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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And as the opinion of Epicurus destroys religion , so doth that of Aristotle , which attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary emanation of it from the first cause , as light comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimonides ...
And as the opinion of Epicurus destroys religion , so doth that of Aristotle , which attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary emanation of it from the first cause , as light comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimonides ...
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But the latter Platonists look upon these as insufficient ways of probation , and therefore argue from those attributes of God , which they conceive most necessary and agreeable to God's nature , and by which the world was produced ...
But the latter Platonists look upon these as insufficient ways of probation , and therefore argue from those attributes of God , which they conceive most necessary and agreeable to God's nature , and by which the world was produced ...
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Whereas to make the communications of God's goodness ad extra necessary , and therefore to make the world from eternity , that he might have an object to exercise his goodness on , is to take as much off from the infinite perfection and ...
Whereas to make the communications of God's goodness ad extra necessary , and therefore to make the world from eternity , that he might have an object to exercise his goodness on , is to take as much off from the infinite perfection and ...
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Wherefore the preexistence of souls is a necessary result of the wisdom and goodness of God , who can no more fail to do that which is best , than he can to understand it . I now seriously II . inquire of such who love reason above ...
Wherefore the preexistence of souls is a necessary result of the wisdom and goodness of God , who can no more fail to do that which is best , than he can to understand it . I now seriously II . inquire of such who love reason above ...
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But whatever were the opinions of Plato and Pythagoras concerning the first origin of matter , we are certain that the Stoics generally asserted the improduction of matter , and make that to be as necessary a passive principle for the ...
But whatever were the opinions of Plato and Pythagoras concerning the first origin of matter , we are certain that the Stoics generally asserted the improduction of matter , and make that to be as necessary a passive principle for 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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