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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And was not this a worthy mathematical supposition , for one who would undertake to give an account of the origin of the universe without a Deity ? This motion of descent , by reason of the gravity of atoms , would not serve his turn ...
And was not this a worthy mathematical supposition , for one who would undertake to give an account of the origin of the universe without a Deity ? This motion of descent , by reason of the gravity of atoms , would not serve his turn ...
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... the same force continuing would serve to cut off all angles which are supposed in them , by their frequent occursions against each other ; and so when the angles were cut off , they would become spherical . 3.
... the same force continuing would serve to cut off all angles which are supposed in them , by their frequent occursions against each other ; and so when the angles were cut off , they would become spherical . 3.
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BOOK if Epicurus had no other design in asserting a Deity , than ( as many ancient philosophers imagined ) to avoid the imputation of direct atheism , and yet to take away all foundations of religion , he must needs be said to serve his ...
BOOK if Epicurus had no other design in asserting a Deity , than ( as many ancient philosophers imagined ) to avoid the imputation of direct atheism , and yet to take away all foundations of religion , he must needs be said to serve his ...
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III . eye ( as those who serve God for their own ends , as chap . they say , are apt to have ) to reward and punishment . And I much doubt that good woman whom the story goes of , who in an enthusiastic posture ran up and down the ...
III . eye ( as those who serve God for their own ends , as chap . they say , are apt to have ) to reward and punishment . And I much doubt that good woman whom the story goes of , who in an enthusiastic posture ran up and down the ...
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Some therefore finding , that , in the present state of the world , matter will not serve for all the noted and common phenomena of the world , have called in the help of a spirit of nature , which may serve instead of a man - midwife ...
Some therefore finding , that , in the present state of the world , matter will not serve for all the noted and common phenomena of the world , have called in the help of a spirit of nature , which may serve instead of a man - midwife ...
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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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