Origines Sacrae: Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1797 - Apologetics |
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... should it come to pass that the oldest philofophers should fo readily and unanimously em- brace that opinion which afferted the production of the world ? Was it not a ftrong prefumption of the novity of the universe , that all nations ...
... should it come to pass that the oldest philofophers should fo readily and unanimously em- brace that opinion which afferted the production of the world ? Was it not a ftrong prefumption of the novity of the universe , that all nations ...
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... yet was incorruptible , therefore he concludes it impoffible it should be fo with the uni- verfe . By which we evidently fee what the grand principles Cœlo , 1. i . cap . 10 . Vid . Laert . in Vit . De mocriti . ORIGINES SACRÆ . 13.
... yet was incorruptible , therefore he concludes it impoffible it should be fo with the uni- verfe . By which we evidently fee what the grand principles Cœlo , 1. i . cap . 10 . Vid . Laert . in Vit . De mocriti . ORIGINES SACRÆ . 13.
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... should fwal- low a little bird , it would prefently die as foon as it came into the ftomach ; how much more if it were in the belly ? If we should be but for few days without eating and drinking , we could not live ; how can a child ...
... should fwal- low a little bird , it would prefently die as foon as it came into the ftomach ; how much more if it were in the belly ? If we should be but for few days without eating and drinking , we could not live ; how can a child ...
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... should continue , by mere neceffity of nature , without any intervention of the will or actions of And fo there could be no fuch difference as that of good and bad men in the world ; for , if the lettings men . 11 . lettings forth of ...
... should continue , by mere neceffity of nature , without any intervention of the will or actions of And fo there could be no fuch difference as that of good and bad men in the world ; for , if the lettings men . 11 . lettings forth of ...
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... should be otherwise understood , than in the fame fense that we believe a chaos to have gone be- fore the bringing the world into the order it is now in . And in that sense may those places in Plutarch be interpreted , ε γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ...
... should be otherwise understood , than in the fame fense that we believe a chaos to have gone be- fore the bringing the world into the order it is now in . And in that sense may those places in Plutarch be interpreted , ε γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ...
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afferted againſt Anaxagoras Anaximander ancient animals anſwer Ariftotle atoms becauſe befides bodies BOOK Cartes caufe cauſe Chalcidius Chrift Chriftian Cicero confider Dæmon defign deftroyed Democritus difcourfe Diodorus Siculus Divine doth earth Egyptians Epicurus eſpecially eternal evil exift exiſtence extenfion faid faith fame feems fenfe ferve feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome foul fpeaks ftill ftrange fubftance fuch things fufficient fuppofe give God's goodneſs greateſt Greece Greeks hath himſelf hypothefis impoffible infinite itſelf Lucretius mankind matter mind Mofes moft moſt motion muft muſt nature neceffary neceffity obferved opinion paffage particles Pelafgi perfons Phaleg philofophers Plato Plutarch poffible prefent preferved principles puniſhment purpoſe Pythagoras queftion reafon reft religion Scriptures ſeems ſenſe ſeveral ſome ſpeak Strabo ſuppoſe teftimony thefe themſelves thence theſe things thofe thoſe tion truth underſtand univerfe unleſs uſe whofe worship δὲ καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τῶν