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... our understandings are too weak to discover all the secrets and powers in
nature . The mysteries in nature must of course bear a proportion to that measure
of understanding which every creature possesses for the contemplation of of it .
... our understandings are too weak to discover all the secrets and powers in
nature . The mysteries in nature must of course bear a proportion to that measure
of understanding which every creature possesses for the contemplation of of it .
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If the understanding is weak , nature is more mysterious : if it is strong , nature is
less mysterious . But then , what has this to do with divine prescriptions , which in
the very nature of the thing ought to be plain and clear ? Is it to be supposed that
...
If the understanding is weak , nature is more mysterious : if it is strong , nature is
less mysterious . But then , what has this to do with divine prescriptions , which in
the very nature of the thing ought to be plain and clear ? Is it to be supposed that
...
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that are mysterious to the patient may have their proper influence upon the body ,
because they operate independent of the understanding and will of the patient ;
yet with moral prefcriptions the case is otherwise , because if such prescriptions ...
that are mysterious to the patient may have their proper influence upon the body ,
because they operate independent of the understanding and will of the patient ;
yet with moral prefcriptions the case is otherwise , because if such prescriptions ...
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... it is only contending for such absolute fovereignty in the Deity , as , I prefume ,
no man of understanding ever denied that he might exercise , when the
circumstances of things rendered it proper that he should , which is the present
case : I am ...
... it is only contending for such absolute fovereignty in the Deity , as , I prefume ,
no man of understanding ever denied that he might exercise , when the
circumstances of things rendered it proper that he should , which is the present
case : I am ...
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There is nothing so plain and evident but what artful men may find out ways to
darken and perplex ; and , tho ' this may take with the weak and inattentive , yet
men of understanding can see through such disguises , and therefore , to their ...
There is nothing so plain and evident but what artful men may find out ways to
darken and perplex ; and , tho ' this may take with the weak and inattentive , yet
men of understanding can see through such disguises , and therefore , to their ...
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Page 108 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them ; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams : for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Page 124 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page iii - Reason affords plain, obvious, certain Principles, by which a man may distinguish these, and form a proper judgment in the case; and which an honest upright Man may safely and securely stay his Mind upon, amidst the various and contrary Opinions that prevail...
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Page 126 - Verily I say unto you, In as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Page 95 - Relations continue unaltered. If our firft Parent was the Creature of God, fo are we ; and whatever Service and Duty he owed, in Virtue of this Dependance, the fame is due from us ; nor can this Relation be ever made the Ground of different Duties in his Cafe, and...
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Page 94 - ... was a republication of the law of nature, and its precepts declarative of that original religion which was as old as the creation.
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| Title | An Enquiry Into the Ground and Foundation of Religion: Wherein is Shewn, that Religion is Founded in Nature |
| Author | Thomas Chubb |
| Publisher | Tho. Cox, 1740 |
| Length | 157 pages |
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