The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 117
... 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 superadded to the dull and glimmering light , or rather ...
... 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 superadded to the dull and glimmering light , or rather ...
Page 119
... 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 . Dr. Clarke has failed , we think in his attempt to demonstrate ...
... 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 . Dr. Clarke has failed , we think in his attempt to demonstrate ...
Page 133
... 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 them as separate from himself ...
... 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 them as separate from himself ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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