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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... hypothesis they proceeded on was this , That the being of the world was no effect of 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 ...
... hypothesis they proceeded on was this , That the being of the world was no effect of 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 ...
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... hypothesis , VIII . which is repugnant to Moses , concerning the origin of the universe , which is that which asserts the eternity of the world as it is ; we come now to the second , which attributes the formation of the world , as it ...
... hypothesis , VIII . which is repugnant to Moses , concerning the origin of the universe , which is that which asserts the eternity of the world as it is ; we come now to the second , which attributes the formation of the world , as it ...
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... hypothesis , and whether there were foundation enough for this matter to subsist upon to all eternity . It might be sufficient prejudice against this opinion , that it was built on the same infirm conclusions which that of the eternity ...
... hypothesis , and whether there were foundation enough for this matter to subsist upon to all eternity . It might be sufficient prejudice against this opinion , that it was built on the same infirm conclusions which that of the eternity ...
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... hypothesis of God's being corporeal , and confined to the world as his proper place . And so much for this second hypothesis , concerning the origin of the universe , which supposeth the eternity of matter as coexisting with God . XI ...
... hypothesis of God's being corporeal , and confined to the world as his proper place . And so much for this second hypothesis , concerning the origin of the universe , which supposeth the eternity of matter as coexisting with God . XI ...
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... hypothesis its due place and subserviency to God and providence , but think these atoms have no force at all in them , unless they can extrude a Deity quite out of the world ; for it is most evident that it was not so much the truth ...
... hypothesis its due place and subserviency to God and providence , but think these atoms have no force at all in them , unless they can extrude a Deity quite out of the world ; for it is most evident that it was not so much the truth ...
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