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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... human understanding alone altogether unfore- laid down this definition , the acute writer does not altogether deny that there are some things which exceed all the power of wicked demons , such as the reanimation of the dead , and ...
... human understanding alone altogether unfore- laid down this definition , the acute writer does not altogether deny that there are some things which exceed all the power of wicked demons , such as the reanimation of the dead , and ...
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... human events , had he not asserted the necessity of all human actions and volitions , but held liberty of will , as Epicurus afterwards did ( as if this were inconsistent with all manner of presage , and probable or con- jectural ...
... human events , had he not asserted the necessity of all human actions and volitions , but held liberty of will , as Epicurus afterwards did ( as if this were inconsistent with all manner of presage , and probable or con- jectural ...
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... human volitions , which are not always necessarily linked and concatenated with what goes before , but often loose and free ; and upon that contingency , that arises from the indifferency or equality of eligibility in objects . Lastly ...
... human volitions , which are not always necessarily linked and concatenated with what goes before , but often loose and free ; and upon that contingency , that arises from the indifferency or equality of eligibility in objects . Lastly ...
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... human affairs , because there is certainly divination , it appearing in many places , things , and times , and that not only private , but especially public . Sooth- sayers foresee many things , the augurs many ; many things are ...
... human affairs , because there is certainly divination , it appearing in many places , things , and times , and that not only private , but especially public . Sooth- sayers foresee many things , the augurs many ; many things are ...
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... human being can have any foresight of . For if men who excel others in sciences can foretell many things which the less experienced cannot see before they happen , who would deny the same faculty to genii , more powerful and acute than ...
... human being can have any foresight of . For if men who excel others in sciences can foretell many things which the less experienced cannot see before they happen , who would deny the same faculty to genii , more powerful and acute than ...
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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.