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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... doth Ari- stotle dispute for the eternity of the world , from the nature of his materia prima ; because if the first mat- ter were generated , it must be generated of other mat- ter , and so in infinitum ; and so he argues from the ...
... doth Ari- stotle dispute for the eternity of the world , from the nature of his materia prima ; because if the first mat- ter were generated , it must be generated of other mat- ter , and so in infinitum ; and so he argues from the ...
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... doth is suitable to this na- ture of his ; but the particular determinations of the acts of God's beneficence belong to the will of God , as he is a most free and independent agent ; so that good- ness , as it imports the necessary ...
... doth is suitable to this na- ture of his ; but the particular determinations of the acts of God's beneficence belong to the will of God , as he is a most free and independent agent ; so that good- ness , as it imports the necessary ...
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... doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have shewed it doth not , much less doth it preexist- ence of souls . de Vera We have thus far considered the first hypothesis , VIII . which is repugnant to Moses , concerning the ...
... doth not at all infer the eternity of the world , as we have shewed it doth not , much less doth it preexist- ence of souls . de Vera We have thus far considered the first hypothesis , VIII . which is repugnant to Moses , concerning the ...
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... doth assert therein a preexistence of rude matter before the formation of the world , yet I see no reason why he should be otherwise understood , than in the same sense that we believe a chaos to have gone before the bring- ing the ...
... doth assert therein a preexistence of rude matter before the formation of the world , yet I see no reason why he should be otherwise understood , than in the same sense that we believe a chaos to have gone before the bring- ing the ...
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... doth not imply a contradiction : but what contradiction is there in this , that God should give a being to that which had none before ? For that is all we under- stand by creation , viz . the producing of something out of nothing , or ...
... doth not imply a contradiction : but what contradiction is there in this , that God should give a being to that which had none before ? For that is all we under- stand by creation , viz . the producing of something out of nothing , or ...
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