A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in England in the Last and Present Century: With Observations Upon Them, and Some Account of the Answers that Have Been Published Against Them. In Several Letters to a Friend, Τόμος 2B. Dod, 1755 - 483 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 13
... course of na- ture may change ; and that the past may be no rule for the future ; experience can give " rife to no inference or conclufion * . " But is the probability of a thing deftroyed , accord- ing to any way of reafoning allowed ...
... course of na- ture may change ; and that the past may be no rule for the future ; experience can give " rife to no inference or conclufion * . " But is the probability of a thing deftroyed , accord- ing to any way of reafoning allowed ...
Σελίδα 14
... course of nature , never to be violated's but here , in order to fhew , that no probable reason can be brought from experience , concerning the con- nection of caufe and effect , he fuppofes , that there may be a fufpicion that the course ...
... course of nature , never to be violated's but here , in order to fhew , that no probable reason can be brought from experience , concerning the con- nection of caufe and effect , he fuppofes , that there may be a fufpicion that the course ...
Σελίδα 19
... course of his reafoning , he really leaves no place for caufation , diftinct from fimilarity or refemblance , and contiguity . It may be mentioned , as another inftance of his inconfiftency , that he frequently makes power , and ...
... course of his reafoning , he really leaves no place for caufation , diftinct from fimilarity or refemblance , and contiguity . It may be mentioned , as another inftance of his inconfiftency , that he frequently makes power , and ...
Σελίδα 26
... course of nature to a par- ticular intelligent canfe , because the fubject lies entirely beyond the reach of human experience , and because God is a fingular caufe , and the universe a fingular effect , and therefore we cannot argue by ...
... course of nature to a par- ticular intelligent canfe , because the fubject lies entirely beyond the reach of human experience , and because God is a fingular caufe , and the universe a fingular effect , and therefore we cannot argue by ...
Σελίδα 28
... course of nature , " and infer a particular intelligent cause , which << at first bestowed , and ftill preferves order " in the univerfe , we embrace a principle " which is both uncertain and useless . The " reafon he gives why it is ...
... course of nature , " and infer a particular intelligent cause , which << at first bestowed , and ftill preferves order " in the univerfe , we embrace a principle " which is both uncertain and useless . The " reafon he gives why it is ...
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Σελίδα 62 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Σελίδα 434 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Σελίδα 10 - But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea, or the aptitude of the one to produce the other?
Σελίδα 82 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of...
Σελίδα 497 - God will bring every work into judgment, with every fecret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Σελίδα 61 - ... there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist.
Σελίδα 473 - God ? haft thou not known ? haft thou not heard, that the everlafting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no fearching of his underftanding. He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might, he increafeth ftrength.
Σελίδα 625 - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required : and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Σελίδα 352 - ... of the rants of the Portic, that we owe our virtue to ourselves, not to God. It would be equally false to say, that we owe our happiness to ourselves, not to God. But this may be said with truth, that God, when he gave us reason, left us to our free-will to make a proper, or improper, use of it: so that we are obliged to our Creator for a certain rule and sufficient means of arriving at happiness, and have none to blame but ourselves, when we fail of it.
Σελίδα 63 - But, according to the principle here explained, this subtraction with regard to all popular religions amounts to an entire annihilation, and therefore we may establish it as a maxim that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.