The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism: Demonstrated from the Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, the Faculties of Humane Souls, the Structure of Animate Bodies, & the Origin and Frame of the World : in Eight Sermons Preached at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle ... in the First Year, MDCXCIIJ.H., 1699 - 280 sidor |
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... former reafon of Epicurus , to decline the publick odium , and resentment of the Magiftrate ; and that they cover the most arrant Atheism under the mask and shadow of a Deity : by which they un- derstand no more , than some eternal ...
... former reafon of Epicurus , to decline the publick odium , and resentment of the Magiftrate ; and that they cover the most arrant Atheism under the mask and shadow of a Deity : by which they un- derstand no more , than some eternal ...
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... former , what a miferable con- dition would Mankind be in ? What whisper could be low enough , but many would over - hear it ? What Affairs , that moft require it , could be trans acted with secrecy ? and whither could we retire from ...
... former , what a miferable con- dition would Mankind be in ? What whisper could be low enough , but many would over - hear it ? What Affairs , that moft require it , could be trans acted with secrecy ? and whither could we retire from ...
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... Race ; and yet being illiterate Rufticks ( as Moun tainers always are ) they can preferve no Memoirs of former times , nor propagate any Sciences or Arts ; Arts ; and so the world must needs be thought from the Origin of Humane Bodies . 87.
... Race ; and yet being illiterate Rufticks ( as Moun tainers always are ) they can preferve no Memoirs of former times , nor propagate any Sciences or Arts ; Arts ; and so the world must needs be thought from the Origin of Humane Bodies . 87.
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... former part of this Enquiry I have exa- min'd and refuted two Atheistical Notions opposed to the great Doctrine of the Text , That we owe our Living and Being to the power of God : The one of the Ariftotelian Atheists , who , to avoid ...
... former part of this Enquiry I have exa- min'd and refuted two Atheistical Notions opposed to the great Doctrine of the Text , That we owe our Living and Being to the power of God : The one of the Ariftotelian Atheists , who , to avoid ...
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... former Discourse , how friendly it is to the Im materiality of Humane Souls , and consequently to the Existence of a Supreme Spiritual Being . And I may have occafion hereafter to fhew further , that . all the Powers of Mechanism are ...
... former Discourse , how friendly it is to the Im materiality of Humane Souls , and consequently to the Existence of a Supreme Spiritual Being . And I may have occafion hereafter to fhew further , that . all the Powers of Mechanism are ...
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Sida 237 - THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Sida 238 - God, Who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless He left not Himself without witness, in that He did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Sida 240 - ... that the soul of one virtuous and religious man is of greater worth and excellency than the sun and his planets, and all the stars in the world.
Sida 224 - Tis utterly inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter, without the mediation of some immaterial being, should operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; that distant bodies should act upon each other through a vacuum, without the intervention of something else, by and through which the action may be conveyed from one to the other.
Sida 241 - ... nor gives the sacrifice of praise and worship to the Author of its being. It remains, therefore, that all bodies were formed for the sake of intelligent minds : and as the earth was principally designed for the being and service and contemplation of men, why may not all other planets be created for the like uses, each for their own inhabitants which have life and understanding...
Sida 41 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art, and man's device.
Sida 138 - For chance is but a mere name, and really nothing in itself; a conception of our own minds, and only a compendious way of speaking, whereby we would express, that such effects as are commonly attributed to chance were verily produced by their true and proper causes, but without their designing to produce them.
Sida 225 - This would be a new and invincible argument for the being of God ; being a direct and positive proof that an immaterial living mind doth inform and actuate the dead matter, and support the frame of the world.
Sida 199 - We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, Who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Sida 35 - But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soulq.