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 449
28 . space is the same with that of corporeal substance , Huet . Cens . and that
we can conceive nothing in it but extension . Cartes . c . 5 . Which they say is true
, if we speak of mathematical * quantity , but not of real and physical . But , saith ...
28 . space is the same with that of corporeal substance , Huet . Cens . and that
we can conceive nothing in it but extension . Cartes . c . 5 . Which they say is true
, if we speak of mathematical * quantity , but not of real and physical . But , saith ...
Page 451
Of things , the most general are substance , duration , order , number , and such
like , which extend to all kinds of things . And he saith , They may all be
comprehended under those two : Of intellectual or thinking substances ; or of
material , i . e ...
Of things , the most general are substance , duration , order , number , and such
like , which extend to all kinds of things . And he saith , They may all be
comprehended under those two : Of intellectual or thinking substances ; or of
material , i . e ...
Page 452
BOOK must be a thing or substance to which it belongs . All this appears very
well still ; only we must take notice , that all properties do assure us of a real
substance under them : which is very true , relating to physical bodies . But it is
possible ...
BOOK must be a thing or substance to which it belongs . All this appears very
well still ; only we must take notice , that all properties do assure us of a real
substance under them : which is very true , relating to physical bodies . But it is
possible ...
Page 453
II . tation of a thinking substance . For every thing which CHAP . we attribute to
body supposes extension , which is only . the mode of the thing extended ; as all
things attributed to our minds are different modes of thinking . And thus we come
to ...
II . tation of a thinking substance . For every thing which CHAP . we attribute to
body supposes extension , which is only . the mode of the thing extended ; as all
things attributed to our minds are different modes of thinking . And thus we come
to ...
Page 457
He answers plainly , That an an - _ nihilation of the substance of matter is
impossible , even to the power of God , because ... but he cannot destroy their
matter , i . e . their extension , which is a true substance , and substances are
indefectible .
He answers plainly , That an an - _ nihilation of the substance of matter is
impossible , even to the power of God , because ... but he cannot destroy their
matter , i . e . their extension , which is a true substance , and substances are
indefectible .
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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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