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... requires more particular preparation than any other , which is an idea that could never occur to any person in perufing the New Teftament only , and can be nothing but the remains of the popish doctrine of tranfubftantiation . Other ...
... requires more particular preparation than any other , which is an idea that could never occur to any person in perufing the New Teftament only , and can be nothing but the remains of the popish doctrine of tranfubftantiation . Other ...
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... requires of us , and what we have to expect from him . If it be true that a perfon , pretending to be fent from God , hath affured us of a future life , it certainly behoves us to exa- mine his pretentions to divine authority ; and if ...
... requires of us , and what we have to expect from him . If it be true that a perfon , pretending to be fent from God , hath affured us of a future life , it certainly behoves us to exa- mine his pretentions to divine authority ; and if ...
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... require a cause , infinites admit of none . It is evi- dent , that nothing can begin to be with- out a caufe ; but it by no means follows from thence , that that must have had a cause which had no beginning . But what- ever there may be ...
... require a cause , infinites admit of none . It is evi- dent , that nothing can begin to be with- out a caufe ; but it by no means follows from thence , that that must have had a cause which had no beginning . But what- ever there may be ...
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... requires a caufe , as a fingle finite being ; and we have as little fatisfaction in confidering one of them as uncaused , as we have in confidering the other . It was faid , by the Epicureans of old , that all things were formed by the ...
... requires a caufe , as a fingle finite being ; and we have as little fatisfaction in confidering one of them as uncaused , as we have in confidering the other . It was faid , by the Epicureans of old , that all things were formed by the ...
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... require no other proof of this , than the impoffibility of conceiving whence a change could arise in a being uncaused . If there was no caufe of his existence it- felf , it seems to follow , that there could be no caufe of a change in ...
... require no other proof of this , than the impoffibility of conceiving whence a change could arise in a being uncaused . If there was no caufe of his existence it- felf , it seems to follow , that there could be no caufe of a change in ...
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