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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... eternal , how 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 ...
... eternal , how 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 ...
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... eternal power , to the opinion of the vulgar ; which , faith he , was r φύσιν αὐτὰ γεννᾶν από τινῷ αἰτίας αὐτομάτης καὶ ἄνευ δια- νοίας φάσης , that all things were produced by a blind force of nature , without any reafon or counsel ...
... eternal power , to the opinion of the vulgar ; which , faith he , was r φύσιν αὐτὰ γεννᾶν από τινῷ αἰτίας αὐτομάτης καὶ ἄνευ δια- νοίας φάσης , that all things were produced by a blind force of nature , without any reafon or counsel ...
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... eternal Being , which was the efficient caufe of the world , who by his omnipotent power produced it out of nothing , and continues it in its being ; which is well expreffed by the author of the Refuta- tion of Aristotle , in Juftin ...
... eternal Being , which was the efficient caufe of the world , who by his omnipotent power produced it out of nothing , and continues it in its being ; which is well expreffed by the author of the Refuta- tion of Aristotle , in Juftin ...
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... eternal counfels of his will , which is a depth too great for us to approach or look into ; by what neceffity , then , if God be a free agent , and of infinite wisdom as well as goodnefs , muft we either affert the eternity of the world ...
... eternal counfels of his will , which is a depth too great for us to approach or look into ; by what neceffity , then , if God be a free agent , and of infinite wisdom as well as goodnefs , muft we either affert the eternity of the world ...
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... eternal , if not the universe ? But how reconcileable the eternity of the world is to the Pythagoric cabala of the crea- tion , I am yet to understand . But if this argument doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have ...
... eternal , if not the universe ? But how reconcileable the eternity of the world is to the Pythagoric cabala of the crea- tion , I am yet to understand . But if this argument doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have ...
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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