An Enquiry After Philosophy and Theology: Tending to Show when and Whence Mankind Came at the Knowledge of These Two Important PointsSands, Donaldson, Murray, and Cochran. Sold by A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson, 1755 - 425 pages |
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... perfon ; directly oppofite , as I faid above , to the Christian faith ; which teaches , that he exists in three perfons . Omnis homo , quatenus res fentiens , eft unus et idem homo , durante vita fua , in omnibus et fingulis fen- Optics ...
... perfon ; directly oppofite , as I faid above , to the Christian faith ; which teaches , that he exists in three perfons . Omnis homo , quatenus res fentiens , eft unus et idem homo , durante vita fua , in omnibus et fingulis fen- Optics ...
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... perfon have sometimes paved the way for another to come at the truth . may I have fallen short in my explica- tion of the manner how the agents act and perform their office : but I think it will evidently appear to an unbiassed read- er ...
... perfon have sometimes paved the way for another to come at the truth . may I have fallen short in my explica- tion of the manner how the agents act and perform their office : but I think it will evidently appear to an unbiassed read- er ...
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... perfon it will at least seem pro- bable , human imagination , especially in matters of philofophy : for I find , that Cardinal Cufa is of opinion , that not only the moon and planets are worlds , but that the fixed stars , and also the ...
... perfon it will at least seem pro- bable , human imagination , especially in matters of philofophy : for I find , that Cardinal Cufa is of opinion , that not only the moon and planets are worlds , but that the fixed stars , and also the ...
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... perfon , con- trary to their ordinary operations : and this was convincing evidence , even to demon- ftration , that the heavens were not , what their worshippers took them to be , a god , but the workmanship of God ; and that God was ...
... perfon , con- trary to their ordinary operations : and this was convincing evidence , even to demon- ftration , that the heavens were not , what their worshippers took them to be , a god , but the workmanship of God ; and that God was ...
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... perfon born blind , of about fourteen years old , couched and cured by Mr Chefelden , 1729 , is a proof of this . Every thing he faw feemed at firft to be upon his eyes , and to touch them , as the objects of the sense of feel- ing ...
... perfon born blind , of about fourteen years old , couched and cured by Mr Chefelden , 1729 , is a proof of this . Every thing he faw feemed at firft to be upon his eyes , and to touch them , as the objects of the sense of feel- ing ...
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Page 325 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 376 - For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us...
Page 326 - O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me : and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling.
Page 341 - Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.
Page 82 - The vis inertiae is a passive Principle by which Bodies persist in their Motion or Rest, receive Motion in proportion to the Force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. By this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in the World.
Page 287 - And though this increase of density may at great distances be exceeding slow, yet if the elastic force of this medium be exceeding great it may suffice to impel bodies from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer with all that power which we call gravity.
Page 300 - Fermentation, by which the Heart and Blood of Animals are kept in perpetual Motion and Heat; the inward Parts of the Earth are constantly...
Page 242 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 323 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.