The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 |
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... look across the millions of ages which have elapsed , and from an ulterior post of observation look again to another and another succession of centuries ; and at each further extremity in this series of retro- spects , stretch backward ...
... look across the millions of ages which have elapsed , and from an ulterior post of observation look again to another and another succession of centuries ; and at each further extremity in this series of retro- spects , stretch backward ...
Page 100
... look for the ground both of its first and its abiding existence . But the thing which has existed for ever must also have some ground on which it continues to be , rather than that it should not be , or go to annihilation ; and this ...
... look for the ground both of its first and its abiding existence . But the thing which has existed for ever must also have some ground on which it continues to be , rather than that it should not be , or go to annihilation ; and this ...
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... look the strength of such evidence for a creation in the Jewish Scriptures were not merely unchristian but unphilosophical . Yet it is with the air , and apparently under the sanction of philosophy that this evidence has of late been ...
... look the strength of such evidence for a creation in the Jewish Scriptures were not merely unchristian but unphilosophical . Yet it is with the air , and apparently under the sanction of philosophy that this evidence has of late been ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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