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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... God's will , but of the necessity of nature . For although the philosophers we now speak of did assert a Deity , which in some sense might be called the cause of the world , yet they withal asserted , that the world was coequal with God ...
... God's will , but of the necessity of nature . For although the philosophers we now speak of did assert a Deity , which in some sense might be called the cause of the world , yet they withal asserted , that the world was coequal with God ...
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... God , which they conceive most necessary and agreeable to God's nature , and by which the world was produced , if at all ; so that by the same arguments whereby we prove that the world was made by God , they prove it to have been from ...
... God , which they conceive most necessary and agreeable to God's nature , and by which the world was produced , if at all ; so that by the same arguments whereby we prove that the world was made by God , they prove it to have been from ...
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... God be a free agent , and of infinite wisdom as well as good- ness , must we either assert the eternity of the world , or fear to deprive God of his essential goodness ? Whereas to make the communications of God's good- ness ad extra ...
... God be a free agent , and of infinite wisdom as well as good- ness , must we either assert the eternity of the world , or fear to deprive God of his essential goodness ? Whereas to make the communications of God's good- ness ad extra ...
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... God's bounty towards the whole universe , or any part of it , any further than God himself hath declared it to us . Now we see the world exists ; we have cause to adore that goodness of God , which not only gave a being to the universe ...
... God's bounty towards the whole universe , or any part of it , any further than God himself hath declared it to us . Now we see the world exists ; we have cause to adore that goodness of God , which not only gave a being to the universe ...
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... God , to be far more rational and probable than that of Epicurus , which assigned the origin of things to a mere ... God's power could not extend itself beyond the capacity of the matter which it wrought upon . Atque id est , saith he ...
... God , to be far more rational and probable than that of Epicurus , which assigned the origin of things to a mere ... God's power could not extend itself beyond the capacity of the matter which it wrought upon . Atque id est , saith he ...
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