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... arguments out of such drab words as vice ( instead of sin ) , and ' rewards and punishments ' , and ' reasonable self - love ' . If he has laid himself open to the charge , not only of heaviness , but of a depressing pessimism , his ...
... arguments out of such drab words as vice ( instead of sin ) , and ' rewards and punishments ' , and ' reasonable self - love ' . If he has laid himself open to the charge , not only of heaviness , but of a depressing pessimism , his ...
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... arguments and ethical statements are as clear and necessary as mathematical demonstrations . In his answer to Butler's fifth letter criticizing his Boyle Lectures , he refers to the Principia , 1 which is , indeed , the dominating ...
... arguments and ethical statements are as clear and necessary as mathematical demonstrations . In his answer to Butler's fifth letter criticizing his Boyle Lectures , he refers to the Principia , 1 which is , indeed , the dominating ...
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... argument he had heard in a coffee - house . A character in one of Berkeley's dialogues says that in a drawing room , a coffee - house , a chocolate house , at the tavern ... and the like fashionable places of resort , it is the custom ...
... argument he had heard in a coffee - house . A character in one of Berkeley's dialogues says that in a drawing room , a coffee - house , a chocolate house , at the tavern ... and the like fashionable places of resort , it is the custom ...
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... argument he largely ignored . Later , Collins went further . He explained away some of Christ's miracles and attacked the argument from prophecy . He held that it was only when prophecies 1 Hunt , Religious Thought in England , ii , 244 ...
... argument he largely ignored . Later , Collins went further . He explained away some of Christ's miracles and attacked the argument from prophecy . He held that it was only when prophecies 1 Hunt , Religious Thought in England , ii , 244 ...
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... argument from silence cannot be pressed . The first result of his decision was that he was admitted as a Commoner to Oriel College , Oxford , on March 17 , 1714 . For a time he gave up all thoughts of ordination . Three weeks after he ...
... argument from silence cannot be pressed . The first result of his decision was that he was admitted as a Commoner to Oriel College , Oxford , on March 17 , 1714 . For a time he gave up all thoughts of ordination . Three weeks after he ...
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Sida 13 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Sida 48 - And that when we are commanded to love the Lord our God, with all our heart, and with all our mind...
Sida 90 - And so I live, you see, Go through the world, try, prove, reject, Prefer, still struggling to effect My warfare ; happy that I can Be crossed and thwarted as a man, Not left in God's contempt apart, With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, fame in earth's paddock as her prize.
Sida 46 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Sida 44 - ... one may wish, is not in reality a sufficient motive of virtue in such a creature as man; but this reason joined with those affections which God has impressed upon his heart, and when these are allowed scope to exercise themselves, but under strict government and direction of reason, then it is we act suitably to our nature, and to the circumstances God has placed us in.
Sida 35 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Sida 33 - In Roman Catholic countries, people cannot pass a day without having religion recalled to their thoughts, by some or other memorial of it ; by some ceremony or public religious form occurring in their way; besides their frequent holidays, the short prayers they are daily called to, and the occasional devotions enjoined by confessors.
Sida 49 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
Sida 30 - Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost, is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing ! W.