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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... CHAP . miracles are but impostures , all the hopes which are Maimon . grounded on the promises of God are vain and fruit- More Ne- less . For if the world did of necessity exist , then God is no free agent ; and if so , then all ...
... CHAP . miracles are but impostures , all the hopes which are Maimon . grounded on the promises of God are vain and fruit- More Ne- less . For if the world did of necessity exist , then God is no free agent ; and if so , then all ...
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... CHAP . that universal tradition which was continued in the . world concerning the first principles of things ; for I do not see any reason to aver , with so much confidence as some do , that those philosophers who spake any thing ...
... CHAP . that universal tradition which was continued in the . world concerning the first principles of things ; for I do not see any reason to aver , with so much confidence as some do , that those philosophers who spake any thing ...
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... CHAP . thagoras , whether , if the eternity of the world were put into the argument instead of the preexistence of souls , this argument would not hold as strongly for that as it doth for preexistence ? and if I am bound to believe ...
... CHAP . thagoras , whether , if the eternity of the world were put into the argument instead of the preexistence of souls , this argument would not hold as strongly for that as it doth for preexistence ? and if I am bound to believe ...
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... CHAP . not lose the name or 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 ...
... CHAP . not lose the name or 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 ...
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... CHAP . which these insensible particles arise , and whither they return on the dissolution of bodies ; and all these va- rious corpuscles may be of the same uniform substance , only with the alteration of size , shape , and motion . But ...
... CHAP . which these insensible particles arise , and whither they return on the dissolution of bodies ; and all these va- rious corpuscles may be of the same uniform substance , only with the alteration of size , shape , and motion . But ...
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