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 93
And how can he have the management of things , if they be liable to evil , which
the other God , which is the principle of evil , may lay upon it ; from which ,
according to this supposition , the principle of good cannot rescue it ? So thật
they who ...
And how can he have the management of things , if they be liable to evil , which
the other God , which is the principle of evil , may lay upon it ; from which ,
according to this supposition , the principle of good cannot rescue it ? So thật
they who ...
Page 94
BOOK the cause of all evil , then all evil falls out unavoidably , and by the power
of this infinitely evil principle , by which means not only all religion , but all virtue
and goodness will be taken out of the world , if this principle be infinite ; and if not
...
BOOK the cause of all evil , then all evil falls out unavoidably , and by the power
of this infinitely evil principle , by which means not only all religion , but all virtue
and goodness will be taken out of the world , if this principle be infinite ; and if not
...
Page 95
Plutarch . opinion concerning the origin of evil , which did sup - CHAP . pose a
necessity of it in nature , as flowing from that passive principle out of which the
world was produced . Hence it was that Heraclitus , as Plutarch tells us ,
attributed ...
Plutarch . opinion concerning the origin of evil , which did sup - CHAP . pose a
necessity of it in nature , as flowing from that passive principle out of which the
world was produced . Hence it was that Heraclitus , as Plutarch tells us ,
attributed ...
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C BOOK among some who would seem to have more wit than others ; ) and it
had so great success therein , that he utterly renounced all principles tending that
way . The passage which he produces is certainly in Aristotle ; and it seems so ...
C BOOK among some who would seem to have more wit than others ; ) and it
had so great success therein , that he utterly renounced all principles tending that
way . The passage which he produces is certainly in Aristotle ; and it seems so ...
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But the seeking this is looking after another principle , which he calls the principle
of motion . Which those who asserted from the beginning , ran themselves into
difficulties , although they asserted matter to be one ; but those who went no ...
But the seeking this is looking after another principle , which he calls the principle
of motion . Which those who asserted from the beginning , ran themselves into
difficulties , although they asserted matter to be one ; but those who went no ...
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