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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... poffible for one of us , though never fo little , to live and move in the womb for fo many months , when it is fo clofe , and fhut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , faith he , should fwal- low a little bird , it would ...
... poffible for one of us , though never fo little , to live and move in the womb for fo many months , when it is fo clofe , and fhut up , and in the middle of the body ? If one of us , faith he , should fwal- low a little bird , it would ...
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... poffible for them ever to meet for the contexture of bodies ? Now for this purpose he invented a motion of declination ; for finding the motion ad lineam , or ad perpendiculum as fome call it , could not poffibly pro- duce thofe ...
... poffible for them ever to meet for the contexture of bodies ? Now for this purpose he invented a motion of declination ; for finding the motion ad lineam , or ad perpendiculum as fome call it , could not poffibly pro- duce thofe ...
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... poffible , but as probably existent : I affume only then ( that which is infifted on as probable ) , viz . that that space which lies between our atmosphere and the ftars is empty of any other thing but only the rays of the ftars which ...
... poffible , but as probably existent : I affume only then ( that which is infifted on as probable ) , viz . that that space which lies between our atmosphere and the ftars is empty of any other thing but only the rays of the ftars which ...
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... poffible there fhould be fun , or ftars , or earth , or man f the Soul , in the world ; for the matter being uniform , it must b . i . c . 11 . have equal motion in all its particles , if motion doth feet . 3. & c . belong to it . For ...
... poffible there fhould be fun , or ftars , or earth , or man f the Soul , in the world ; for the matter being uniform , it must b . i . c . 11 . have equal motion in all its particles , if motion doth feet . 3. & c . belong to it . For ...
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... poffible ; and nothing is implied in the notion of an exiftent creature beyond mere poffibility of existence : what is it then which gives actual exiftence to it ? That cannot be itself , for it would be neceffarily ex- iftent . III ...
... poffible ; and nothing is implied in the notion of an exiftent creature beyond mere poffibility of existence : what is it then which gives actual exiftence to it ? That cannot be itself , for it would be neceffarily ex- iftent . III ...
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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