On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature, to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of ManCarey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833 - 308 páginas |
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actual affirm anger animal antitheism appetite argument ascer astronomy authority awaken beautiful beneficial benevolence Bishop Butler bosom cause character collocations compassion connexion conscience Deity demonstration desire distinct divine Dugald Stewart economy emotion enjoyment evidence evil existence external nature faculty felt force former Godhead gratification hand happiness heart human imagination important inflicted instance intellectual jurisprudence justice labour least lence lessons man's material matter mechanism ment mental constitution mind moral character moral constitution moral nature Natural Philosophy natural theology nature's ness object observation operation original pain palpable passion peculiar phenomena philosophy physical pleasure possessory feeling present principle question racter reason regard respect righteousness sensations sense sensible Sir James Mackintosh society special affections species spect spirit strength suffering taste theism things Thomas Brown THOMAS CHALMERS thought tion truth universal violence virtue virtuous volition wherewith whole wisdom
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Página 287 - ... would be overpowered. If he does not know absolutely every agent in the universe, the one that he does not know may be God. If he is not himself the chief agent in the universe, and does not know what is so, that which is so may be God. If he is not in absolute possession of all the propositions that constitute universal truth, the one which he wants may be, that there is a God. If he cannot with certainty Assign the cause of all that he perceives to exist, that cause may be a God.
Página 48 - ... you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself: and, to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength, as it had right: had it power, as it had manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world.
Página 26 - For it became him who created them to set them in order. And if he did so, it's unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature; though being once form'd, it may continue by those Laws for many Ages.
Página 60 - ... nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit, unusque erit communis quasi magister et imperator omnium deus, ille legis huius inventor, disceptator, lator; cui qui non parebit, ipse se fugiet ac naturam hominis aspernatus hoc ipso luet maximas poenas, etiamsi cetera supplicia, quae putantur, effugerit...
Página 60 - Est quidem vera lex, recta ratio, naturae congruens, diffusa in omnes, constans, sempiterna, quse vocet ad officium jubendo, vetando a fraude deterreat ; quse tamen neque probos frustra jubet aut vetat, nee improbos jubendo aut vetando movet. Huic legi nee obrogari fas est, neque derogari ex hac aliquid licet, neque tota abrogari potest. Nee vero, aut per senatum aut per populum solvi hac lege possumus.
Página 60 - Neque est quaerendus explanator aut interpres ejus alius: nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes, et omni tempore una Lex, et sempiterna, et immortalis continebit; unusque erit communis quasi magister, et imperator omnium DEUS. Ille legis hujus inventor, disceptator, lator: cui qui non parebit, ipse se fugiet, ac naturam hominis aspernabitur: hocque ipso luet maximas poenas, etiam si caetera supplicia, quae putantur effugerit.— CICERO, Fragm.
Página i - BRIDGEWATER TREATISES, on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.
Página 268 - an act of the mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in or withholding it from any particular action.
Página vii - Testator further directed, that the person or persons selected by the said President should be appointed to write, print, and publish, one thousand copies of a work On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating suck work by all reasonable arguments — as.