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Page 177
... that things have not continued to be as they are at present , we shall not say from the beginning of the Creation , for the fact of a Creation is that which we are now in quest of — but that they have not so been from Eternity 13.
... that things have not continued to be as they are at present , we shall not say from the beginning of the Creation , for the fact of a Creation is that which we are now in quest of — but that they have not so been from Eternity 13.
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The detailed history of creation in the first chapter of Genesis begins at the middle of the second verse ; and what precedes might be understood as an introductory sentence , by which we are most appositely told both that God created ...
The detailed history of creation in the first chapter of Genesis begins at the middle of the second verse ; and what precedes might be understood as an introductory sentence , by which we are most appositely told both that God created ...
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It is not from the former , any more than from the eternal truths of geometry , that we can demonstrate the existence or attributes of God — but from the latter , as belonging to the facts of a creation emanating from His will ...
It is not from the former , any more than from the eternal truths of geometry , that we can demonstrate the existence or attributes of God — but from the latter , as belonging to the facts of a creation emanating from His will ...
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Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
on the side of Theism | 121 |
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| Title | The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1 The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Thomas Chalmers |
| Author | Thomas Chalmers |
| Publisher | W. Collins, 1836 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2019 |
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