Origines Sacræ: 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. ...Clarendon Press, 1817 |
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... come to erect our superstructure upon them , by as- serting the undoubted truth and certainty of that account of the world ... comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimon . Maimonides well observes , the whole religion of Moses is More Ne ...
... come to erect our superstructure upon them , by as- serting the undoubted truth and certainty of that account of the world ... comes from the sun ; for if so , as Maimon . Maimonides well observes , the whole religion of Moses is More Ne ...
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... come to pass that the oldest philosophers should so readily and unani- mously embrace that opinion which asserted the produc- tion of the world ? Was it not a strong presumption of the novity of the universe , that all nations to whom ...
... come to pass that the oldest philosophers should so readily and unani- mously embrace that opinion which asserted the produc- tion of the world ? Was it not a strong presumption of the novity of the universe , that all nations to whom ...
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... come to consider upon what pretence of reason this tradition came to be contradicted , and the eternity of the * world asserted . For which we are to consider , that the difference of the former philosophers of the Ionic sect , after ...
... come to consider upon what pretence of reason this tradition came to be contradicted , and the eternity of the * world asserted . For which we are to consider , that the difference of the former philosophers of the Ionic sect , after ...
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... comes to discourse of the nature of God ; In quo nihil est difficilius quam a consuetudine oculorum aciem mentis ... come into the world ? The other tells him , that every man is bred in the womb of one of the same kind with ourselves ...
... comes to discourse of the nature of God ; In quo nihil est difficilius quam a consuetudine oculorum aciem mentis ... come into the world ? The other tells him , that every man is bred in the womb of one of the same kind with ourselves ...
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... comes it not to open its eyes , use the feet , mouth , and hands , as we do ? And so concludes it impossible that man should ever be born after this manner . Much after this way , saith that excellent author , do Aristotle and others ...
... comes it not to open its eyes , use the feet , mouth , and hands , as we do ? And so concludes it impossible that man should ever be born after this manner . Much after this way , saith that excellent author , do Aristotle and others ...
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Page 90 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Page 173 - How shall I give thee up, Ephraim ? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim ? Mine heart is turned within me, My repentings are kindled together.
Page 104 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 104 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 379 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts , of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 100 - And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 106 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was BO.
Page 378 - And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people ; And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee ; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
Page 270 - And this fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion, and in them that worship or fear that power otherwise than they do, superstition.
Page 269 - This perpetual fear, always accompanying mankind in the ignorance of causes, as it were in the dark, must needs have for object something. And therefore, when there is nothing to be seen, there is nothing to accuse, either of their good or evil fortune, but some ' power ' or agent