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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... demonstration of a God : which assertion of theirs hath been by others misunderstood into this sense , as if there were therefore no certainty at all to be had of God's existence , but only a conjectural probability ; no know- ledge or ...
... demonstration of a God : which assertion of theirs hath been by others misunderstood into this sense , as if there were therefore no certainty at all to be had of God's existence , but only a conjectural probability ; no know- ledge or ...
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... demonstration , though not of the Stóri , yet of the ört of it ; that the thing is , though not why it is . And many of the geometrical demonstrations are no other.3 3 The question here touched upon by the learned Doctor : Whether or ...
... demonstration , though not of the Stóri , yet of the ört of it ; that the thing is , though not why it is . And many of the geometrical demonstrations are no other.3 3 The question here touched upon by the learned Doctor : Whether or ...
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... demonstration cannot be [ accommodated to those arguments , by which reason apprehends the existence of God . Aristotle , Analyt . Posterior . lib . 1 . cap . 2. p . 188. tom . 1. opp . lays down this rule respecting demonstration ...
... demonstration cannot be [ accommodated to those arguments , by which reason apprehends the existence of God . Aristotle , Analyt . Posterior . lib . 1 . cap . 2. p . 188. tom . 1. opp . lays down this rule respecting demonstration ...
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... demonstrations for the same , we must at length gratify the Atheists with this con- fession in the conclusion , that it ... demonstration . But Des Cartes denies it , and maintains , whether sincerely or not I cannot say , that God can ...
... demonstrations for the same , we must at length gratify the Atheists with this con- fession in the conclusion , that it ... demonstration . But Des Cartes denies it , and maintains , whether sincerely or not I cannot say , that God can ...
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... demonstration had possessed greater perspicuity and clearness to me certainly , on attentively reading and examining it over and over again , it has appeared somewhat perplexed and intricate . For this reason I have determined to ...
... demonstration had possessed greater perspicuity and clearness to me certainly , on attentively reading and examining it over and over again , it has appeared somewhat perplexed and intricate . For this reason I have determined to ...
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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.