The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism: Demonstrated from the Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, the Faculties of Humane Souls, the Structure of Animate Bodies, & the Origin and Frame of the World : in Eight Sermons Preached at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle ... in the First Year, MDCXCIIJ.H., 1699 - 280 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... Rest of the Earth , to evade the hard cenfure and usage , which Galileo had lately met with . For my own part , as I do not exclude this reason from being a grand occafion of Epicurus's owning a God ; fo I believe that He and Democritus ...
... Rest of the Earth , to evade the hard cenfure and usage , which Galileo had lately met with . For my own part , as I do not exclude this reason from being a grand occafion of Epicurus's owning a God ; fo I believe that He and Democritus ...
Pàgina 53
... must upon these terms be al- lowed to have Life and Understanding : fince there is nothing that we know of , in a state of abfolute Reft . Reft . Those things that feem to be at rest from the Faculties of the Soul . 53.
... must upon these terms be al- lowed to have Life and Understanding : fince there is nothing that we know of , in a state of abfolute Reft . Reft . Those things that feem to be at rest from the Faculties of the Soul . 53.
Pàgina 54
... rest upon : the furface of the Earth , are daily wheel'd about its Axis , and yearly about the Sun with a prodi gious swiftness . 4. But Fourthly , they will fay , ' tis not Motion in general , that can do these feats of Senfation and ...
... rest upon : the furface of the Earth , are daily wheel'd about its Axis , and yearly about the Sun with a prodi gious swiftness . 4. But Fourthly , they will fay , ' tis not Motion in general , that can do these feats of Senfation and ...
Pàgina 128
... rest of that process is no more surprizing , than the eruption of Horns in fome Brutes , or of Teeth and Beard in Men at certain periods of age . And as we have establish'd our affertion of the feminal production of all kinds of Animals ...
... rest of that process is no more surprizing , than the eruption of Horns in fome Brutes , or of Teeth and Beard in Men at certain periods of age . And as we have establish'd our affertion of the feminal production of all kinds of Animals ...
Pàgina 133
... rest of Mankind , as easily as delude thernselves , with a motion , That Chance can effect a thing ; it would be the most expedite and effectual means to make their Cause victorious over Vertue and Reli- gion . gion . For if you once ...
... rest of Mankind , as easily as delude thernselves , with a motion , That Chance can effect a thing ; it would be the most expedite and effectual means to make their Cause victorious over Vertue and Reli- gion . gion . For if you once ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism ...: In Eight Sermons Preached at ... Richard Bentley Visualització completa - 1693 |
The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism: Demonstrated from the Advantage ... Richard Bentley Visualització completa - 1693 |
The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism: Demonstrated from the Advantage ... Richard Bentley Visualització completa - 1699 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 237 - THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Pàgina 238 - God, Who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless He left not Himself without witness, in that He did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Pàgina 240 - ... that the soul of one virtuous and religious man is of greater worth and excellency than the sun and his planets, and all the stars in the world.
Pàgina 224 - Tis utterly inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter, without the mediation of some immaterial being, should operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; that distant bodies should act upon each other through a vacuum, without the intervention of something else, by and through which the action may be conveyed from one to the other.
Pàgina 241 - ... nor gives the sacrifice of praise and worship to the Author of its being. It remains, therefore, that all bodies were formed for the sake of intelligent minds : and as the earth was principally designed for the being and service and contemplation of men, why may not all other planets be created for the like uses, each for their own inhabitants which have life and understanding...
Pàgina 41 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art, and man's device.
Pàgina 138 - For chance is but a mere name, and really nothing in itself; a conception of our own minds, and only a compendious way of speaking, whereby we would express, that such effects as are commonly attributed to chance were verily produced by their true and proper causes, but without their designing to produce them.
Pàgina 225 - This would be a new and invincible argument for the being of God ; being a direct and positive proof that an immaterial living mind doth inform and actuate the dead matter, and support the frame of the world.
Pàgina 199 - We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, Who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Pàgina 35 - But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soulq.