An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Band 1W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1758 |
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... creating Beings at all , and then pursues that Intent through the feveral Works of his Creation : it fhews how this is fully answered at prefent by the Inanimate and Brute Part , and how it might and fhould be , and why , and in what ...
... creating Beings at all , and then pursues that Intent through the feveral Works of his Creation : it fhews how this is fully answered at prefent by the Inanimate and Brute Part , and how it might and fhould be , and why , and in what ...
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... Creation : in short , that happens to think at all upon these things , and to think for himself . And therefore an Endeavour to rid the Mind of fome of thefe Perplexities , can- not fure be unacceptable , and a Solution of any one of ...
... Creation : in short , that happens to think at all upon these things , and to think for himself . And therefore an Endeavour to rid the Mind of fome of thefe Perplexities , can- not fure be unacceptable , and a Solution of any one of ...
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... created Beings could be abfolutely perfect , and in the next , that no manner of Evil , or Imperfection was ... Creation of fuch Beings in fuch Circumftances , together with their comcomitant Evils , as there there was for any Creation ...
... created Beings could be abfolutely perfect , and in the next , that no manner of Evil , or Imperfection was ... Creation of fuch Beings in fuch Circumftances , together with their comcomitant Evils , as there there was for any Creation ...
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William King Edmund Law. there was for any Creation at all ; For which the fole Reafon will appear to be an Intention in the Creator of communicating Happiness to as many Beings as could be made capable of it , on the very best Terms ...
William King Edmund Law. there was for any Creation at all ; For which the fole Reafon will appear to be an Intention in the Creator of communicating Happiness to as many Beings as could be made capable of it , on the very best Terms ...
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... created Being confifts of Existence and Non - Exiftence ; for it is nothing in refpect both of those perfections which it wants , and of those which others have . And this Defect , or as we may fay , Mixture of NON - ENTITY in the ...
... created Being confifts of Existence and Non - Exiftence ; for it is nothing in refpect both of those perfections which it wants , and of those which others have . And this Defect , or as we may fay , Mixture of NON - ENTITY in the ...
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Seite 126 - The whole chasm in nature, from a plant to a man, is filled up with diverse kinds of creatures, rising one over another, by such a gentle and easy ascent, that the little transitions and deviations from one species to another are almost insensible.
Seite 108 - ... to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.
Seite 139 - Existence is a blessing to those beings only which are endowed with perception ; and is in a manner thrown away upon dead matter, any farther than as it is subservient to beings which are conscious of their existence.
Seite 171 - Labour or exercise ferments the humours, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigour, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Seite l - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Seite 139 - On the other hand, if we look into the more bulky parts of nature, we see the seas, lakes, and rivers, teeming with numberless kinds of living creatures.
Seite 126 - If the scale of being rises by such a regular progress so high as man, we may, by a parity of reason, suppose that it still proceeds gradually through those beings which are of a superior nature to him ; since there is an infinitely greater space and room for different degrees of perfection between the Supreme Being and man, than between man and the most despicable insect.
Seite 125 - It is wonderful to observe, by what a gradual progress the world of life advances through a prodigious variety of species, before a creature is formed that is complete in all its senses; and even among these there is such a different degree of perfection...
Seite 125 - Infinite goodness is of so communicative a nature, that it seems to delight in the conferring of existence upon every degree of perceptive being. As this is a speculation, which I have often pursued with great pleasure to myself, I shall enlarge farther upon it, by considering that part of the scale of beings which comes within our knowledge.
Seite xxii - ... whenever this end is not perceived, they are to be accounted for from the association of ideas and may properly enough be called habits.