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, 2. köideUniversity Press, 1836 - 542 pages |
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... ture , merely by the mechanical laws of the motion of matter . I begin with those who assert the eternity of the world as it is , among whom Aristotle hath borne the greatest name , who seems to have arrogated this opinion to himself ...
... ture , merely by the mechanical laws of the motion of matter . I begin with those who assert the eternity of the world as it is , among whom Aristotle hath borne the greatest name , who seems to have arrogated this opinion to himself ...
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... ture . For we find by these naturalists , who thus as- serted this principle , that when they go about to prove it , it is only from the course of generations in the world , or from the works of art , both which suppose matter ...
... ture . For we find by these naturalists , who thus as- serted this principle , that when they go about to prove it , it is only from the course of generations in the world , or from the works of art , both which suppose matter ...
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... ture of God ; In quo nihil est difficilius quam a con- suetudine oculorum aciem mentis abducere , nothing is more difficult than to abstract our minds from the ob- servations of this visible world , when we seek to ap- prehend the ...
... ture of God ; In quo nihil est difficilius quam a con- suetudine oculorum aciem mentis abducere , nothing is more difficult than to abstract our minds from the ob- servations of this visible world , when we seek to ap- prehend the ...
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... ture of his ; but the particular determinations of the acts of God's beneficence belong to the will of God , as he is a most free and independent agent ; so that good- ness , as it imports the necessary rectitude of the Divine nature ...
... ture of his ; but the particular determinations of the acts of God's beneficence belong to the will of God , as he is a most free and independent agent ; so that good- ness , as it imports the necessary rectitude of the Divine nature ...
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... ture of bodies ; and where there is union and solidity , there is rest , which is at least accompanied with it , if it be not one of the great causes of it : and without which the atomists , of all other philosophers , will be V. Descar ...
... ture of bodies ; and where there is union and solidity , there is rest , which is at least accompanied with it , if it be not one of the great causes of it : and without which the atomists , of all other philosophers , will be V. Descar ...
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