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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... question : whether or not it is in the power of an evil demon to seduce men by miracles into the adoption of errors . But the most learned of the English and other theologians who since Dr. Cudworth laboured in the investigation of this ...
... question : whether or not it is in the power of an evil demon to seduce men by miracles into the adoption of errors . But the most learned of the English and other theologians who since Dr. Cudworth laboured in the investigation of this ...
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... question . Besides , scarcely any doctrine is so absurd that its author and propounder cannot reclaim it from the class of indifferent things , and contend for its being easily susceptible of demon- stration by the help of reason . But ...
... question . Besides , scarcely any doctrine is so absurd that its author and propounder cannot reclaim it from the class of indifferent things , and contend for its being easily susceptible of demon- stration by the help of reason . But ...
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... question . All sen- sible men will admit , what indeed we have already admitted , that the power of evil demons is not so great as to enable them to disturb the laws of nature and perform real miracles . On the other hand , however , I ...
... question . All sen- sible men will admit , what indeed we have already admitted , that the power of evil demons is not so great as to enable them to disturb the laws of nature and perform real miracles . On the other hand , however , I ...
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... question that Moses is speaking of things which can take place , although they may not do so in reality . Wherefore , I have no doubt but that this prophecy is to be understood of such signs and wonders , as have in reference to mankind ...
... question that Moses is speaking of things which can take place , although they may not do so in reality . Wherefore , I have no doubt but that this prophecy is to be understood of such signs and wonders , as have in reference to mankind ...
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... question respecting the distinctive marks of miracles . For it is unnecessary to inquire , by what signs the miracles either of God himself and his angels , or of good and wicked demons , may be distinguished , if we are certain that ...
... question respecting the distinctive marks of miracles . For it is unnecessary to inquire , by what signs the miracles either of God himself and his angels , or of good and wicked demons , may be distinguished , if we are certain that ...
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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.