An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volumen2F. Stephens, 1732 - 111 páginas |
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... Creatures be effentially and neceffari'y finite , as well as the exercife of all their other Powers : and tho ' it has no bounds as to the nun ber and kind of its Objects , yet it must be limited as to its own Nature and the degree of ...
... Creatures be effentially and neceffari'y finite , as well as the exercife of all their other Powers : and tho ' it has no bounds as to the nun ber and kind of its Objects , yet it must be limited as to its own Nature and the degree of ...
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... Creatures , and upon it they depend , his own as almost every one acknowledges . For created Caufe of Beings have all that they have from the Will of Goodness God ; nor can they be any thing else than what in the he willed . ' Tis plain ...
... Creatures , and upon it they depend , his own as almost every one acknowledges . For created Caufe of Beings have all that they have from the Will of Goodness God ; nor can they be any thing else than what in the he willed . ' Tis plain ...
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... Creatures . For before that E- lection , which is declared to be the Caufe of Good- nefs in created Beings , nothing could be either Good or Bad ; but when the Election is made , that only is Evil which obftructs the execution of it ...
... Creatures . For before that E- lection , which is declared to be the Caufe of Good- nefs in created Beings , nothing could be either Good or Bad ; but when the Election is made , that only is Evil which obftructs the execution of it ...
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... Creature with certain Parts and Pro- perties , and that instead of that Creature he cou'd make ano- ther without them all , that should have quite different parts and attributes . ' Tis therefore merely from his Will that Creatures are ...
... Creature with certain Parts and Pro- perties , and that instead of that Creature he cou'd make ano- ther without them all , that should have quite different parts and attributes . ' Tis therefore merely from his Will that Creatures are ...
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... Creatures , especially the Happiness or Mifery of in- telligent Beings are indifferent to God ? And yet ' tis pretend- ed that the Hypothefis of God's Will being the cause of Good- nefs in the Creature must infer all thefe Abfurdities ...
... Creatures , especially the Happiness or Mifery of in- telligent Beings are indifferent to God ? And yet ' tis pretend- ed that the Hypothefis of God's Will being the cause of Good- nefs in the Creature must infer all thefe Abfurdities ...
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Página 65 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Página 48 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Página 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 444 - ... we must, in this world, gain a relish of truth and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection which are to make us happy in the next.
Página 444 - ... it is for us to gain habits of virtue in this life, if we would enjoy the pleasures of the next.
Página 9 - ... his senses, we do it by comparing it to something that already has, by offering him some similitude, resemblance, or analogy, to help his conception. As for example, to give a man a notion of a country to which he is a stranger, and to make him apprehend...
Página 1 - God, as it is in itself, is incomprehensible by human understanding ; and not only his nature, but likewise his powers and faculties, and the ways and methods in which he exercises them, are so far beyond our reach, that we are utterly incapable of framing exact and adequate notions of them.
Página 424 - ... but they surprise and come upon us from we know not what quarter. If they proceeded from the mobility of spirits, straggling out of order, and fortuitous affections of the brain, or were of the nature of dreams, why are they not as wild, incoherent, and extravagant as they are? Not to add, that the world has generally acknowledged, and therefore...
Página 23 - ... analogy and proportion between them. But then we ought to remember that there is as great a difference between these, when attributed to God, and as they are in us, as between weighing in a balance and thinking ; in truth, infinitely greater...
Página 261 - I think, that the philosophers of old did in vain inquire, whether summum bonum consisted in riches, or bodily delights, or virtue, or contemplation; and they might have as reasonably disputed whether the best relish were to be found in apples, plums, or nuts, and have divided themselves into sects upon it.