A Defence of Reveal'd Religion Against the Exceptions of a Late Writer, in His Book, Intituled, Christianity as Old as the Creation, &c |
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... kind of Oppofition , yet we have this Comfort however , that fome Advantages have arifen to us from this very Op- pofition . The Grounds of our Holy Faith have been hereby more diftinctly confider'd ; And , I hope , we are the more firm ...
... kind of Oppofition , yet we have this Comfort however , that fome Advantages have arifen to us from this very Op- pofition . The Grounds of our Holy Faith have been hereby more diftinctly confider'd ; And , I hope , we are the more firm ...
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... Kind is really difcoverable by us , yet ftill these Matters will conftitute the Law or Religion of Nature , i . e . will be to us The Law of Nature , Not merely as founded in the Nature of Things , but as we have Abilities to discover ...
... Kind is really difcoverable by us , yet ftill these Matters will conftitute the Law or Religion of Nature , i . e . will be to us The Law of Nature , Not merely as founded in the Nature of Things , but as we have Abilities to discover ...
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... Kind is difcoverable by us : And the Caufe why it is not in Fact difcovered , is only This ; Men will not make Ufe of their Reafon for those Purposes for which it might and ought to ferve . But to Affert is one Thing , and to Prove is ...
... Kind is difcoverable by us : And the Caufe why it is not in Fact difcovered , is only This ; Men will not make Ufe of their Reafon for those Purposes for which it might and ought to ferve . But to Affert is one Thing , and to Prove is ...
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... Kind , is not the Law of Nature . The Argument therefore , which our Author here produces , amounts to nothing : It leaves the Point juft as it found it : And we must try , from other Confiderations , whe- ther Men have really ...
... Kind , is not the Law of Nature . The Argument therefore , which our Author here produces , amounts to nothing : It leaves the Point juft as it found it : And we must try , from other Confiderations , whe- ther Men have really ...
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... Kind may be difcover'd : And it may be fhewn likewife , That this first Being must be poffefs'd of every real Perfection , in all the Degrees of it which are poffible . Yet , how- ever certain it be in the general , that every real Per ...
... Kind may be difcover'd : And it may be fhewn likewife , That this first Being must be poffefs'd of every real Perfection , in all the Degrees of it which are poffible . Yet , how- ever certain it be in the general , that every real Per ...
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