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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... clear that there could be no pre - exiftent matter which was uncreated , then it will neceffarily follow that creation must be taken in its proper fenfe . And in this fenfe it is evident , that not only Jews and Christians , but even ...
... clear that there could be no pre - exiftent matter which was uncreated , then it will neceffarily follow that creation must be taken in its proper fenfe . And in this fenfe it is evident , that not only Jews and Christians , but even ...
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... clear , ampliandum eft : so Epi- curus would have the object represented every way it could be before he paffed his judgment ; yet this prudent caution would do him no good for this hy- pothefis , unless he were fo wife as to ftay till ...
... clear , ampliandum eft : so Epi- curus would have the object represented every way it could be before he paffed his judgment ; yet this prudent caution would do him no good for this hy- pothefis , unless he were fo wife as to ftay till ...
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... clear , but there are two grand objections behind , which have been the continual exercife of the wits of inquifitive men almost in all ages of the world . The one concerns the firft origin of evil ; the other con- cerns the ...
... clear , but there are two grand objections behind , which have been the continual exercife of the wits of inquifitive men almost in all ages of the world . The one concerns the firft origin of evil ; the other con- cerns the ...
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... clear and rational as this is . 4. That the most material circumftances of this account are attefted by the Heathens themfelves . 1. That if the Scriptures be true , God cannot be the author of fin . For if the Scriptures be true , we ...
... clear and rational as this is . 4. That the most material circumftances of this account are attefted by the Heathens themfelves . 1. That if the Scriptures be true , God cannot be the author of fin . For if the Scriptures be true , we ...
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... clear to them , that the aútekźciov they were wont to extol fo high , was ( in the state man was now in ) but a more noble name for slavery ; when themselves could not but confefs the porn , or inclination in the foul , was fo ftrong to ...
... clear to them , that the aútekźciov they were wont to extol fo high , was ( in the state man was now in ) but a more noble name for slavery ; when themselves could not but confefs the porn , or inclination in the foul , was fo ftrong to ...
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