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 17
... possible for one of us , though never so little , to live and move in the womb for so many months , when it is so close , and shut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , saith he , should swallow a little bird , it would ...
... possible for one of us , though never so little , to live and move in the womb for so many months , when it is so close , and shut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , saith he , should swallow a little bird , it would ...
Page 49
... possible for them ever to meet for the contexture of bodies ? Now for this purpose he invented a motion of declination ; for finding the motion ad lineam , or ad perpendiculum as some call it , could not possibly pro- duce those ...
... possible for them ever to meet for the contexture of bodies ? Now for this purpose he invented a motion of declination ; for finding the motion ad lineam , or ad perpendiculum as some call it , could not possibly pro- duce those ...
Page 53
... possible , but as probably existent : I assume only then , ( that which is insisted on as probable , viz . ) that that space which lies between our atmosphere and the stars is empty of any other thing but only the rays of the stars ...
... possible , but as probably existent : I assume only then , ( that which is insisted on as probable , viz . ) that that space which lies between our atmosphere and the stars is empty of any other thing but only the rays of the stars ...
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... possible ; and nothing is implied in the notion of an existent creature beyond mere possibility of exist- ence : what is it then which gives actual existence to it ? That cannot be itself , for it would be necessarily existent . If ...
... possible ; and nothing is implied in the notion of an existent creature beyond mere possibility of exist- ence : what is it then which gives actual existence to it ? That cannot be itself , for it would be necessarily existent . If ...
Page 73
... possible ( after all this , and much more , recorded in the Scriptures , to express the holiness of God's nature , his hatred of sin , and his appointing a day of judgment for the solemn punishment of sinners ) to imagine that the ...
... possible ( after all this , and much more , recorded in the Scriptures , to express the holiness of God's nature , his hatred of sin , and his appointing a day of judgment for the solemn punishment of sinners ) to imagine that the ...
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