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 70
... whence it comes to pass that good men fare so hard in the world , when the bad triumph and flourish . If these two can be cleared with any satisfaction to reason , it will be the highest vindication of Divine Providence , and a great ...
... whence it comes to pass that good men fare so hard in the world , when the bad triumph and flourish . If these two can be cleared with any satisfaction to reason , it will be the highest vindication of Divine Providence , and a great ...
Page 77
... whence evil came into the world ; which , because it tends so much to the illustrating our present subject , I shall give an account of . God , saith he , who is the fountain and principle of all good , not only produced things which ...
... whence evil came into the world ; which , because it tends so much to the illustrating our present subject , I shall give an account of . God , saith he , who is the fountain and principle of all good , not only produced things which ...
Page 87
... be extracted of real satisfaction out of these things . Whence then should it come that men's souls should so delight to feed on these husks , and to embrace these BOOK clouds and shadows , instead of that real good G 4 ORIGINES SACRE . 87.
... be extracted of real satisfaction out of these things . Whence then should it come that men's souls should so delight to feed on these husks , and to embrace these BOOK clouds and shadows , instead of that real good G 4 ORIGINES SACRE . 87.
Page 97
... whence this perversity of matter should arise ; when , according to the Stoics , there are but two prin- ciples of things , God and matter : whereof the one is perfectly good , the other neither good nor evil . But this perversity ...
... whence this perversity of matter should arise ; when , according to the Stoics , there are but two prin- ciples of things , God and matter : whereof the one is perfectly good , the other neither good nor evil . But this perversity ...
Page 102
... whence it was that those excellent discourses in the latter Platonists had their true ori- ginal , hath given occasion to several mistakes among learned men as first , the overvaluing of the Platonic philosophy ; as though in many of ...
... whence it was that those excellent discourses in the latter Platonists had their true ori- ginal , hath given occasion to several mistakes among learned men as first , the overvaluing of the Platonic philosophy ; as though in many of ...
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