Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion ...J. Johnson, 1772 |
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... uncaused . Unless we have re- -course to this fuppofition , we cannot ac- count for prefent appearances ; for there is an evident incapacity in every thing we fee of being the cause of its own existence , or of the existence of other ...
... uncaused . Unless we have re- -course to this fuppofition , we cannot ac- count for prefent appearances ; for there is an evident incapacity in every thing we fee of being the cause of its own existence , or of the existence of other ...
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... uncaused . That any being fhould be felf created is evidently abfurd , because that would fup- pofe that he had a being before he had , or that he existed , and did not exist at the fame time . For want of clearer knowledge of this ...
... uncaused . That any being fhould be felf created is evidently abfurd , because that would fup- pofe that he had a being before he had , or that he existed , and did not exist at the fame time . For want of clearer knowledge of this ...
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... uncaused . The race of men , for instance , may have been from eternity , no individual of the species be- ing much fuperior to the rest . But this supposition only involves the question in more obfcurity , and does not approach , in ...
... uncaused . The race of men , for instance , may have been from eternity , no individual of the species be- ing much fuperior to the rest . But this supposition only involves the question in more obfcurity , and does not approach , in ...
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... uncaused , as we have in confidering the other . It was faid , by the Epicureans of old , that all things were formed by the fortui- tous concourfe of atoms , that , originally , there were particles of all kinds floating at random in ...
... uncaused , as we have in confidering the other . It was faid , by the Epicureans of old , that all things were formed by the fortui- tous concourfe of atoms , that , originally , there were particles of all kinds floating at random in ...
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... uncaused being did not exert his perfections , in giving life and happiness to his offspring . We fhall , alfo , find no greater difficulty in admit- ting , that the creation , as it had no begin- ning , fo neither has it any bounds ...
... uncaused being did not exert his perfections , in giving life and happiness to his offspring . We fhall , alfo , find no greater difficulty in admit- ting , that the creation , as it had no begin- ning , fo neither has it any bounds ...
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