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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The particular ways whereby the heathen mythology arose . Attributing the general history of the world to their own nation . The corruption of Hebraisms . Alteration of names . Ambiguity of sense in the Oriental languages . VI .
The particular ways whereby the heathen mythology arose . Attributing the general history of the world to their own nation . The corruption of Hebraisms . Alteration of names . Ambiguity of sense in the Oriental languages . VI .
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... and whence he derived them , without forcing the words of Moses into such a sense , which the plainness and perspicuity of the writings of them not capable to admit of . But I will ert.Proæn . p . 7 . Moses argue II .
... and whence he derived them , without forcing the words of Moses into such a sense , which the plainness and perspicuity of the writings of them not capable to admit of . But I will ert.Proæn . p . 7 . Moses argue II .
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For although the philosophers we now speak of did assert a Deity , which in some 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 ...
For although the philosophers we now speak of did assert a Deity , which in some 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 ...
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... are so far from conceiving this hypothesis to be repugnant to the text of Moses , that Volkelius they conceive it to be the genuine sense of it , viz . that there was a preexistent matter , out of which God C. 4 . formed the world .
... are so far from conceiving this hypothesis to be repugnant to the text of Moses , that Volkelius they conceive it to be the genuine sense of it , viz . that there was a preexistent matter , out of which God C. 4 . formed the world .
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III . sense . Usu Part . 1. xi . BOOK of nothing , but 87 ) . It is therefore a very weak manner of arguing , that , because xn is sometimes used for no more than wy , therefore the world was created out of preexistent matter ; all that ...
III . sense . Usu Part . 1. xi . BOOK of nothing , but 87 ) . It is therefore a very weak manner of arguing , that , because xn is sometimes used for no more than wy , therefore the world was created out of preexistent matter ; all 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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