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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... common opinion pro- pounded and rejected . The Hellens were not the firft inhabitants of Greece , but the Pelafgi . The large fpread of them over the parts of Greece . XII . Of their language different from the Greeks . XIII . Whence ...
... common opinion pro- pounded and rejected . The Hellens were not the firft inhabitants of Greece , but the Pelafgi . The large fpread of them over the parts of Greece . XII . Of their language different from the Greeks . XIII . Whence ...
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... common bank , fo that there could be no certain and convictive evidence given to a fhuffling philofopher that things were ever otherwife than they are ; they found it moft defenfible to affert that the world never had a beginning , nor ...
... common bank , fo that there could be no certain and convictive evidence given to a fhuffling philofopher that things were ever otherwife than they are ; they found it moft defenfible to affert that the world never had a beginning , nor ...
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... common notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nibil fit , which was the main ar- gument used by them to prove the eternity of the world , and by others , to prove the pre - existence of matter . So Ocellus argues against both the ...
... common notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nibil fit , which was the main ar- gument used by them to prove the eternity of the world , and by others , to prove the pre - existence of matter . So Ocellus argues against both the ...
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... common affections CHA P. of matter , fize , figure , motion , & c . he undertakes to give an account of the phenomena of the world . How far his principles do conduce to the giving men's minds fatisfaction as to the particular pheno ...
... common affections CHA P. of matter , fize , figure , motion , & c . he undertakes to give an account of the phenomena of the world . How far his principles do conduce to the giving men's minds fatisfaction as to the particular pheno ...
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... common phenomena of the world , have called in the help of a fpirit of nature , which may ferve inftead of a man - midwife to matter , to help her in her production of things : or , as though God BOOK God had a plurality of worlds to ...
... common phenomena of the world , have called in the help of a fpirit of nature , which may ferve inftead of a man - midwife to matter , to help her in her production of things : or , as though God BOOK God had a plurality of worlds to ...
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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