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 19
But do any of these arguments prove it impossible that God , having infinite
power , should produce the universe after another way , than any of those things
are produced in , which we observe in the world ? For we assert an infinite and ...
But do any of these arguments prove it impossible that God , having infinite
power , should produce the universe after another way , than any of those things
are produced in , which we observe in the world ? For we assert an infinite and ...
Page 20
And as to this particular of the possibility of another way of production , besides
that of generation , he proves it from ... that there is in that which is absolutely
nothing to be produced , the same must there be in that which is necessarily
existent .
And as to this particular of the possibility of another way of production , besides
that of generation , he proves it from ... that there is in that which is absolutely
nothing to be produced , the same must there be in that which is necessarily
existent .
Page 31
For that is all we understand by creation , viz . the producing of something out of
nothing , or which had nothing out of which it was produced . Now what
repugnancy is there to any free BOOK principle of reason , that a power infinite
should ...
For that is all we understand by creation , viz . the producing of something out of
nothing , or which had nothing out of which it was produced . Now what
repugnancy is there to any free BOOK principle of reason , that a power infinite
should ...
Page 100
But if it be said that good is not in matter , but God produced that out of nothing ;
then I reply , 1 . If God did produce good out of nothing , why did he not produce
matter out of nothing too ? If he were so powerful as to do the one , there could be
...
But if it be said that good is not in matter , but God produced that out of nothing ;
then I reply , 1 . If God did produce good out of nothing , why did he not produce
matter out of nothing too ? If he were so powerful as to do the one , there could be
...
Page 146
Accordingly in the production of beasts , we read , Let the earth bring forth the
living creature after his kind , cattle , and ... seminal principles of them were
contained in the matter out of which they were produced : which was otherwise in
man ...
Accordingly in the production of beasts , we read , Let the earth bring forth the
living creature after his kind , cattle , and ... seminal principles of them were
contained in the matter out of which they were produced : which was otherwise in
man ...
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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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