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Page 117
... tinged as it is throughout with the a priori spirit we hold to be altogether mystical and meaningless_insomuch that for the doctrine of an original creation of matter we hold it essential that the light of revelation should be ...
... tinged as it is throughout with the a priori spirit we hold to be altogether mystical and meaningless_insomuch that for the doctrine of an original creation of matter we hold it essential that the light of revelation should be ...
Page 119
... in the finished work of those exquisite fabrications which hold forth irresistibly the marks of contrivance and so of a contriver . * 16. In combating an argument for a doctrine , we are not therefore combating the doctrine itself .
... in the finished work of those exquisite fabrications which hold forth irresistibly the marks of contrivance and so of a contriver . * 16. In combating an argument for a doctrine , we are not therefore combating the doctrine itself .
Page 133
God does not by this workmanship hold himself forth to observers in visible personality as our fellow - creatures do . He has left for our inspection a thousand specimens of skilful and beauteous mechanism ; but he has left us to view ...
God does not by this workmanship hold himself forth to observers in visible personality as our fellow - creatures do . He has left for our inspection a thousand specimens of skilful and beauteous mechanism ; but he has left us to view ...
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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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