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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... shew μὴ κατὰ τὴν ἀποδεικτικὴν ἐπισήμην , καθ ̓ ἣν ἐπαίγέλλονται Ἕλληνες περὶ Θεοῦ τε καὶ κλίσεως τες λόγες ποιεῖν , τοῦτο πεποιηκότας , ἀλλ ̓ εἰκασμῷ τὸ δοκοῦν διορισαμένες , that the Greek philosophers , in their discourses concerning ...
... shew μὴ κατὰ τὴν ἀποδεικτικὴν ἐπισήμην , καθ ̓ ἣν ἐπαίγέλλονται Ἕλληνες περὶ Θεοῦ τε καὶ κλίσεως τες λόγες ποιεῖν , τοῦτο πεποιηκότας , ἀλλ ̓ εἰκασμῷ τὸ δοκοῦν διορισαμένες , that the Greek philosophers , in their discourses concerning ...
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... shew or display it upon , God cannot be perfect nor happy without his creatures , because these are necessary issues of his goodness ; and conse- quently we make the being of the creatures necessary to his being God , which is the ...
... shew or display it upon , God cannot be perfect nor happy without his creatures , because these are necessary issues of his goodness ; and conse- quently we make the being of the creatures necessary to his being God , which is the ...
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... shew how insufficient an account the Epicureans are able to give of them from a fortuitous concourse of atoms , is a task too large to be here undertaken . There are only three things which I shall rather suggest , than insist upon , to ...
... shew how insufficient an account the Epicureans are able to give of them from a fortuitous concourse of atoms , is a task too large to be here undertaken . There are only three things which I shall rather suggest , than insist upon , to ...
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... shew that the grounds of our reli- 1. p.q.63 gion are not repugnant to natural reason , I shall rather um in Sen- make use of the testimony of such who professed to be tent . 1. ii . followers of nothing else but reason and philosophy ...
... shew that the grounds of our reli- 1. p.q.63 gion are not repugnant to natural reason , I shall rather um in Sen- make use of the testimony of such who professed to be tent . 1. ii . followers of nothing else but reason and philosophy ...
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... shew that those particular alter- ations , which are in bodies , do conduce rather to the per- fection and beauty of the universe , than are any real evils in it . But now , saith he , for the origin of those things which are properly ...
... shew that those particular alter- ations , which are in bodies , do conduce rather to the per- fection and beauty of the universe , than are any real evils in it . But now , saith he , for the origin of those things which are properly ...
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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