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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... these following fuppofitions ; which are all falfe . 1. That it is unconceivable that things fhould ever have been in any other ftate than they are . 2. That there is no other way of production but by generation . 3. That God is no free ...
... these following fuppofitions ; which are all falfe . 1. That it is unconceivable that things fhould ever have been in any other ftate than they are . 2. That there is no other way of production but by generation . 3. That God is no free ...
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... things in the world , that many of the phe- nomena of the universe are far more intelligibly ex- plained by matter and motion than by fubftantial forms and real qualities , few free and unprejudiced minds do now fcruple . But because these ...
... things in the world , that many of the phe- nomena of the universe are far more intelligibly ex- plained by matter and motion than by fubftantial forms and real qualities , few free and unprejudiced minds do now fcruple . But because these ...
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... them to be accompanied with very little reason . For those two things which make any principles in philofophy to be rejected , this atomical hypothesis is unavoidably charged with ; and thofe are , If the principles be taken up without ...
... them to be accompanied with very little reason . For those two things which make any principles in philofophy to be rejected , this atomical hypothesis is unavoidably charged with ; and thofe are , If the principles be taken up without ...
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... things ? Nay , if we III . grant him that the compofition of bodies is ... these four ways . 1. By incurfion , as the species of a man is preferved by ... these ways belong to a criterium of truth , yet none of them reach our cafe ; for ...
... things ? Nay , if we III . grant him that the compofition of bodies is ... these four ways . 1. By incurfion , as the species of a man is preferved by ... these ways belong to a criterium of truth , yet none of them reach our cafe ; for ...
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... things by ( for the third , paffion , relates wholly to things moral , and not phy- fical ) ; and now let any one ... these particles did cafually produce these bodies ? Nay , doth it at all follow , that because bodies upon their ...
... things by ( for the third , paffion , relates wholly to things moral , and not phy- fical ) ; and now let any one ... these particles did cafually produce these bodies ? Nay , doth it at all follow , that because bodies upon their ...
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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