The Religion of Nature Delineated..., 1750 - 413 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 196 - His freedom may be restrained, and he only accountable for those acts in respect of which he is free. "5. There possibly may be, and most probably are, beings invisible, and superior in nature to us, who may by other means be in many respects ministers of God's providence, and authors under Him of many events to particular men, without altering the laws of nature. For it implies no contradiction or...
الصفحة 195 - ... experienced some assistance and directions given to good men by the Deity ; that men have been many times infatuated, and lost to themselves, &c. If any one should object, that if men are thus overruled in their actings, then they are deprived of their liberty, &c.; the answer is, that though man is a free agent, he may not be free as to every thing. His freedom may be restrained, and he only accountable for those acts in respect of which he is free,
الصفحة 17 - Those propositions, which are true, and express things as they are, express the relation between the subject and the attribute as it is ; that is, this is either affirmed or denied of that according to the nature of that relation. And further, this relation (or, if you will, the nature of this relation) is determined and fixed by the natures of the things themselves.
الصفحة 188 - ... of nature. It is true this amounts to a prodigious scheme, in which all things to come are as it were comprehended under one view, estimated, and laid together; but when I consider what a mass of...
الصفحة 22 - Again, there are some ends, which the nature of things and truth require us to aim at, and at which therefore if we do not aim, nature and truth are denied. If a man does not desire to prevent evils, and to be happy, he denies both his own nature and the nature and definition of happiness to be what they are. And then further, willingly to neglect the means, leading to any such end, is the same as not to propose that end, and must fall under the same censure.
الصفحة 185 - But sure the nature of a thing is not changed by being known, or known beforehand ; for if it is known truly, it is known to be what it is ; and therefore is not altered by this. The truth is, God foresees, or rather sees the actions of free agents, because they will be; not that they will be, because He foresees them.
الصفحة 279 - Country to which he has no indubitable Right in Nature, or which, if he has a Right to it, he cannot tell how to get or keep without the Aid of the Laws and the Advantage of Society...
الصفحة 216 - that writer) the man is not known ever " the more to pofterity, becaufe his name " is tranfmitted to them : He doth not " live becaufe his name does. When it " is faid, Julius Casfar fobdued Gaul, con«c quered Pompey, &c. it is the fame thing tr as to fay, the conqueror of Pompey was " Julius Csefar, ie Caefar and the conf' queror of Pompey is the fame thing; " Caefar is as much known by one de
الصفحة 179 - Nature, if a good man be passing by an infirm building, just in the article of falling, can it be expected that God should suspend the force of gravitation till he is gone by, in order to his deliverance ; or can we think it would be increased...
الصفحة 17 - ... or permitted: and this is to take things as he gives them, to go into his constitution of the world, and to submit to his will, revealed in the books of nature.