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 102
... learned men as first , the overvaluing of the Platonic philosophy ; as though in many of the discourses and notions of it , it seemed to some ( who were more in love with philosophy than the Scriptures ) to outgo what is discovered ...
... learned men as first , the overvaluing of the Platonic philosophy ; as though in many of the discourses and notions of it , it seemed to some ( who were more in love with philosophy than the Scriptures ) to outgo what is discovered ...
Page 113
... learned man , that the temporal original of that very ancient opinion among the hea- then , de invidia Dæmonis , had its rise from the his- tory of the fall of man ; which he hath made out so fully , that I shall the less need to prove ...
... learned man , that the temporal original of that very ancient opinion among the hea- then , de invidia Dæmonis , had its rise from the his- tory of the fall of man ; which he hath made out so fully , that I shall the less need to prove ...
Page 114
... learned and philosophical men , were haunted withal ; and doubts he can give no just account of it , unless he embraced that very ancient tradition ( which yet seemed absurd and incredible ) , viz . That there are certain wicked and ...
... learned and philosophical men , were haunted withal ; and doubts he can give no just account of it , unless he embraced that very ancient tradition ( which yet seemed absurd and incredible ) , viz . That there are certain wicked and ...
Page 140
... learned Selden cites the version of the Mauritanian Jews , and the Persic of Tawasius . Jure Natur . et Gent . 1. i . c . 5 . p . 65 . But whatever the credit or authority of these ver- sions be , this is most certain , that Adam had no ...
... learned Selden cites the version of the Mauritanian Jews , and the Persic of Tawasius . Jure Natur . et Gent . 1. i . c . 5 . p . 65 . But whatever the credit or authority of these ver- sions be , this is most certain , that Adam had no ...
Page 141
... learned adversaries , that it might seem needless so much as to have taken notice of so weakly grounded and infirmly proved an opinion , had it not thus far lain in my way , in order to the clearing the true ori- gin of nations ...
... learned adversaries , that it might seem needless so much as to have taken notice of so weakly grounded and infirmly proved an opinion , had it not thus far lain in my way , in order to the clearing the true ori- gin of nations ...
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