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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... nature , as it would seem to flatter his goodness . For God cannot be himself without his goodness ; and if his goodness cannot be without some creature to shew or display it upon , God cannot be perfect nor happy without his creatures ...
... nature , as it would seem to flatter his goodness . For God cannot be himself without his goodness ; and if his goodness cannot be without some creature to shew or display it upon , God cannot be perfect nor happy without his creatures ...
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... nature , but belongs to the free determinations of his will . We cannot then , neither ought we , to determine any thing concerning the particular ways of God's bounty towards the whole universe , or any part of it , any further than ...
... nature , but belongs to the free determinations of his will . We cannot then , neither ought we , to determine any thing concerning the particular ways of God's bounty towards the whole universe , or any part of it , any further than ...
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... nature of matter because of its . coeternity with God ; neither could it be God merely advers . on that account , unless it had other things that were agreeable to the nature of God as well as that . But I have already shewed that ...
... nature of matter because of its . coeternity with God ; neither could it be God merely advers . on that account , unless it had other things that were agreeable to the nature of God as well as that . But I have already shewed that ...
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... nature to move , and give no other account of it , is so precarious , that it will never give the least satisfaction ... nature , without assigning any other reason for them , but that it is their nature , let Phys . sect . us never ...
... nature to move , and give no other account of it , is so precarious , that it will never give the least satisfaction ... nature , without assigning any other reason for them , but that it is their nature , let Phys . sect . us never ...
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... nature , which are attributed to particles of the same nature , only with the alteration of size , shape , and motion . That some things in the world should have no other reason given of them , may not only be tolerable but rational ...
... nature , which are attributed to particles of the same nature , only with the alteration of size , shape , and motion . That some things in the world should have no other reason given of them , may not only be tolerable but rational ...
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