 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...my Defign is to apply it to that Subject in general, both natural and revealed : taking for proved, that there is an intelligent Author of Nature, and natural Governor of the World. For as there is no Prefumption againft This prior to the Proof of it : fo it has been often proved... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1765 - 488 pages
...Defign, without a Moral Governor of it. That there is. an intelligent Author of Nature, and natura^ Governor of the World, is a Principle gone, upon in...proved. And the very Notion of an intelligent Author pf Nature, proved by particular final Caufes, implies a Will and a Character ". Now, as our whole Nature,... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1781 - 720 pages
...Bijlwp Butler's Analogy of Religion. ALlowing that the notion of Neceflity does not deftroy the proof, that there is an intelligent Author of Nature, and natural Governor of the world; the prefent queflion is this : whether the Opinion of Neceflity, fuppofed confiftent with poflibility,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...as upon that of freedom. It appearing thus, that the notion of necessity does not destroy the proof, that there is an intelligent Author of Nature, and natural Governor of the world ; the present question, which the analogy before mentioned * suggests, and which, I think, it will... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...as upon that of freedom. It appearing thus, that the notion of necessity does not destroy the proof, that there is an intelligent Author of nature and natural Governor of the world, the present question, which the analogy before mentioned* suggests, and which, I think, it will answer,... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...came to be, and the course of it to be carried on, as it is; nor any of its general end and design, without a moral Governor of it. That there is an intelligent...the world, is a principle gone upon in the foregoing treatise, as proved, and generally known and confessed to be proved. Atid the very notion of an intelligent... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...act from choice, upon the scheme of necessity, supposed possible, as upon that of freedom. the proof that there is an intelligent author of nature and natural governor of the world, the present question, which the analogy before mentioned* suggests, and which, I think, it will answer,... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1834 - 414 pages
...as upon that of freedom. Tt appearing thus, that the notion of necessity does not destroy the proof, that there is an intelligent Author of nature and natural governor of the world ; the present question, which the analogy before mentioned1 suggests, and which, I think, it will answer,... | |
 | Apologetics - 1834 - 588 pages
...as upon that of freedom. It appearing thus, that the notion of necessity does not destroy the proof, that there is an intelligent Author of nature and natural Governor of the world, the present question, which the analogy before mentioned, (page 30o) suggests, and which, I think,... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...came to be, and the course of it to be carried on, as it is : nor any, of its general end and design, without a moral Governor of it. That there is an intelligent Author of Nature, and natural Governor of * P. 149, &c. f See Part II. Oh. ii. the world, is a principle gone upon in the foregoing treatise... | |
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That there is an intelligent Author of Nature and natural Governor of the world is a principle gone upon in the foregoing treatise as proved, and generally known and confessed to be proved. 
