Origines Sacræ: Or, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion. To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author. Together with a Letter to a Deist. ...Clarendon Press, 1817 - Apologetics |
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... hath great influence upon our belief of all that follows in the word of God . For although we should assert with Epicurus the being of a Deity , if yet with him we add that the world was made by a casual concourse of atoms , all that ...
... hath great influence upon our belief of all that follows in the word of God . For although we should assert with Epicurus the being of a Deity , if yet with him we add that the world was made by a casual concourse of atoms , all that ...
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... hath not been a little beholden , as Ludov . Nogarola hath in part mani- fested in his notes on Ocellus ; although Aristotle had not the ingenuity of Pliny , agnoscere per quos profecerit . From Aristotle this opinion , together with ...
... hath not been a little beholden , as Ludov . Nogarola hath in part mani- fested in his notes on Ocellus ; although Aristotle had not the ingenuity of Pliny , agnoscere per quos profecerit . From Aristotle this opinion , together with ...
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... hath been so taken for granted , that it hath been looked on as a com- mon notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nihil fit , which Vid . Laert . was the main argument used by them to prove the eternity in Vit . De- of the world , and ...
... hath been so taken for granted , that it hath been looked on as a com- mon notion of human nature , viz . ex nihilo nihil fit , which Vid . Laert . was the main argument used by them to prove the eternity in Vit . De- of the world , and ...
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... hath all its limbs perfect and sound , how comes it not to open its eyes , use the feet , mouth , and hands , as we do ? And so concludes it impossible that man should ever be born after this manner . Much after this way , saith that ...
... hath all its limbs perfect and sound , how comes it not to open its eyes , use the feet , mouth , and hands , as we do ? And so concludes it impossible that man should ever be born after this manner . Much after this way , saith that ...
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... hath ever observed such a mutation in the world , neither is there any appearance of it ; ἀλλ ̓ ἀεὶ και ̓ αὐτὸ καὶ ὡσαυτῶς διατελεῖ καὶ ἴσον ὅμοιον αὐτὸ ἑαυτοῦ : but the world is semper idem ; it varies not , nor alters any thing from ...
... hath ever observed such a mutation in the world , neither is there any appearance of it ; ἀλλ ̓ ἀεὶ και ̓ αὐτὸ καὶ ὡσαυτῶς διατελεῖ καὶ ἴσον ὅμοιον αὐτὸ ἑαυτοῦ : but the world is semper idem ; it varies not , nor alters any thing from ...
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Page 90 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Page 173 - How shall I give thee up, Ephraim ? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim ? Mine heart is turned within me, My repentings are kindled together.
Page 104 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 104 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 379 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts , of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 100 - And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 106 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was BO.
Page 378 - And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people ; And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee ; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
Page 270 - And this fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion, and in them that worship or fear that power otherwise than they do, superstition.
Page 269 - This perpetual fear, always accompanying mankind in the ignorance of causes, as it were in the dark, must needs have for object something. And therefore, when there is nothing to be seen, there is nothing to accuse, either of their good or evil fortune, but some ' power ' or agent