Reason, the Only Oracle of Man: Or, A Compenduous System of Natural ReligionMendum, Cornhill, 1854 - 171 pages |
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... arguments re- specting the eternity and infinity of God will evince . But notwithstanding the series of the succession of causes cannot be followed in a retrospective succession up to the self - existent or eternal cause , it is ...
... arguments re- specting the eternity and infinity of God will evince . But notwithstanding the series of the succession of causes cannot be followed in a retrospective succession up to the self - existent or eternal cause , it is ...
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... argument may be drawn of the reality of a God , however inconsistent most of their conceptions of him may be . The fact is , man- kind readily perceives that there is a God , by feeling their dependence on him , and as they explore his ...
... argument may be drawn of the reality of a God , however inconsistent most of their conceptions of him may be . The fact is , man- kind readily perceives that there is a God , by feeling their dependence on him , and as they explore his ...
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... a self - existent and eternal cause of all things , as has been sufficiently argued , though at the same time it is mysterious to us , that there should be such a being as a self - existent and eternally 14 ORACLES OF REASON . II.
... a self - existent and eternal cause of all things , as has been sufficiently argued , though at the same time it is mysterious to us , that there should be such a being as a self - existent and eternally 14 ORACLES OF REASON . II.
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... argued in the foregoing pages . There are a variety of other blunders in Moses's description of creation , one of which I shall mention , which is to be found in his history of the first and fourth day's work of God : " And God said ...
... argued in the foregoing pages . There are a variety of other blunders in Moses's description of creation , one of which I shall mention , which is to be found in his history of the first and fourth day's work of God : " And God said ...
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... so , and that the display of divine goodness must have been as perfect and complete , in the ante- cedent , as it is possible to be in the subsequent eternity . From this theological way of arguing on the crea- tion ORACLES OF REASON . 19.
... so , and that the display of divine goodness must have been as perfect and complete , in the ante- cedent , as it is possible to be in the subsequent eternity . From this theological way of arguing on the crea- tion ORACLES OF REASON . 19.
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