The Analogy Or Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added Two Brief Dissertations: 1. Of Personal Identity. 2. Of the Nature of VirtueRobert Horsfield, 1765 - Всего страниц: 467 |
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... Means might be abfolutely ne- ceffary to produce the most Happiness in a Syftem of fuch Extent as our own World may be , taking in all that is paft and to come , though we should fuppofe it detached from the Whole of things . Indeed we ...
... Means might be abfolutely ne- ceffary to produce the most Happiness in a Syftem of fuch Extent as our own World may be , taking in all that is paft and to come , though we should fuppofe it detached from the Whole of things . Indeed we ...
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... Means of accomplish- ing this End . 1 Let us then , instead of that idle and not very innocent Employment of forming ima- ginary Models of a World , and Schemes of governing it , turn our Thoughts to what we experience to be the Conduct ...
... Means of accomplish- ing this End . 1 Let us then , instead of that idle and not very innocent Employment of forming ima- ginary Models of a World , and Schemes of governing it , turn our Thoughts to what we experience to be the Conduct ...
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... and in Maturity ; the Change of Worms into Flies , and the vast Enlarge- ment of their locomotive Powers by fuch Change and Birds and Infects bursting the 2 Shell Shell their Habitation , and by this means en- CHAP 18 Of a Future Life .
... and in Maturity ; the Change of Worms into Flies , and the vast Enlarge- ment of their locomotive Powers by fuch Change and Birds and Infects bursting the 2 Shell Shell their Habitation , and by this means en- CHAP 18 Of a Future Life .
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... means en- CHAP . tring into a new World , furnished with new I. Accommodations for them , and finding a new Sphere of Action affigned them ; these are Inftances of this general Law of Nature . Thus all the various and wonderful Transfor ...
... means en- CHAP . tring into a new World , furnished with new I. Accommodations for them , and finding a new Sphere of Action affigned them ; these are Inftances of this general Law of Nature . Thus all the various and wonderful Transfor ...
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... Means and Inftruments by which it is capable of its prefent Life , of its prefent State of Perception and of Action , It is here used in the former Senfe . When it is used in the latter , the Epithet prefent is added . The Lofs of a ...
... Means and Inftruments by which it is capable of its prefent Life , of its prefent State of Perception and of Action , It is here used in the former Senfe . When it is used in the latter , the Epithet prefent is added . The Lofs of a ...
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abfolutely Actions alfo alſo Analogy of Nature Anſwer appear arifes Author of Nature becauſe Cafe cerning CHAP Chrift Chriſtianity Circumftances Confequences Confideration confidered confifts Courfe Courſe of Nature Courſe of Things Creatures credible Defign deftroy Deftruction Degree Difpenfation diftinct diftinctly Evidence Exerciſe faid fame farther feems felves fhall fhew fhewn fhould fince firſt fome fomewhat fuch fufficient fuppofed Goodneſs greateſt Happineſs Hiftory himſelf Inftances Intereft itſelf judge juft Juftice juſt leaſt lefs ligion Mankind Manner Matter Means ment Mifery Miracles moft moral Government moſt muft muſt natural Religion neceffary Neceffity neral Obfervations Objections againſt Occafions ourſelves Paffion particular Perfons poffible pofitive Power prefent Prefumption Principle Proof Purpoſe Queſtion racter raiſed Reaſon Refpects regard Revelation Rewards and Puniſhments Scheme Scripture ſeems Senfe Senſe ſhall ſpeak ſuch Suppofition ſuppoſed Syftem thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion Truth tural ture Underſtanding univerfal uſe Vice Virtue whole World
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Стр. iv - ... absolute and formal obligation, in point of prudence and of interest, to act upon that presumption or low probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so.
Стр. 216 - ... like a city upon a hill, a standing memorial to the world of the duty which we owe our Maker; to call men continually, both by example and instruction, to attend to it, and by the form of religion ever before their eyes, remind them of the reality: to be the repository of the oracles of God; to hold up the light of revelation in aid to that of nature, and propagate it throughout all generations to the end of the world — the light of revelation considered here in no other view than as designed...
Стр. 183 - Indeed the natural and moral constitution and government of the world are so connected, as to make up together but one scheme : and it is highly probable, that the first is formed and carried on merely in subserviency to the latter; as the vegetable world is for the animal, and organized bodies for minds..
Стр. 47 - Now, in the present state, all which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our Nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences.
Стр. 453 - ... in general, there is in reality an universally acknowledged standard of it. It is that, which all ages and all countries have made profession of in public : it is that, which every man you meet, puts on the show of: it is that, which the primary and fundamental laws of all civil constitutions, over the face of the earth, make it their business and endeavour to enforce the practice of upon mankind : namely, justice, veracity, and regard to common good.
Стр. 119 - II. The constitution of human creatures, and indeed of all creatures which come under our notice, is such, as that they are capable of naturally becoming qualified for states of life, for which they were once wholly unqualified.
Стр. 306 - Whereas the doctrine of the gospel appears to be, not only that he taught the efficacy of repentance, but rendered it of the efficacy which it is by what he did and suffered for us; that he obtained for us the benefit of having our repentance accepted unto eternal life; not only that he revealed to sinners that they were in a capacity of salvation, and how they might obtain it, but moreover that he put them into this capacity of salvation by what he did and suffered for them; put us into a capacity...
Стр. 299 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Стр. 40 - know of ourselves, of our present life, and of death, death may immediately, in the natural course of things, put us into a higher and more enlarged state of life, as our birth does ;| a state in which our capacities and. sphere of perception, and of action, may be much greater than at present.