cartes supposes . Mons . Du
Hamel objects against this law , that permanent beings do indeed endeavour to ...
Page 469
How then comes motion in CHAP . a right line to come from God ' s immutability ,
and not - in a circle ? Because it is determined in every instant towards a right
line . This ought to have been made more evident than from the instance of the ...
How then comes motion in CHAP . a right line to come from God ' s immutability ,
and not - in a circle ? Because it is determined in every instant towards a right
line . This ought to have been made more evident than from the instance of the ...
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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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