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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... Epicurus's atoms , and the phænomena of the universe ; especially the production and nature of animals . XVIII . Of the Cartesian hypothesis , that it cannot salve the origin of the universe without a Deity giving motion to matter Page ...
... Epicurus's atoms , and the phænomena of the universe ; especially the production and nature of animals . XVIII . Of the Cartesian hypothesis , that it cannot salve the origin of the universe without a Deity giving motion to matter Page ...
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... Epicurus's arguments against it refuted . The necessity of the belief of Providence in order to re- ligion . III . Providence proved from a consideration of the nature of God and the things of the world . Of the spirit of nature . IV ...
... Epicurus's arguments against it refuted . The necessity of the belief of Providence in order to re- ligion . III . Providence proved from a consideration of the nature of God and the things of the world . Of the spirit of nature . IV ...
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... produced by a casual concourse of atoms , proved from the nature and motion of Epicurus's atoms , and the phænomena of the universe ; especially the pro- STILLINGFLEET , VOL . II . B III . I. duction and nature of animals . XVIII.
... produced by a casual concourse of atoms , proved from the nature and motion of Epicurus's atoms , and the phænomena of the universe ; especially the pro- STILLINGFLEET , VOL . II . B III . I. duction and nature of animals . XVIII.
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... Epicurus the being of a Deity , if yet with him we add that the world was made by a casual concourse of atoms , all that part of religion which lies in obedience to the will of God is unavoidably destroyed . All that is left is only a ...
... Epicurus the being of a Deity , if yet with him we add that the world was made by a casual concourse of atoms , all that part of religion which lies in obedience to the will of God is unavoidably destroyed . All that is left is only a ...
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... Epicurus , but from those who took the pains them- selves to search into those records which were preserved among the elder and more knowing nations and al- though the nations they resorted to sought to advance their own reputation in ...
... Epicurus , but from those who took the pains them- selves to search into those records which were preserved among the elder and more knowing nations and al- though the nations they resorted to sought to advance their own reputation in ...
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