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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... subtle investigation upon this point : let us lay it down merely that the " notion of existence " here is " the notion of the thing existing in so far as it is and exists . " This being established , the proposition : " The notion of a ...
... subtle investigation upon this point : let us lay it down merely that the " notion of existence " here is " the notion of the thing existing in so far as it is and exists . " This being established , the proposition : " The notion of a ...
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... subtle and ingenious though they are , seem to me to be not sufficiently sound and conclusive to warrant our concurrence . Contingent and necessary existence most assuredly are as widely distinct us finite and infinite , nor is the ...
... subtle and ingenious though they are , seem to me to be not sufficiently sound and conclusive to warrant our concurrence . Contingent and necessary existence most assuredly are as widely distinct us finite and infinite , nor is the ...
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... subtle arguments which have been advanced to prove that we can reason from the possi- bility of a most perfect nature to its real existence . " But these defenders of the argument , great and numerous though they be , are equalled in ...
... subtle arguments which have been advanced to prove that we can reason from the possi- bility of a most perfect nature to its real existence . " But these defenders of the argument , great and numerous though they be , are equalled in ...
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... subtle and acute , it proves nothing , and that the whole sum and substance of it amounts to this : " Because the idea of God is not compounded of things repugnant to each other , nor contradicts any known truth , therefore there is ...
... subtle and acute , it proves nothing , and that the whole sum and substance of it amounts to this : " Because the idea of God is not compounded of things repugnant to each other , nor contradicts any known truth , therefore there is ...
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... subtle matter which is unknown to us . Whereas those who grant the existence of a God , but at the same time hold the eternity of matter , some of whom as is well known are to be found Lastly , we shall disprove the truth of this ...
... subtle matter which is unknown to us . Whereas those who grant the existence of a God , but at the same time hold the eternity of matter , some of whom as is well known are to be found Lastly , we shall disprove the truth of this ...
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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.