An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volumen2F. Stephens, 1732 - 111 páginas |
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... believe that this is the Cafe . XII . Now , from this Hypothefis , which they extend to the Divine as well as Human Will , the their Opi nion there following Corollaries feem deducible . First , that is no con- nothing in Nature could ...
... believe that this is the Cafe . XII . Now , from this Hypothefis , which they extend to the Divine as well as Human Will , the their Opi nion there following Corollaries feem deducible . First , that is no con- nothing in Nature could ...
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... believe by means of this Faculty we may generally speaking be fo far happy , and that is fufficient to juftify God's putting us into our present Circumftances . But if by Happiness be meant , as ought to be , a ftate wherein we have a ...
... believe by means of this Faculty we may generally speaking be fo far happy , and that is fufficient to juftify God's putting us into our present Circumftances . But if by Happiness be meant , as ought to be , a ftate wherein we have a ...
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... believe it will appear , that at the fame time that he opposed the true Notion of Free - Will , he con- tradicted common Sense and Experience as well as himself . For in the first place , is it not felf - evident , that we often do not ...
... believe it will appear , that at the fame time that he opposed the true Notion of Free - Will , he con- tradicted common Sense and Experience as well as himself . For in the first place , is it not felf - evident , that we often do not ...
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... believe Mr. Locke here fets the Word Defire to fignify what we commonly mean by Will , as he does in Sect . 48. where ' tis call'd the Power of preferring and puts Volition into the place of Action ; as feems probable from his ...
... believe Mr. Locke here fets the Word Defire to fignify what we commonly mean by Will , as he does in Sect . 48. where ' tis call'd the Power of preferring and puts Volition into the place of Action ; as feems probable from his ...
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... believe that God is invefted with it . Because nothing external is either before Election . II . For in the firft place , nothing in the Crea- tion is either Good or Bad to him before his Elec- tion , he has no Appetite to gratify with ...
... believe that God is invefted with it . Because nothing external is either before Election . II . For in the firft place , nothing in the Crea- tion is either Good or Bad to him before his Elec- tion , he has no Appetite to gratify with ...
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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.