An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volym 2F. Stephens, 1732 - 111 sidor |
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... Deity by Analogy and Proportion , as we do our Virtues and Paffions , because we have no better way of conceiving the Prin- ciples of his acting which method nevertheless will run us into many Difficulties and Mistakes . But of this I ...
... Deity by Analogy and Proportion , as we do our Virtues and Paffions , because we have no better way of conceiving the Prin- ciples of his acting which method nevertheless will run us into many Difficulties and Mistakes . But of this I ...
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... Deity , for he will have a complacency in his own Choice . And from hence it fufficiently appears of how great Importance it is , that all the Goodness of the Creatures fhould depend on the Divine Election , and not that upon the ...
... Deity , for he will have a complacency in his own Choice . And from hence it fufficiently appears of how great Importance it is , that all the Goodness of the Creatures fhould depend on the Divine Election , and not that upon the ...
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... Deity and their Exercife on outward Objects . But if God had no other reafon for the creation of any thing befide his own Goodness , he was perfectly free and naturally indifferent , to create or not create that thing ; and if he will'd ...
... Deity and their Exercife on outward Objects . But if God had no other reafon for the creation of any thing befide his own Goodness , he was perfectly free and naturally indifferent , to create or not create that thing ; and if he will'd ...
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... Deity muft certainly be Good , Wife , & c . without recurring to any fuch Fitneffes or Relations of things as are by fome unaccountably fuppofed to be antecedent and abfolutely neceffary to the determination of the Will of God himself ...
... Deity muft certainly be Good , Wife , & c . without recurring to any fuch Fitneffes or Relations of things as are by fome unaccountably fuppofed to be antecedent and abfolutely neceffary to the determination of the Will of God himself ...
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... Deity in all Cafes , as well as abfolutely oblige Mankind , nay are the only ground of moral Obligation . I fhall therefore endeavour to explain my felf more fully on this Subject , which appears to me in the following Light . From all ...
... Deity in all Cafes , as well as abfolutely oblige Mankind , nay are the only ground of moral Obligation . I fhall therefore endeavour to explain my felf more fully on this Subject , which appears to me in the following Light . From all ...
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2dly abfolutely abfurd Actions againſt agreeable alfo amifs anſwer arifes becauſe Cafe Caufe Cauſe chofen Choice choofing chooſe cife Circumftances confequently confider'd confiftent contrary cou'd Creatures defire Deity determin'd determine Divine eafy Election Eternity Evil exercife exift Exiſtence Faculties faid fame feems felf felves fenfe fhall fhew fhewn fhould fince firft firſt fome fome things fomething fometimes Free Agents Free-Will ftill fuch things fufficient fuppofe fure God's Goodneſs greateſt Happineſs himſelf impoffible indifferent infinite Inftances itſelf Laws leaſt lefs Liberty manner means Mifery Mind moft Moral moſt Motion muft muſt natural Appetites natural Evils neceffarily neceffary neceffity nefs NOTES Number obferv'd obferve Objects occafion otherwife ourſelves Paffions perfect Perfon pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure poffible pofitive Power prefent Puniſhment purpoſe reafon refpect reprefented Sect ſeems Senfes Syftem thefe themſelves ther theſe things thofe thoſe tion Underſtanding uſe Wiſdom World wou'd
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Sida 65 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Sida 48 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Sida 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Sida 444 - ... we must, in this world, gain a relish of truth and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection which are to make us happy in the next.
Sida 444 - ... it is for us to gain habits of virtue in this life, if we would enjoy the pleasures of the next.
Sida 9 - ... his senses, we do it by comparing it to something that already has, by offering him some similitude, resemblance, or analogy, to help his conception. As for example, to give a man a notion of a country to which he is a stranger, and to make him apprehend...
Sida 1 - God, as it is in itself, is incomprehensible by human understanding ; and not only his nature, but likewise his powers and faculties, and the ways and methods in which he exercises them, are so far beyond our reach, that we are utterly incapable of framing exact and adequate notions of them.
Sida 424 - ... but they surprise and come upon us from we know not what quarter. If they proceeded from the mobility of spirits, straggling out of order, and fortuitous affections of the brain, or were of the nature of dreams, why are they not as wild, incoherent, and extravagant as they are? Not to add, that the world has generally acknowledged, and therefore...
Sida 23 - ... analogy and proportion between them. But then we ought to remember that there is as great a difference between these, when attributed to God, and as they are in us, as between weighing in a balance and thinking ; in truth, infinitely greater...
Sida 261 - I think, that the philosophers of old did in vain inquire, whether summum bonum consisted in riches, or bodily delights, or virtue, or contemplation; and they might have as reasonably disputed whether the best relish were to be found in apples, plums, or nuts, and have divided themselves into sects upon it.