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... conceived how in every nation such a state - engineer should rise up with the same trick to keep people in awe . What is the reason we cannot find any law in any one nation to constrain men to the belief of the existence of a God ...
... conceived how in every nation such a state - engineer should rise up with the same trick to keep people in awe . What is the reason we cannot find any law in any one nation to constrain men to the belief of the existence of a God ...
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... conceive a thing to have made itself ; that is against all reason . As they are made , they speak out a Maker , and cannot be a trick of chance , since they are made with such an immense wisdom , that is too big for the grasp of all ...
... conceive a thing to have made itself ; that is against all reason . As they are made , they speak out a Maker , and cannot be a trick of chance , since they are made with such an immense wisdom , that is too big for the grasp of all ...
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... conceive a father before a child , as well as we cannot conceive a child before a father : and ( z ) Daille 20. Serm . Psalm cii . 26. p . 13 , 14. ( a ) Daille , ut supra . ( b ) Petar . Theo . Dogmat Teu . I. lib . i . c . 2. p . 15 ...
... conceive a father before a child , as well as we cannot conceive a child before a father : and ( z ) Daille 20. Serm . Psalm cii . 26. p . 13 , 14. ( a ) Daille , ut supra . ( b ) Petar . Theo . Dogmat Teu . I. lib . i . c . 2. p . 15 ...
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... conceive one first of every kind : one first man , one first animal , one first plant , from whence others do proceed . The argument is unanswerable , and the wisest atheist ( if any atheist can be called wise ) cannot unloose the knot ...
... conceive one first of every kind : one first man , one first animal , one first plant , from whence others do proceed . The argument is unanswerable , and the wisest atheist ( if any atheist can be called wise ) cannot unloose the knot ...
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... conceive and arise in their understandings to an intense heat and a pure light ; and from a corporeal or bodily substance joined with an incorporeal , ( as man is an earthly body and a spiritual soul , ) we ascend to a conception of a ...
... conceive and arise in their understandings to an intense heat and a pure light ; and from a corporeal or bodily substance joined with an incorporeal , ( as man is an earthly body and a spiritual soul , ) we ascend to a conception of a ...
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Page 304 - But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man.
Page 242 - It is as high as heaven ; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Page 104 - But the end of all things is at hand : be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Page 272 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 258 - An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen : in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
Page 400 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 57 - Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, "Thou shalt not covet." But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
Page 227 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength...
Page 62 - I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 453 - The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.