An Enquiry Into the Rationale of Christianity1758 - 318 pages |
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... Cause , without afcribing to Him a certain moral character or nature . Whatever He is , he must be to an infinite degree . His moral character must therefore be infinitely good , because infinite evil is a felf - contradictory idea ...
... Cause , without afcribing to Him a certain moral character or nature . Whatever He is , he must be to an infinite degree . His moral character must therefore be infinitely good , because infinite evil is a felf - contradictory idea ...
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... cause the point was not , to raise moral agents to the highest perfection at random , or per faltum ; and , at all adventures , powerfully and irrefift- ibly to prevent vice and mifery from entering into the univerfe ; but to do that ...
... cause the point was not , to raise moral agents to the highest perfection at random , or per faltum ; and , at all adventures , powerfully and irrefift- ibly to prevent vice and mifery from entering into the univerfe ; but to do that ...
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... cause other laws and modifications of laws , be- fides this one fimple law of attraction , take place ; fuch as repulfion , cohefion , projectile forces , and the like ; the compound action of which produces not a fimple but a compound ...
... cause other laws and modifications of laws , be- fides this one fimple law of attraction , take place ; fuch as repulfion , cohefion , projectile forces , and the like ; the compound action of which produces not a fimple but a compound ...
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... causes regularly produce their effects , and effects follow regularly their respective causes ; fo that we can reafon upon them , as far as our knowledge goes , with fafety and certainty . IT is to be kept in mind , that what we call a ...
... causes regularly produce their effects , and effects follow regularly their respective causes ; fo that we can reafon upon them , as far as our knowledge goes , with fafety and certainty . IT is to be kept in mind , that what we call a ...
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... cause of happiness or misery , in fuch a manner , that , while they continue in fuch states , they cannot , according to the nature of things , be other than happy , in a state intended for hap- pinefs , and contrariwife . By states I ...
... cause of happiness or misery , in fuch a manner , that , while they continue in fuch states , they cannot , according to the nature of things , be other than happy , in a state intended for hap- pinefs , and contrariwife . By states I ...
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Page 175 - I am he that liveth and was dead : and behold, I am alive for evermore : and have the keys of hell and of death.
Page 132 - And the Lord God faid, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now left he put forth his hand and take alfo of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 114 - For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.
Page 171 - And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Page 114 - For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth...
Page 171 - He that is not with me, is againft me: and he that gathereth not with me, fcattereth.
Page 169 - Chrift is rifen from the dead: and become the firft-fruits of them that flept. . For fince by man came death : by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead.
Page 172 - faw an angel come down from heaven, " having the key of the bottomlcfs pit, and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old ferpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound
Page 170 - Or elfe, how can one enter into a ftrong mans houfe, and fpoil his goods, except he firft bind the ftrong man ? and then he will fpoil his houfe.
Page 169 - As is the earthy, fuch are they that are earthy : and as is the heavenly, fuch are they alfo that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we mall alfo bear the image of the heavenly.