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 138
... and so was to be the standard and measure of all that follows . And when our
Saviour would reduce all things to the beginning , he instanceth in those words
which were pronounced after Eve was Mark x . formed . But from the beginning of
...
... and so was to be the standard and measure of all that follows . And when our
Saviour would reduce all things to the beginning , he instanceth in those words
which were pronounced after Eve was Mark x . formed . But from the beginning of
...
Page 274
For in the beginning of his history he pretends to give an account of the
beginning of all things : but it is such a one as plainly shews he was no friend to
religion ; for he takes away the very foundation of it , by supposing the world to be
...
For in the beginning of his history he pretends to give an account of the
beginning of all things : but it is such a one as plainly shews he was no friend to
religion ; for he takes away the very foundation of it , by supposing the world to be
...
Page 326
Being thus puffed up with a vain opinion of their own skill , they attempted to give
an account of the very beginning of the world ; and finding out what they thought
the main principle of which things were composed , they had no more to do but ...
Being thus puffed up with a vain opinion of their own skill , they attempted to give
an account of the very beginning of the world ; and finding out what they thought
the main principle of which things were composed , they had no more to do but ...
Page 367
Secondly , upon the sight of any thing that hath a beginning , to think also it had a
cause to determine the same to begin when it did , rather than sooner or later .
And was not this a very reasonable thought ? For what hath a beginning must ...
Secondly , upon the sight of any thing that hath a beginning , to think also it had a
cause to determine the same to begin when it did , rather than sooner or later .
And was not this a very reasonable thought ? For what hath a beginning must ...
Page 420
But the main thing was in the practice of virtue ; of which there is a short abstract
in the Golden Verses ; and Hierocles declares in the beginning , The design of
them all was to bring mankind to a likeness to the Divine nature . And in this ,
saith ...
But the main thing was in the practice of virtue ; of which there is a short abstract
in the Golden Verses ; and Hierocles declares in the beginning , The design of
them all was to bring mankind to a likeness to the Divine nature . And in this ,
saith ...
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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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