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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... worship by facrifices ; the one by way of impetration , for beftowing of good ; the other by way of deprecation , for averting of evil . Such , Plutarch there tells us , were the Oromafdės and Arimanius of Zoroaftres , which were ...
... worship by facrifices ; the one by way of impetration , for beftowing of good ; the other by way of deprecation , for averting of evil . Such , Plutarch there tells us , were the Oromafdės and Arimanius of Zoroaftres , which were ...
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... worship of Apollo at ftarch . p . 19. Delphi was under the form of a ferpent ; whither Nonnus tells us that Cadmus the Phoenician went upon his first coming into Bæotia ; and from hence he derives the name Pytho , from the Hebrew In ...
... worship of Apollo at ftarch . p . 19. Delphi was under the form of a ferpent ; whither Nonnus tells us that Cadmus the Phoenician went upon his first coming into Bæotia ; and from hence he derives the name Pytho , from the Hebrew In ...
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... worship of Vulcan , hath been very pro- bably conceived , both from the very great affinity of the names , and that Tubal - Cain is exprefsly men- tioned to be an inftructer of every artificer in brass and Gen. iv . 22 . iron ; and as ...
... worship of Vulcan , hath been very pro- bably conceived , both from the very great affinity of the names , and that Tubal - Cain is exprefsly men- tioned to be an inftructer of every artificer in brass and Gen. iv . 22 . iron ; and as ...
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... worship from thofe ufed in the Tabernacle among the Jews . Several others might be infifted on ; as the parallel between Og and Typho , and between the old Silenus and Balaam ; both noted for their fkill in divination ; both taken by ...
... worship from thofe ufed in the Tabernacle among the Jews . Several others might be infifted on ; as the parallel between Og and Typho , and between the old Silenus and Balaam ; both noted for their fkill in divination ; both taken by ...
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... man's reafon which confiders them can doubt of the excellency of them . All natural worship is founded on the dictates of nature , all inftituted wor- VI . ship on God's revealed will ; and it fhip 218 ORIGINES SA CR Æ .
... man's reafon which confiders them can doubt of the excellency of them . All natural worship is founded on the dictates of nature , all inftituted wor- VI . ship on God's revealed will ; and it fhip 218 ORIGINES SA CR Æ .
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