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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... object to exercise his goodness upon ; as the sun disperseth his light as soon as he is himself . True , were God of the nature of the sun , it would be so with him , or were the sun of the nature of God , it would not be so with it ...
... object to exercise his goodness upon ; as the sun disperseth his light as soon as he is himself . True , were God of the nature of the sun , it would be so with him , or were the sun of the nature of God , it would not be so with it ...
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... object to exercise his goodness on , is to take as much off from the infinite perfection and self - sufficiency of the Divine nature , as it would seem to flatter his goodness . For God cannot be himself without his goodness ; and if ...
... object to exercise his goodness on , is to take as much off from the infinite perfection and self - sufficiency of the Divine nature , as it would seem to flatter his goodness . For God cannot be himself without his goodness ; and if ...
Page 38
... object represented every way it could be before he passed his judgment ; yet this prudent caution would do him no good for this hypo- thesis , unless he were so wise as to stay till this world were crumbled into atoms again , that by ...
... object represented every way it could be before he passed his judgment ; yet this prudent caution would do him no good for this hypo- thesis , unless he were so wise as to stay till this world were crumbled into atoms again , that by ...
Page 49
... object , that , according to the prin- ciples of Epicurus , there could have been no concourse at all of atoms in an infinite space , on the two grounds he went on ; which were the natural descent of atoms , and the æqui - velocity of ...
... object , that , according to the prin- ciples of Epicurus , there could have been no concourse at all of atoms in an infinite space , on the two grounds he went on ; which were the natural descent of atoms , and the æqui - velocity of ...
Page 52
... objects and operations on the or- gans of sense , those affections which are mistaken for real qualities , & c . But that all those effects which are seen in nature should have no other cause but the dif- ferent configuration and motion ...
... objects and operations on the or- gans of sense , those affections which are mistaken for real qualities , & c . But that all those effects which are seen in nature should have no other cause but the dif- ferent configuration and motion ...
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