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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... whole religion of Moses is overthrown , all his CHAP . miracles are but impostures , all the hopes which are Maimon . grounded on the promises of God are vain and fruit- More Ne- less . For if the world did of necessity exist , then God ...
... whole religion of Moses is overthrown , all his CHAP . miracles are but impostures , all the hopes which are Maimon . grounded on the promises of God are vain and fruit- More Ne- less . For if the world did of necessity exist , then God ...
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... whole universe . For it appears from Diogenes Laertius , that the Egyptians did con- Diog . La- stantly believe that the world had a beginning , and was corruptible ; that it was spherical , and the stars were of the nature of fire ...
... whole universe . For it appears from Diogenes Laertius , that the Egyptians did con- Diog . La- stantly believe that the world had a beginning , and was corruptible ; that it was spherical , and the stars were of the nature of fire ...
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... whole universe , or any part of it , any further than God himself hath declared it to us . Now we see the world exists ; we have cause to adore that goodness of God , which not only gave a being to the universe , but continually upholds ...
... whole universe , or any part of it , any further than God himself hath declared it to us . Now we see the world exists ; we have cause to adore that goodness of God , which not only gave a being to the universe , but continually upholds ...
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... whole world was , viz . that maxim which Lipsius attributes to Democritus , but was embraced by all those philosophers who denied production of matter , μηδὲν ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος γίνεσθαι , μηδὲ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν φθείρεσθαι , that nothing could ...
... whole world was , viz . that maxim which Lipsius attributes to Democritus , but was embraced by all those philosophers who denied production of matter , μηδὲν ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος γίνεσθαι , μηδὲ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν φθείρεσθαι , that nothing could ...
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... whole matter ; if in a part only , he cannot be im- mense ; if in the whole , as his adequate place , how could he then ever frame the world ? For either he must then recede from that part in which he was , and contract himself into a ...
... whole matter ; if in a part only , he cannot be im- mense ; if in the whole , as his adequate place , how could he then ever frame the world ? For either he must then recede from that part in which he was , and contract himself into a ...
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