Origines Sacrae: Or, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2The University Press, 1836 - Apologetics |
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... attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary emanation of it from the first cause , as light comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimonides well observes , c . 25 . II . the whole religion of 2 ORIGINES SACRE . N.
... attributes eternity to the universe , and a necessary emanation of it from the first cause , as light comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimonides well observes , c . 25 . II . the whole religion of 2 ORIGINES SACRE . N.
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... cause of the world . The prime efficient was God ; the material principle , water . It is a matter of some inquiry , whether the first prin- ciples of philosophy among the Greeks were not rather some traditional things conveyed to them ...
... cause of the world . The prime efficient was God ; the material principle , water . It is a matter of some inquiry , whether the first prin- ciples of philosophy among the Greeks were not rather some traditional things conveyed to them ...
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... cause of the world , who by his omnipotent power produced it out of nothing , and continues it in its being ; which is well expressed by the author of the Refutation of Aristotle , in Justin Martyr's works . We assert , saith he , one ...
... cause of the world , who by his omnipotent power produced it out of nothing , and continues it in its being ; which is well expressed by the author of the Refutation of Aristotle , in Justin Martyr's works . We assert , saith he , one ...
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... cause either of its beginning , or of its being , or continuance , but only his will . Who fully answers , in a philosophical manner , the particular allegations out of Aristotle , concerning the eternity of the world ; his design being ...
... cause either of its beginning , or of its being , or continuance , but only his will . Who fully answers , in a philosophical manner , the particular allegations out of Aristotle , concerning the eternity of the world ; his design being ...
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... cause of the world , yet they withal asserted , that the world was coequal with God himself ; and so , though there ... cause , which we assert , but no necessity at all of his continual acting , since he may cause motion when he pleases ...
... cause of the world , yet they withal asserted , that the world was coequal with God himself ; and so , though there ... cause , which we assert , but no necessity at all of his continual acting , since he may cause motion when he pleases ...
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