Lectures on the Atheistic Controversy: Delivered in the Months of February and March, 1834, at Sion Chapel, Bradford, Yorkshire. Forming the First Part of a Course of Lectures on InfidelityJackson and Walford, 1834 - 279 pages |
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... arrangements of a superior and presiding power , - whether there is not a cause of all these causes and effects , to which , as the great first cause , all others are to be referred . Consequently , when atheism has proved that all the ...
... arrangements of a superior and presiding power , - whether there is not a cause of all these causes and effects , to which , as the great first cause , all others are to be referred . Consequently , when atheism has proved that all the ...
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... , was effected without contrivance , so , to account * System of Nature . - Vol . II . p . 28. + Vol . II . p . 18 . for all the marvellous exhibitions of arrangement in the course 20 [ LECT . I. PRESUMPTIVE PROOFS .
... , was effected without contrivance , so , to account * System of Nature . - Vol . II . p . 28. + Vol . II . p . 18 . for all the marvellous exhibitions of arrangement in the course 20 [ LECT . I. PRESUMPTIVE PROOFS .
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... arrangement in the course of nature , on which his existence and happiness depended , he concluded that there must be some mighty agency , working with purpose and design . In this way , we admit , men have reasoned , in this way they ...
... arrangement in the course of nature , on which his existence and happiness depended , he concluded that there must be some mighty agency , working with purpose and design . In this way , we admit , men have reasoned , in this way they ...
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... arrangement his mind is led to the conclusion that they are the works of a wise , good , and powerful being ; -in other words , that there exists a God.t * See a most excellent chapter in Mr. Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise , ' On ...
... arrangement his mind is led to the conclusion that they are the works of a wise , good , and powerful being ; -in other words , that there exists a God.t * See a most excellent chapter in Mr. Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise , ' On ...
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... arrangements of the earth , are his appointments ; the whole economy of nature is under his superintendence . All power is weakness , all wisdom ignorance , all glory as nothing and vanity , when compared to the perfection of such a ...
... arrangements of the earth , are his appointments ; the whole economy of nature is under his superintendence . All power is weakness , all wisdom ignorance , all glory as nothing and vanity , when compared to the perfection of such a ...
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