The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality, Volume 3T. Tegg, 1845 - Atheism |
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... entity or truth , as that , which is repugnant to conception , is a non- entity or falsehood . Nay , the very essence of truth here is this clear perceptibility , or intelligibility ; and therefore can there not be any clear or distinct ...
... entity or truth , as that , which is repugnant to conception , is a non- entity or falsehood . Nay , the very essence of truth here is this clear perceptibility , or intelligibility ; and therefore can there not be any clear or distinct ...
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... entity and a shadow . If existence be considered in this point of view , the sense of the precept we are speaking of will be this : " I can by thinking separate existence from yet nevertheless , whatsoever we can frame an idea of OF THE ...
... entity and a shadow . If existence be considered in this point of view , the sense of the precept we are speaking of will be this : " I can by thinking separate existence from yet nevertheless , whatsoever we can frame an idea of OF THE ...
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... we have an idea of God , or a perfect Being , implying no manner of contra- diction in it , therefore must it needs have some kind of entity or VOL . III . E other , either an actual or possible one ; but FROM HIS IDEA . 49.
... we have an idea of God , or a perfect Being , implying no manner of contra- diction in it , therefore must it needs have some kind of entity or VOL . III . E other , either an actual or possible one ; but FROM HIS IDEA . 49.
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... the case in first principles , and suppose that no entity is of itself one . here the principles from which all things proceed are perfect . " But all the vain pretences of Lucretius , and other Atheists BETWEEN THEISTS AND ATHEISTS . 57.
... the case in first principles , and suppose that no entity is of itself one . here the principles from which all things proceed are perfect . " But all the vain pretences of Lucretius , and other Atheists BETWEEN THEISTS AND ATHEISTS . 57.
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... entity for this very reason , because they are con- ceivable for since nonentity is not conceivable , whatsoever is conceivable , and an object of the mind , is therefore something . And as for axiomatical truths , in which something is ...
... entity for this very reason , because they are con- ceivable for since nonentity is not conceivable , whatsoever is conceivable , and an object of the mind , is therefore something . And as for axiomatical truths , in which something is ...
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Page 361 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage : But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 5 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying. Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them, thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Page 310 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 310 - For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
Page 447 - For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Page 507 - The finall Cause, End, or Designe of men, (who naturally love Liberty, and Dominion over others,) in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, (in which wee see them live in Common-wealths,) is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby...
Page 640 - For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves...
Page 514 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Page 269 - Ergo exercentur poenis veterumque malorum supplicia expendunt. Aliae panduntur inanes 740 suspensae ad ventos, aliis sub gurgite vasto infectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni...
Page 502 - Before there was any government, just and unjust had no being, their nature only being relative to some command : and every action in its own nature is indifferent ; that it becomes just or unjust, proceeds from the right of the magistrate. Legitimate kings therefore make the things they command just, by commanding them, and those which they forbid, unjust, by forbidding them.