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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Page 20
... shew μ kaτà TηV άTO- δεικτικὴν ἐπιστήμην , καθ ̓ ἣν ἐπαγγέλλονται Ἕλληνες περὶ Θεοῦ τε καὶ κτίσεως τοὺς λόγους ποιεῖν , τοῦτο πεποιηκότας , ἀλλ ̓ εἰκασμῷ τὸ δοκοῦν διορισαμένους , that the Greek philoso- phers , in their discourses ...
... shew μ kaτà TηV άTO- δεικτικὴν ἐπιστήμην , καθ ̓ ἣν ἐπαγγέλλονται Ἕλληνες περὶ Θεοῦ τε καὶ κτίσεως τοὺς λόγους ποιεῖν , τοῦτο πεποιηκότας , ἀλλ ̓ εἰκασμῷ τὸ δοκοῦν διορισαμένους , that the Greek philoso- phers , in their discourses ...
Page 23
... shew or display it upon , God cannot be perfect nor happy without his creatures , because these are necessary issues of his goodness ; and consequently we make the being of the creatures necessary to his being God , which is the highest ...
... shew or display it upon , God cannot be perfect nor happy without his creatures , because these are necessary issues of his goodness ; and consequently we make the being of the creatures necessary to his being God , which is the highest ...
Page 51
... his atoms , with all their occursions , would ever produce those things which are in the universe . run through the noted phenomena of the universe , and To III . BOOK to shew how insufficient an account the E 2 ORIGINES SACRE . 51.
... his atoms , with all their occursions , would ever produce those things which are in the universe . run through the noted phenomena of the universe , and To III . BOOK to shew how insufficient an account the E 2 ORIGINES SACRE . 51.
Page 52
... shew how insufficient an account the Epicureans are able to give of them from a fortuitous concourse of atoms , is a task too large to be here undertaken . There are only three things which I shall rather sug- gest , than insist upon ...
... shew how insufficient an account the Epicureans are able to give of them from a fortuitous concourse of atoms , is a task too large to be here undertaken . There are only three things which I shall rather sug- gest , than insist upon ...
Page 77
... shew that the grounds of our religion art . 1. Esti- are not repugnant to natural reason , I shall rather um in Sen- make use of the testimony of such who professed to be followers of nothing else but reason and philosophy : among whom ...
... shew that the grounds of our religion art . 1. Esti- are not repugnant to natural reason , I shall rather um in Sen- make use of the testimony of such who professed to be followers of nothing else but reason and philosophy : among whom ...
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