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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... sense in the Oriental languages . VI . Attributing the actions of many to one person ; as in Jupiter , Bacchus , & c . VII . The remainders of Scripture - history among the heathens . The name of God , Chaos : formation of man ...
... sense in the Oriental languages . VI . Attributing the actions of many to one person ; as in Jupiter , Bacchus , & c . VII . The remainders of Scripture - history among the heathens . The name of God , Chaos : formation of man ...
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... of Moses into such a sense , which the plainness and perspicuity of the writings of Moses argue them not capable to admit of . But I will ert . Procem . P. 7 . not deny , from those concurrent testimonies of Her- CHAP 6 ORIGINES SACRE .
... of Moses into such a sense , which the plainness and perspicuity of the writings of Moses argue them not capable to admit of . But I will ert . Procem . P. 7 . not deny , from those concurrent testimonies of Her- CHAP 6 ORIGINES SACRE .
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... sense might be called the cause of the world , yet they withal asserted , that the world was coequal with God himself ; and so , though there might be some priority in order of causes between them , yet there was none in order of time ...
... sense might be called the cause of the world , yet they withal asserted , that the world was coequal with God himself ; and so , though there might be some priority in order of causes between them , yet there was none in order of time ...
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... sense of it , viz . that Rel . I. ii . there was a preexistent matter , out of which God c . 4 . formed the world . But I would willingly understand how Moses would have expressed that matter itself was created , supposing it had been ...
... sense of it , viz . that Rel . I. ii . there was a preexistent matter , out of which God c . 4 . formed the world . But I would willingly understand how Moses would have expressed that matter itself was created , supposing it had been ...
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... sense . BOOK of nothing , but . It is therefore a very weak man- ner of arguing , that , because 7 is sometimes used for no more than my , therefore the world was created out of preexistent matter ; all that can rationally be inferred ...
... sense . BOOK of nothing , but . It is therefore a very weak man- ner of arguing , that , because 7 is sometimes used for no more than my , therefore the world was created out of preexistent matter ; all that can rationally be inferred ...
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