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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... , which attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary emanation of it from the first cause , as light comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimonides well observes , II . voch . p . ii . c . N ORIGINES SACRE .
... , which attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary emanation of it from the first cause , as light comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimonides well observes , II . voch . p . ii . c . N ORIGINES SACRE .
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... necessary and agreeable to God's nature , and by which the world was produced , if at all ; so that by the same arguments whereby we prove that the world was made by God , they prove it to have been from all eternity . It was well and ...
... necessary and agreeable to God's nature , and by which the world was produced , if at all ; so that by the same arguments whereby we prove that the world was made by God , they prove it to have been from all eternity . It was well and ...
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... necessary issues of his goodness ; and consequently we make the being of the creatures necessary to his being God , which is the highest derogation from the absolute perfection of the Divine nature . We assert then so much goodness in ...
... necessary issues of his goodness ; and consequently we make the being of the creatures necessary to his being God , which is the highest derogation from the absolute perfection of the Divine nature . We assert then so much goodness in ...
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... necessary result of the wisdom and good- ness of God , who can no more fail to do that which is best , than he can to understand it . I now seriously II . inquire of such who love reason above Plato 24 ORIGINES SACRE .
... necessary result of the wisdom and good- ness of God , who can no more fail to do that which is best , than he can to understand it . I now seriously II . inquire of such who love reason above Plato 24 ORIGINES SACRE .
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... necessary a passive principle for the being of the world , as God is the active and efficient cause . Zenon . So Laert . V. Diogenes Laertius reports of the Stoical principles con- cerning the origin of the universe : Δοκεῖ δ ̓ αὐτοῖς ...
... necessary a passive principle for the being of the world , as God is the active and efficient cause . Zenon . So Laert . V. Diogenes Laertius reports of the Stoical principles con- cerning the origin of the universe : Δοκεῖ δ ̓ αὐτοῖς ...
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