An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volumen2F. Stephens, 1732 - 111 páginas |
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... Matter con- cerning Moral Evils more fully understood , we muft confider in the 1st Place , What the nature of Elections is . 2dly , That our Happiness chiefly depends upon Elections . 3dly , What kind of Elections may be faid to be ...
... Matter con- cerning Moral Evils more fully understood , we muft confider in the 1st Place , What the nature of Elections is . 2dly , That our Happiness chiefly depends upon Elections . 3dly , What kind of Elections may be faid to be ...
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... Matter to understand them , the Opi- or to give a certain and true reprefentation of their cerning Opinions . I think they may be diftinguifh'd into Liberty . two Sorts , both admitting of a Liberty ; One of Some ac- them from external ...
... Matter to understand them , the Opi- or to give a certain and true reprefentation of their cerning Opinions . I think they may be diftinguifh'd into Liberty . two Sorts , both admitting of a Liberty ; One of Some ac- them from external ...
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... Matter and Motion . But God has fo or- der'd it , that to be virtuous is fufficient to make a Man happy . If therefore the Soul follows Reafon and the Orders God has given her , fhe is fure to be happy , altho ' fhe cannot find enough ...
... Matter and Motion . But God has fo or- der'd it , that to be virtuous is fufficient to make a Man happy . If therefore the Soul follows Reafon and the Orders God has given her , fhe is fure to be happy , altho ' fhe cannot find enough ...
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... Matter . For if the things to be done be Good or Evil in themselves , but un- known to the Intellect , there's no help in the Will ; ters , and then ' tis of no use or impor- tance . NOTES . nor " ther ? Is it in his Choice , whether he ...
... Matter . For if the things to be done be Good or Evil in themselves , but un- known to the Intellect , there's no help in the Will ; ters , and then ' tis of no use or impor- tance . NOTES . nor " ther ? Is it in his Choice , whether he ...
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... matter what we do , fince the Conveniencies and Inconveniencies are equal on both Sides . If then we admit of Liberty in these Cafes , it will be of no ufe or importance to Life or Happiness : S 2 Nay , NOTES . profpect of fome Good ...
... matter what we do , fince the Conveniencies and Inconveniencies are equal on both Sides . If then we admit of Liberty in these Cafes , it will be of no ufe or importance to Life or Happiness : S 2 Nay , NOTES . profpect of fome Good ...
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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.