The Analogy Or Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added Two Brief Dissertations: 1. Of Personal Identity. 2. Of the Nature of Virtue |
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... poffible Prefumption is of the nature of a Probability , appears from hence ; that fuch low Prefumption often repeated , will amount even to moral Certainty . Thus a Man's hav- ing obferved the Ebb and Flow of the Tide to Day , affords ...
... poffible Prefumption is of the nature of a Probability , appears from hence ; that fuch low Prefumption often repeated , will amount even to moral Certainty . Thus a Man's hav- ing obferved the Ebb and Flow of the Tide to Day , affords ...
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... poffible object of Knowledge , whether past , prefent , or future , can be pro- bable to an infinite Intelligence ; fince it can- not but be discerned abfolutely as it is in itself , The Story is told by Mr. Locke in the Chapter of ...
... poffible object of Knowledge , whether past , prefent , or future , can be pro- bable to an infinite Intelligence ; fince it can- not but be discerned abfolutely as it is in itself , The Story is told by Mr. Locke in the Chapter of ...
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... poffible : Yet we are far from being able to judge , what particular Difpofition of things would be moft friendly and affiftant to Vir- tue ; or what Means might be abfolutely ne- ceffary to produce the most Happiness in a Syftem of ...
... poffible : Yet we are far from being able to judge , what particular Difpofition of things would be moft friendly and affiftant to Vir- tue ; or what Means might be abfolutely ne- ceffary to produce the most Happiness in a Syftem of ...
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... poffible Evidence to all those to whom it is revealed ; but only to fuch a Part of Mankind , and with fuch particular Evidence as the Wisdom of God thought fit . The Design then of the follow- ing Treatise will be to fhew , that the ...
... poffible Evidence to all those to whom it is revealed ; but only to fuch a Part of Mankind , and with fuch particular Evidence as the Wisdom of God thought fit . The Design then of the follow- ing Treatise will be to fhew , that the ...
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... poffible to conceive any two States or Degrees of Life can be , Therefore , that we are to exist hereafter in a State as different ( suppose ) from our present , as this is from our former , is but according to the Analogy of Nature ...
... poffible to conceive any two States or Degrees of Life can be , Therefore , that we are to exist hereafter in a State as different ( suppose ) from our present , as this is from our former , is but according to the Analogy of Nature ...
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Page iv - ... absolute and formal obligation, in point of prudence and of interest, to act upon that presumption or low probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so.
Page 216 - ... like a city upon a hill, a standing memorial to the world of the duty which we owe our Maker; to call men continually, both by example and instruction, to attend to it, and by the form of religion ever before their eyes, remind them of the reality: to be the repository of the oracles of God; to hold up the light of revelation in aid to that of nature, and propagate it throughout all generations to the end of the world — the light of revelation considered here in no other view than as designed...
Page 183 - Indeed the natural and moral constitution and government of the world are so connected, as to make up together but one scheme : and it is highly probable, that the first is formed and carried on merely in subserviency to the latter; as the vegetable world is for the animal, and organized bodies for minds..
Page 47 - Now, in the present state, all which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our Nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences.
Page 453 - ... in general, there is in reality an universally acknowledged standard of it. It is that, which all ages and all countries have made profession of in public : it is that, which every man you meet, puts on the show of: it is that, which the primary and fundamental laws of all civil constitutions, over the face of the earth, make it their business and endeavour to enforce the practice of upon mankind : namely, justice, veracity, and regard to common good.
Page 119 - II. The constitution of human creatures, and indeed of all creatures which come under our notice, is such, as that they are capable of naturally becoming qualified for states of life, for which they were once wholly unqualified.
Page 306 - Whereas the doctrine of the gospel appears to be, not only that he taught the efficacy of repentance, but rendered it of the efficacy which it is by what he did and suffered for us; that he obtained for us the benefit of having our repentance accepted unto eternal life; not only that he revealed to sinners that they were in a capacity of salvation, and how they might obtain it, but moreover that he put them into this capacity of salvation by what he did and suffered for them; put us into a capacity...
Page 299 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 40 - know of ourselves, of our present life, and of death, death may immediately, in the natural course of things, put us into a higher and more enlarged state of life, as our birth does ;| a state in which our capacities and. sphere of perception, and of action, may be much greater than at present.