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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... looked on as a 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 ...
... looked on as a 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 ...
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... looked upon conftitutionem fylva to be opus providentia ; which I fuppofe relates not only to the bringing of matter into form , but to the production of matter itfelf . But after this he takes a great deal of pains to fearch out the ...
... looked upon conftitutionem fylva to be opus providentia ; which I fuppofe relates not only to the bringing of matter into form , but to the production of matter itfelf . But after this he takes a great deal of pains to fearch out the ...
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... looked on the undetermined and confused matter to have been coeval with God him- felf , and not produced by him . And if Numenius be as much to be credited in this , as when he calls Plato Mofes Atticus , then the creation of universal ...
... looked on the undetermined and confused matter to have been coeval with God him- felf , and not produced by him . And if Numenius be as much to be credited in this , as when he calls Plato Mofes Atticus , then the creation of universal ...
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... looked after . Can we then think this dull , unactive matter , merely by the force of its first mo- tion , should be able still to produce the effects which are seen in the world , and to keep it from tumbling , at leaft by degrees ...
... looked after . Can we then think this dull , unactive matter , merely by the force of its first mo- tion , should be able still to produce the effects which are seen in the world , and to keep it from tumbling , at leaft by degrees ...
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... looked abroad in the world , they could not but ob- ferve fome strange irregularities in the converfe among men . What debaucheries , contentions , ra- pines , fightings , and destroying each other , and that with the greateft cruelty ...
... looked abroad in the world , they could not but ob- ferve fome strange irregularities in the converfe among men . What debaucheries , contentions , ra- pines , fightings , and destroying each other , and that with the greateft cruelty ...
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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