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 3 |
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... certain marks in any miracle , which will enable us to discern whether it has been performed by God , or by a demon or spirit ; for that no mortal knows what limits there are to the power of demons , good or bad , and there- fore that ...
... certain marks in any miracle , which will enable us to discern whether it has been performed by God , or by a demon or spirit ; for that no mortal knows what limits there are to the power of demons , good or bad , and there- fore that ...
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... certain crafty impostors . The more sagacious and intelligent , unless God were to dazzle their mental perception by some miracle , would find no difficulty in detecting the frauds of Antichrist , and avoiding his snares . Lastly , the ...
... certain crafty impostors . The more sagacious and intelligent , unless God were to dazzle their mental perception by some miracle , would find no difficulty in detecting the frauds of Antichrist , and avoiding his snares . Lastly , the ...
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... certain demons were at hand to assist them , and having suddenly snatched up the rods , cast down serpents , of which there were at that time immense numbers in Egypt . They next turn water into blood , or rather gave it the colour of ...
... certain demons were at hand to assist them , and having suddenly snatched up the rods , cast down serpents , of which there were at that time immense numbers in Egypt . They next turn water into blood , or rather gave it the colour of ...
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... certain understanding beings superior to men , called by him idols , 3 which having a larger comprehension of things , and other advantages of knowledge , could therefore foretell many future events that men were ignorant of . And ...
... certain understanding beings superior to men , called by him idols , 3 which having a larger comprehension of things , and other advantages of knowledge , could therefore foretell many future events that men were ignorant of . And ...
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... certain that there is nothing absurd or contrary to reason in the opinion of those who suppose demons to have sometimes really delivered oracles , I consider I shall do right , if I refrain from fully assenting to either view . On ...
... certain that there is nothing absurd or contrary to reason in the opinion of those who suppose demons to have sometimes really delivered oracles , I consider I shall do right , if I refrain from fully assenting to either view . On ...
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Page 363 - 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 339 - Now He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is GOD, Who also hath given unto us the earnest of the SPIRIT.
Page 629 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, From the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; When there were no fountains abounding with water.
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 312 - 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 509 - 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 510 - And covenants without the sword are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all. Therefore notwithstanding the laws of nature (which every one hath then kept, when he has the will to keep them, when he can do it safely), if there be no power erected, or not great enough for our security, every man will, and may lawfully rely on his own strength and art, for caution against all other men.
Page 271 - ... quin et supremo cum lumine vita reliquit, non tamen omne malum miseris nec funditus omnes corporeae excedunt pestes, penitusque necesse est multa diu concreta modis inolescere miris.
Page 475 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 504 - 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.