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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... whole Nature ; that be- lieves likewife there is Truth in oppofition to Falfhood , that it has a neceffary Exiftence in Na- ture , and who in his Measure regards it too , in the Whole of his Conduct , and thereby afpires to affimilate ...
... whole Nature ; that be- lieves likewife there is Truth in oppofition to Falfhood , that it has a neceffary Exiftence in Na- ture , and who in his Measure regards it too , in the Whole of his Conduct , and thereby afpires to affimilate ...
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... Whole its Parts ; and as neceffarily exclude every thing of a different nature from them , as it is natu- rally different . But then they argue , that as the Religion of Nature , thus abfolutely confidered and in its full Extent , is ...
... Whole its Parts ; and as neceffarily exclude every thing of a different nature from them , as it is natu- rally different . But then they argue , that as the Religion of Nature , thus abfolutely confidered and in its full Extent , is ...
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... whole Caufe . And as many have taken in hand to answer the Tract I referred to , thereby to remove from Chrif- tianity thofe Difficulties which , according to that Performance , it may feem to be incumbered with ; fo I have fingled out ...
... whole Caufe . And as many have taken in hand to answer the Tract I referred to , thereby to remove from Chrif- tianity thofe Difficulties which , according to that Performance , it may feem to be incumbered with ; fo I have fingled out ...
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... whole Species are unpardonably guilty before God , or elfe Repentance and Reformation are the Means of Reconciliation with him , and of reftoring us to his Favour . IX . That Repentance and Reformation are the natural Means of ...
... whole Species are unpardonably guilty before God , or elfe Repentance and Reformation are the Means of Reconciliation with him , and of reftoring us to his Favour . IX . That Repentance and Reformation are the natural Means of ...
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... whole rational Community ; fo it is manifeftly natural to con- clude , that every Individual ought to aspire to- wards the Perfection of his Nature , by cultivating his own Understanding to the utmost , and bound- ing it by nothing but ...
... whole rational Community ; fo it is manifeftly natural to con- clude , that every Individual ought to aspire to- wards the Perfection of his Nature , by cultivating his own Understanding to the utmost , and bound- ing it by nothing but ...
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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...