An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 2Hunt and Clarke, 1826 - 438 pages |
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Page 34
... fault , in not acknowledging that God alone can produce in our soul that state which makes it happy . Self - existence of Matter . Some of Epicurus's apologists should have endea- voured to shew that his impiety was a natural conse ...
... fault , in not acknowledging that God alone can produce in our soul that state which makes it happy . Self - existence of Matter . Some of Epicurus's apologists should have endea- voured to shew that his impiety was a natural conse ...
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... faults , which would render their new condition worse than the former , he will not meddle with them , but abandon them to themselves ; and judges , that he will act with more wisdom and good- ness in leaving things as he finds them ...
... faults , which would render their new condition worse than the former , he will not meddle with them , but abandon them to themselves ; and judges , that he will act with more wisdom and good- ness in leaving things as he finds them ...
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... faults , or preventing their increase ; we require an idea of the most unhappy nature that can be con- ceived . He designed to build a magnificent palace for the accommodation of animated creatures , which were to come out of the ...
... faults , or preventing their increase ; we require an idea of the most unhappy nature that can be con- ceived . He designed to build a magnificent palace for the accommodation of animated creatures , which were to come out of the ...
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... fault in his answer ; he fancies he can extricate himself from this difficulty , by clearing pro- vidence ; provided , he affirms , that vices have their original in the soul of man . How came he not to perceive that he shuns the ...
... fault in his answer ; he fancies he can extricate himself from this difficulty , by clearing pro- vidence ; provided , he affirms , that vices have their original in the soul of man . How came he not to perceive that he shuns the ...
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... fault . This is the origin of moral and physical evil . Let Marcion and all the Manichees reason as much as they please to show that , under a Providence infinitely good and holy , this fall of an innocent man could not happen , they ...
... fault . This is the origin of moral and physical evil . Let Marcion and all the Manichees reason as much as they please to show that , under a Providence infinitely good and holy , this fall of an innocent man could not happen , they ...
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