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... truth . Ideas which are so clear and distinct that they seem axiomatic and almost innate are probably those which were taught us so young that we do not remember that we ever had to learn them.1 But that does not prove their truth . To ...
... truth . Ideas which are so clear and distinct that they seem axiomatic and almost innate are probably those which were taught us so young that we do not remember that we ever had to learn them.1 But that does not prove their truth . To ...
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... truth , has to be abandoned . " Thomas Hobbes ( 1588-1679 ) , the author of the Leviathan ( 1651 ) , in reply to whom Butler's more con- spicuous ethical positions were defined , was for many years a member of Descartes ' circle in ...
... truth , has to be abandoned . " Thomas Hobbes ( 1588-1679 ) , the author of the Leviathan ( 1651 ) , in reply to whom Butler's more con- spicuous ethical positions were defined , was for many years a member of Descartes ' circle in ...
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... truth is rather God's charge , and the continuance of charity ours , ' and that the vitals of religion ' are few . Ralph Cudworth ( 1617-1688 ) said that he contended ' not for this or that opinion , but only to persuade men to the life ...
... truth is rather God's charge , and the continuance of charity ours , ' and that the vitals of religion ' are few . Ralph Cudworth ( 1617-1688 ) said that he contended ' not for this or that opinion , but only to persuade men to the life ...
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... truth . All the deistical and semi - deistical writers believed in free - will , it is true , but Spinoza's attitude towards revelation and miracles had much influence in the next sixty years . Spinoza , like Descartes , was a ...
... truth . All the deistical and semi - deistical writers believed in free - will , it is true , but Spinoza's attitude towards revelation and miracles had much influence in the next sixty years . Spinoza , like Descartes , was a ...
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... truth , which is found in its perfect adaptation to the heart of man . It was reserved for him to develop its analogy to the Constitution and Course of Nature . And laying his strong foundations in the depth of that great argument ...
... truth , which is found in its perfect adaptation to the heart of man . It was reserved for him to develop its analogy to the Constitution and Course of Nature . And laying his strong foundations in the depth of that great argument ...
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¹ Analogy Analogy of Nature argument authority believe benevolence Bishop Butler Bishop of Bristol Bishop of Durham Boyle Lectures Bristol Butler's Analogy Chapter Christianity Church claims Clarke clergy conscience credible Deism Deists Descartes Divine doctrine doubt Durham duty eighteenth century English Essay ethics evidence experience fact faculties faith God's Gospel happiness Haughton-le-Skerne Hobbes human nature Ibid ignorance Illustrations implies important infallibility influence interest J. H. Newman letter light LITURGICAL COLOURS live Logic Lord Lord Acton man's mankind Mark Pattison means method miracles modern moral government mystery natural religion Newton objections obligation Oriel College perfect persons preached Preface principles probability proof prophecy prove reason religious revelation rewards and punishments Rolls Sermons Roman says scheme scholasticism Scripture Secker self-love selfishness sense shews Spirit teaches theology things thought tion true truth universe virtue W. E. GLADSTONE whole writers
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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.