The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation: In Two Parts. Viz. The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals (beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Insects), More Particularly in the Body of the Earth, Its Figure, Motion, and Consistency, and in the Admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man and Other Animals, as Also in Their Generation, &c. : with Answers to Some Objections |
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... Matter of Fact or Experiment but what is undoubtedly true , left I should build upon a fandy and ruinous Foundation ; and by the Admix- ture of what is false , render that which is true fuf- picious . I might have added many more ...
... Matter of Fact or Experiment but what is undoubtedly true , left I should build upon a fandy and ruinous Foundation ; and by the Admix- ture of what is false , render that which is true fuf- picious . I might have added many more ...
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... Matter of this Dif courfe , and the reafon I had to make choice of it , be- fides what I have already offer'd . First , The Belief of a Deity being the Foundation of all Religion ( Religion being nothing but a devout worshipping of God ...
... Matter of this Dif courfe , and the reafon I had to make choice of it , be- fides what I have already offer'd . First , The Belief of a Deity being the Foundation of all Religion ( Religion being nothing but a devout worshipping of God ...
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... Matter or Subject of praifing him ; and therefore Men and Angels are called upon to confider thofe great Effects of the divine Power , Wisdom and Goodness , and to give God the Praise and Glory due to him for them , p . 178 , 179 , 180 ...
... Matter or Subject of praifing him ; and therefore Men and Angels are called upon to confider thofe great Effects of the divine Power , Wisdom and Goodness , and to give God the Praise and Glory due to him for them , p . 178 , 179 , 180 ...
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... Matter , or Body ; both of infinite Duration and Extenfion . In this infinite . Space , or Vacuity , which hath neither Beginning , nor End , nor Middle , no Limits , or Extreams , in- numerable minute Bodies , into which the Mat- ter ...
... Matter , or Body ; both of infinite Duration and Extenfion . In this infinite . Space , or Vacuity , which hath neither Beginning , nor End , nor Middle , no Limits , or Extreams , in- numerable minute Bodies , into which the Mat- ter ...
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... Matter , of various but a determinate Ñum- ber of Figures , and equally ponderous , do per- pendicularly defcend , and by their fortuitous Concourfe make compound Bodies , and at last the World itself . But now , because if all these ...
... Matter , of various but a determinate Ñum- ber of Figures , and equally ponderous , do per- pendicularly defcend , and by their fortuitous Concourfe make compound Bodies , and at last the World itself . But now , because if all these ...
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Page 399 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able.
Page 388 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 1 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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