Origines Sacrae 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, Volume 2University Press, 1836 - 542 pages |
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Page 46
... better catching hold of each other for the composition of bodies ; how come these hooks and angles to be annexed to this atom ? For an atom may be without them ; whence comes this union , if such a principle of motion be in each ...
... better catching hold of each other for the composition of bodies ; how come these hooks and angles to be annexed to this atom ? For an atom may be without them ; whence comes this union , if such a principle of motion be in each ...
Page 65
... better than those weak pretended advancers of religion , who while in such a way they pretend to advance it , do only blow it up . For if men ought not to have an eye and respect to their own future condi- tion , nor serve God on the ...
... better than those weak pretended advancers of religion , who while in such a way they pretend to advance it , do only blow it up . For if men ought not to have an eye and respect to their own future condi- tion , nor serve God on the ...
Page 92
... better account of the origin of evil the Scriptures give us , than was disco- vered by the heathen philosophers . For on both sides that opinion is repugnant to the notion of a Deity ; so that while they would make two such Gods , they ...
... better account of the origin of evil the Scriptures give us , than was disco- vered by the heathen philosophers . For on both sides that opinion is repugnant to the notion of a Deity ; so that while they would make two such Gods , they ...
Page 98
... better order by that God who produced the world out of that matter which the Stoics supposed to be eternal . And the truth is , the avoiding the attributing the cause of evil to God , seems to have been the great reason why they rather ...
... better order by that God who produced the world out of that matter which the Stoics supposed to be eternal . And the truth is , the avoiding the attributing the cause of evil to God , seems to have been the great reason why they rather ...
Page 103
... better entertain- ment among the Greeks , than they were ever like to do in their plain and native dress . Which Plato him- Plato in Epinom . self seems somewhere to intimate , when he saith , that p . 1012 . what the Greeks received ...
... better entertain- ment among the Greeks , than they were ever like to do in their plain and native dress . Which Plato him- Plato in Epinom . self seems somewhere to intimate , when he saith , that p . 1012 . what the Greeks received ...
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