An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volume 2By J. Stephens, for W. Thurlbourn, Cambridge, and sold by J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, and W. Innys, 1732 - Fall of man |
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Page 292
... arise from the exigence of our Nature , as God has now framed it . And from hence they infer that God is as free to make his fecond Choice , as we conceive him to be in making his first . But to all this I answer , 1ft , I acknowledge ...
... arise from the exigence of our Nature , as God has now framed it . And from hence they infer that God is as free to make his fecond Choice , as we conceive him to be in making his first . But to all this I answer , 1ft , I acknowledge ...
Page 355
... arise from a arifes due ufe of those Faculties and Powers which every from the one enjoys ; and fince this Power of determining . proper ourfelves to Actions , and pleafing ourselves in culties , them , is the most perfect of all ...
... arise from a arifes due ufe of those Faculties and Powers which every from the one enjoys ; and fince this Power of determining . proper ourfelves to Actions , and pleafing ourselves in culties , them , is the most perfect of all ...
Page 481
... arise from it . Rea- like a Min fon therefore ought to be compared to Life , and his Son natural Evils to the Distemper . If then God were for fear he to take away Reason left Men fhould use it amifs , fhould be he would be like a Man ...
... arise from it . Rea- like a Min fon therefore ought to be compared to Life , and his Son natural Evils to the Distemper . If then God were for fear he to take away Reason left Men fhould use it amifs , fhould be he would be like a Man ...
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