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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... 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 necessary , and therefore to ...
... 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 necessary , and therefore to ...
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... viz . the producing of something out of nothing , or which had nothing out of which it was produced . Now what repugnancy is there to any free X. BOOK principle of reason , that a power infinite should ORIGINES SACRE . 31.
... viz . the producing of something out of nothing , or which had nothing out of which it was produced . Now what repugnancy is there to any free X. BOOK principle of reason , that a power infinite should ORIGINES SACRE . 31.
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... infinite should raise III . an insect into being , without any passive principle out of which it was caused ? And if an infinite power can do that , it may as well produce the world out of no- thing , else the power would not be ...
... infinite should raise III . an insect into being , without any passive principle out of which it was caused ? And if an infinite power can do that , it may as well produce the world out of no- thing , else the power would not be ...
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... infinite empty space , in which were an innumerable company of solid particles , or atoms of different sizes and shapes , which by their weight were in continual motion ; and that by the various 1. x . p . 290 . Lucret . de Nat . v ...
... infinite empty space , in which were an innumerable company of solid particles , or atoms of different sizes and shapes , which by their weight were in continual motion ; and that by the various 1. x . p . 290 . Lucret . de Nat . v ...
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... infinite space ; in which , after many encounters and facings about , they fell into their several troops , and made up that ordered battalia which now the world is the scheme of . It was not impru- dently done of Epicurus to make the ...
... infinite space ; in which , after many encounters and facings about , they fell into their several troops , and made up that ordered battalia which now the world is the scheme of . It was not impru- dently done of Epicurus to make the ...
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