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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For , saith he , if either of us cease breathing but for an hour , our motion and life is gone : how is it then possible for one of us , though never so little , to live and move in the womb for so many months , when it is ...
For , saith he , if either of us cease breathing but for an hour , our motion and life is gone : how is it then possible for one of us , though never so little , to live and move in the womb for so many months , when it is ...
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221 . moved downwards thus in a parallel line , how was it CHAP . 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 ...
221 . moved downwards thus in a parallel line , how was it CHAP . 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 ...
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... of that disseminated vacuity which is presumed to be in the world , and because a coacervate vacuity is not only asserted as possible , but as probably existent : I assume only then , ( that which is insisted on as probable , viz . ) ...
... of that disseminated vacuity which is presumed to be in the world , and because a coacervate vacuity is not only asserted as possible , but as probably existent : I assume only then , ( that which is insisted on as probable , viz . ) ...
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The mode of existence in a creature is but contingent and possible ; and nothing is implied in the notion of an existent creature beyond mere possibility of existence : what is it then which gives actual existence to it ?
The mode of existence in a creature is but contingent and possible ; and nothing is implied in the notion of an existent creature beyond mere possibility of existence : what is it then which gives actual existence to it ?
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And is it 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 ...
And is it 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 ...
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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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