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 121
... persons who had been useful or hurt- ful to the commonwealths , we may suppose there might be somewhat more of reason than interest in such ar- gumentations ; and yet even in those discourses we may still find , that the main original ...
... persons who had been useful or hurt- ful to the commonwealths , we may suppose there might be somewhat more of reason than interest in such ar- gumentations ; and yet even in those discourses we may still find , that the main original ...
Page 122
... persons who were par- ticularly engaged by some private interest in those passages , from whence they would infer that there was no Providence , to such who stood by unconcerned , and made use of the free dictates of their reason in ...
... persons who were par- ticularly engaged by some private interest in those passages , from whence they would infer that there was no Providence , to such who stood by unconcerned , and made use of the free dictates of their reason in ...
Page 124
... person against whom they are committed , no injuries can be so great in one man to another , as those affronts are which men put upon God by their continual provocations of him : and if God then be of so infinite patience to forbear ...
... person against whom they are committed , no injuries can be so great in one man to another , as those affronts are which men put upon God by their continual provocations of him : and if God then be of so infinite patience to forbear ...
Page 126
... persons who usurped authority among them , is clearly taken off : for Divine Providence might let those trees grow , from whence he intended . to take his rods to scourge others withal . God makes the same use of tyrants ( saith ...
... persons who usurped authority among them , is clearly taken off : for Divine Providence might let those trees grow , from whence he intended . to take his rods to scourge others withal . God makes the same use of tyrants ( saith ...
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... persons , and the means of it , hath been very remarkable in a multitude of instances ; which every one's reading may afford him . 4. Therefore another account why God may spare wicked men a while , is , that Divine Providence might ...
... persons , and the means of it , hath been very remarkable in a multitude of instances ; which every one's reading may afford him . 4. Therefore another account why God may spare wicked men a while , is , that Divine Providence might ...
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