Rural Philosophy: Or Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness; Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryLongman and Rees, 1804 - 383 من الصفحات |
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... Creator . For although it is true that God is some- times found of them who seek him not , it is only to those who diligently seek him , that a promise is made of finding him * . To the former it is commonly in vain that the heavens ...
... Creator . For although it is true that God is some- times found of them who seek him not , it is only to those who diligently seek him , that a promise is made of finding him * . To the former it is commonly in vain that the heavens ...
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... Creator of the universe , after all his inves- tigation , will remain to him , as to the Athenians of old , an unknown God , * Should the reader be disposed to enquire into the state of religious knowledge in the heathen world , he may ...
... Creator of the universe , after all his inves- tigation , will remain to him , as to the Athenians of old , an unknown God , * Should the reader be disposed to enquire into the state of religious knowledge in the heathen world , he may ...
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... Creator only , of the treatment we receive in the course of his providence ? Should he sug- gest as a solution of this difficulty , as he probably may , that it is for our trial , for the exercise and improvement of our virtue , and ...
... Creator only , of the treatment we receive in the course of his providence ? Should he sug- gest as a solution of this difficulty , as he probably may , that it is for our trial , for the exercise and improvement of our virtue , and ...
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... Creator , and which bears no relation to his vindictive justice and holy displeasure as an offended Go- vernor ? To reason thus , is not to do ho- nour to the goodness of God , or to justify his ways to man ; and it argues little dis ...
... Creator , and which bears no relation to his vindictive justice and holy displeasure as an offended Go- vernor ? To reason thus , is not to do ho- nour to the goodness of God , or to justify his ways to man ; and it argues little dis ...
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... can teach us , whatever we may thence collect concern- ing the relation he bears towards us as the Creator and Governor of the world , or of his propensity to mercy and reconcile- ment . He therefore SECT . I. ] On the Knowledge of God .
... can teach us , whatever we may thence collect concern- ing the relation he bears towards us as the Creator and Governor of the world , or of his propensity to mercy and reconcile- ment . He therefore SECT . I. ] On the Knowledge of God .
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