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 ix
... judge of his proceedings no farther than we now fee of them , and therefore can- not infer any rewards or punishments beyond what is already known to us by experience and observation . The great usefulness of believing future ...
... judge of his proceedings no farther than we now fee of them , and therefore can- not infer any rewards or punishments beyond what is already known to us by experience and observation . The great usefulness of believing future ...
Σελίδα xiv
... judges , nor in that of the kings , nor after the Babylonifh captivity . The charge of inconfiftencies in the Mofaic accounts , confidered . The grand objection against the Mofaic history drawn from the incredible nature of the falls ...
... judges , nor in that of the kings , nor after the Babylonifh captivity . The charge of inconfiftencies in the Mofaic accounts , confidered . The grand objection against the Mofaic history drawn from the incredible nature of the falls ...
Σελίδα 13
... judge of the ordinary courfe of nature , the understand- ing may justly draw a probable argument or conclufion , that from fuch and fuch causes , so circumftanced , fuch effects will follow . This inference is perfectly rational . And ...
... judge of the ordinary courfe of nature , the understand- ing may justly draw a probable argument or conclufion , that from fuch and fuch causes , so circumftanced , fuch effects will follow . This inference is perfectly rational . And ...
Σελίδα 15
... judge of philofophy , by the fpecimen this Gentleman hath given of it in this inftance , many would be apt to con- clude , that there is a great difference , and even oppofition , between philofophy and common fense ; that what is fo ...
... judge of philofophy , by the fpecimen this Gentleman hath given of it in this inftance , many would be apt to con- clude , that there is a great difference , and even oppofition , between philofophy and common fense ; that what is fo ...
Σελίδα 22
... judge of this gentleman's character as a writer , whether it deferveth all the admiration and ap- plaufe , which he himself , as well as others , have been willing to bestow upon it . We may fee , by what hath been obferved , how far he ...
... judge of this gentleman's character as a writer , whether it deferveth all the admiration and ap- plaufe , which he himself , as well as others , have been willing to bestow upon it . We may fee , by what hath been obferved , how far he ...
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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.