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 64
... excellent nature , which he called God , while yet he made him sit as it were with his elbows folded up in the heavens , and taking no cognizance of human actions . For he well knew , that if the belief of Divine Providence were once ...
... excellent nature , which he called God , while yet he made him sit as it were with his elbows folded up in the heavens , and taking no cognizance of human actions . For he well knew , that if the belief of Divine Providence were once ...
Page 65
... excellent a nature . And it is impossible to con- ceive why God , in the revelation of his will , should ever so much as mention a future punishment , or pro- mise an eternal reward , were not the consideration of these things the ...
... excellent a nature . And it is impossible to con- ceive why God , in the revelation of his will , should ever so much as mention a future punishment , or pro- mise an eternal reward , were not the consideration of these things the ...
Page 67
... excellent a nature as God's was , by his own acknowledgment , be presently tired with business , when the more excellent any nature is , the more active and vigorous it is , the more able to com- prehend and dispatch matters of moment ...
... excellent a nature as God's was , by his own acknowledgment , be presently tired with business , when the more excellent any nature is , the more active and vigorous it is , the more able to com- prehend and dispatch matters of moment ...
Page 79
... excellent beings which perpetually remain above , with which it partakes in the sublimity of its nature and understanding , and those inferior terrestrial beings , with which it communicates through the vital union which it hath with ...
... excellent beings which perpetually remain above , with which it partakes in the sublimity of its nature and understanding , and those inferior terrestrial beings , with which it communicates through the vital union which it hath with ...
Page 101
... is an easy matter to con- ceive what an excellent improvement might be made of the ancient Platonic philosophy by the advantage of cles . Hist . Script . de Vit . et III . BOOK the Scriptures , by one who was H 3 ORIGINES SACRÆ . 101.
... is an easy matter to con- ceive what an excellent improvement might be made of the ancient Platonic philosophy by the advantage of cles . Hist . Script . de Vit . et III . BOOK the Scriptures , by one who was H 3 ORIGINES SACRÆ . 101.
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