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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... EVIL . I. Of the being of Providence . II . 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 ...
... EVIL . I. Of the being of Providence . II . 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 ...
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... Physic . sect . I. Eccl . viii . 17 . cause though a man labour to seek it out ; yea fur- ther , though a wise man think to know it , yet shall he not be able to find it . CHAP . III . OF THE ORIGIN OF EVIL . 62 ORIGINES SACRÆ .
... Physic . sect . I. Eccl . viii . 17 . cause though a man labour to seek it out ; yea fur- ther , though a wise man think to know it , yet shall he not be able to find it . CHAP . III . OF THE ORIGIN OF EVIL . 62 ORIGINES SACRÆ .
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... EVIL . I. Of the being of Providence . II . Epicurus's arguments against it refuted . The necessity of the belief of Providence in order to religion . III . Providence proved from a consideration of the nature of God and the things of ...
... EVIL . I. Of the being of Providence . II . Epicurus's arguments against it refuted . The necessity of the belief of Providence in order to religion . III . Providence proved from a consideration of the nature of God and the things of ...
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... evil ; the other concerns the dispensations of Providence , whence it comes to pass that good men fare so hard in the world , when the bad triumph and flourish . If these two can be cleared with any satisfaction to reason , it will be ...
... evil ; the other concerns the dispensations of Providence , whence it comes to pass that good men fare so hard in the world , when the bad triumph and flourish . If these two can be cleared with any satisfaction to reason , it will be ...
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... evil ; for if there be a hand of Providence which orders all things in the world , how comes evil then into it , without God's being the author of it ? Which is a speculation of as great depth as necessity , it highly concerning us to ...
... evil ; for if there be a hand of Providence which orders all things in the world , how comes evil then into it , without God's being the author of it ? Which is a speculation of as great depth as necessity , it highly concerning us to ...
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