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, MDCXCII |
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... Persons may for a season eclipse this na- tive Light of the Soul ; but can never fo wholly fmother and extinguish it , but that at some lucid intervals it will recover it self again , and shine forth to the conviction of their ...
... Persons may for a season eclipse this na- tive Light of the Soul ; but can never fo wholly fmother and extinguish it , but that at some lucid intervals it will recover it self again , and shine forth to the conviction of their ...
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... Person that had a fair Eftate in reversion , which in all probability he would speedily be pos sess'd of , and of which he might reasonably pro- mise to himself a long and happy Enjoyment , should be assured by some skilfull Physician ...
... Person that had a fair Eftate in reversion , which in all probability he would speedily be pos sess'd of , and of which he might reasonably pro- mise to himself a long and happy Enjoyment , should be assured by some skilfull Physician ...
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... persons make a Diagram of thefe cogita- tive Lines and Angles ; and demonftrate their Pro- perties of Perception and Appetite , as plainly as we know the other properties of Triangles and Circles ? But how little can any Motion , either ...
... persons make a Diagram of thefe cogita- tive Lines and Angles ; and demonftrate their Pro- perties of Perception and Appetite , as plainly as we know the other properties of Triangles and Circles ? But how little can any Motion , either ...
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... persons for being elaborately trifling . For with refpect to the most of Mankind , fuch wretched absurdities are more wifely contemn'd than confu- ted ; and to give them a serious answer , may only make them look more confiderable ...
... persons for being elaborately trifling . For with refpect to the most of Mankind , fuch wretched absurdities are more wifely contemn'd than confu- ted ; and to give them a serious answer , may only make them look more confiderable ...
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... persons in his own Country , but ve ry few that were rightly difpofed for a fupernatural Ćure . St. Mark hath a very obfervable Expreffion upon the fame occafion : And he COULD do no migh- Mark 6. 5 . ty work there , fave that he laid ...
... persons in his own Country , but ve ry few that were rightly difpofed for a fupernatural Ćure . St. Mark hath a very obfervable Expreffion upon the fame occafion : And he COULD do no migh- Mark 6. 5 . ty work there , fave that he laid ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 35 - But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soulq.