Remarks on a Book Entitled Deism Fairly Stated, and Fully Vindicated, &c., in a Letter to the Author ...: Wherein it is Proved, Upon the Author's Own Principles, that His Undertaking is Irrational, Immoral, and UnjustW. Willock, 1746 - 59 pages |
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... expect to fail of convincing the Deifts of the Truth of their Caufe , but also render it a doubtful Point whe- ther they are rationally convinced of the Truth of it themselves . For if we begin with the Roman Catholics , who have vaftly ...
... expect to fail of convincing the Deifts of the Truth of their Caufe , but also render it a doubtful Point whe- ther they are rationally convinced of the Truth of it themselves . For if we begin with the Roman Catholics , who have vaftly ...
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... expect Proof in any other way . Mere Morality and the bare Exer- cife of our natural Powers in Matters of Religion , they esteem altogether ineffectual with regard to Salvation ; and things beyond Morality , and out of the Verge of ...
... expect Proof in any other way . Mere Morality and the bare Exer- cife of our natural Powers in Matters of Religion , they esteem altogether ineffectual with regard to Salvation ; and things beyond Morality , and out of the Verge of ...
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... expect that human Conduct at beft will be pro- portionably fo ? And if God acts confonant to the moft perfect Reafon , then will he not do it in thefe Inftances , as well as in others , viz . over- look thofe leffer Mifcarriages in his ...
... expect that human Conduct at beft will be pro- portionably fo ? And if God acts confonant to the moft perfect Reafon , then will he not do it in thefe Inftances , as well as in others , viz . over- look thofe leffer Mifcarriages in his ...
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... expect from fome other , tho ' of a fuppofed fupernatural , yet of an obviously indif tinct and convulfive Glare ; for would not fuch an incautious Procedure be a Cafe analogous to that of the Traveller , who was betrayed into a dan ...
... expect from fome other , tho ' of a fuppofed fupernatural , yet of an obviously indif tinct and convulfive Glare ; for would not fuch an incautious Procedure be a Cafe analogous to that of the Traveller , who was betrayed into a dan ...
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... expect the Performance of Duties , proper to intelligent Beings , at fuch a one's Hands . Thirdly , if Reafon be the peculiar Glory of every intelligent Being , then it must be the pe- culiar Glory of the first great Principle of Life ...
... expect the Performance of Duties , proper to intelligent Beings , at fuch a one's Hands . Thirdly , if Reafon be the peculiar Glory of every intelligent Being , then it must be the pe- culiar Glory of the first great Principle of Life ...
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abfolutely abfurd affert Affiftance Affurance againſt anſwer appear Argument arifing Author becauſe believe Benfon Cafe Caufe Chriftian Conclufion confequently Confideration confidered Conftitution Creatures Deifm Deifts DEISM Deity difcern diftinct diftinguiſhed diſcover divine Revelation effential endeavour eſtabliſhed Evidence exercifed Exiſtence Faculties fafely faid Faith fame feems fhall fhew fhould fome Foundation in Reafon fufficient fupernatural fuppofe furely Goſpel Happineſs himſelf human Reafon Inftance Inftitutions itſelf Jefus Chrift judge the World juft Juftice Koran leaſt ligion Matters Meaſure moft moral moſt muft muſt natural Reafon natural Religion neceffary neral Number obferve Occafion perceived perfect Perfons pleafed pleaſed poffibly pofitive Precepts prefent Principles Proof proper Propofition propoſed prove Purpoſes Queſtion racter rational Divines Reafon and Nature Reaſon Refpect regard ſay Scrip Scriptures ſeem Senfe Socrates thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe tion true Truth tural tures Underſtanding univerfal Uſe Wiſdom yourſelf
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Page 29 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Page 6 - Gofpel was a republication of the law of nature, and its precepts declarative of that original religion, which was as old as the creation.
Page 6 - Apoftles, in publishing the Gofpel to Mankind : And the firft is this : That the Religion of the Gofpel is the true original Religion of Reafon and Nature.
Page 36 - ... there is no kind of faculty or power in man, or any other creature, which can rightly perform the functions allotted to it, without perpetual aid and concurrence of that Supreme Cause of all things.
Page 1 - DEISM FAIRLY STATED, AND FULLY VINDICATED,^. In a LETTER to a FRIEND.
Page 80 - by our reason we are to make trial of what is offered to us as a revelation from God.
Page 46 - Society, abandoned to its own fortune, without fupport or protection, would, in no long time, be fwallowed up and loft. Of this opinion was a very able writer, whofe knowledge of human nature will not be difputed : " Were it not, fays he, for that fenfe of " virtue, which is principally preferved, fo far as it is preferved, " BY NATIONAL FORMS AND HABITS OF RELIGION, men would «* foon lofe it all, run wild, prey upon one another, and do what «* elfe the worft of favages do J.
Page 23 - ... therefore I, conceiving the contrary to be more evident, might well content myself to deny it without refutation : yet I cannot but desire you to tell me, if Scripture cannot be the judge of any controversy, how shall that touching the church and the notes of it be determined ? And if it be the sole judge of this one, why may it not of others ? Why not of all ? >those only excepted, wherein the Scripture itself is the subject of the question, which cannot be determined but by natural reason,...
Page 13 - deifm is np other than the religion effential " to man, the true original religion of...