The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism: Demonstrated from the Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, the Faculties of Human 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, Esquire, in the First Year MDCXCII |
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... necessary to Civil Obedience . Why then doft thou endeavour to undermine this foundation , to undo this Cement of Society , and to reduce all once again to thy imaginary State of Na- ture and Original Confufion ? No Community ever was ...
... necessary to Civil Obedience . Why then doft thou endeavour to undermine this foundation , to undo this Cement of Society , and to reduce all once again to thy imaginary State of Na- ture and Original Confufion ? No Community ever was ...
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... necessary for their own nourishment and increase of their Kinds : fo that this boast- ed Ufefulness of Parts , which makes Men at- tribute their Origination to an intelligent and wife Agent , is really no argument at all : be- cause it ...
... necessary for their own nourishment and increase of their Kinds : fo that this boast- ed Ufefulness of Parts , which makes Men at- tribute their Origination to an intelligent and wife Agent , is really no argument at all : be- cause it ...
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... necessary Existence included in their Effence . Now can I believe , that my fpiritual Soul , that understands and judges and invents , & c . hath notwithstanding a depen- dent and precarious Being ; while the Particles of this dead Ink ...
... necessary Existence included in their Effence . Now can I believe , that my fpiritual Soul , that understands and judges and invents , & c . hath notwithstanding a depen- dent and precarious Being ; while the Particles of this dead Ink ...
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... we would bring them to ) they must still leave their Atoms to their mechanical Affections ; not able to make one step toward the pro- duction duction of a World beyond the necessary Laws of Motion Origin and Frame of the World . 5.
... we would bring them to ) they must still leave their Atoms to their mechanical Affections ; not able to make one step toward the pro- duction duction of a World beyond the necessary Laws of Motion Origin and Frame of the World . 5.
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... necessary Laws of Motion . It is plain then , that Fortune , as to the matter before us , is but a fynony- mous word with Nature and Neceffity . It remains that we examin the adequate mean- Serm . V. ing of Chance ; which properly ...
... necessary Laws of Motion . It is plain then , that Fortune , as to the matter before us , is but a fynony- mous word with Nature and Neceffity . It remains that we examin the adequate mean- Serm . V. ing of Chance ; which properly ...
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