| 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...stated, fixed, or settled," he says "our notion of what is natural will be enlarged, in proportion to the greater knowledge of the works of God and the dispensations of His providence. Nor is there any absurdity in supposing that there may be beings in the universe, whose capacities and knowledge, and... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...is natural as much reqmres, and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, :-. e. to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural...miraculous does to effect it for once. And from hence it rr.us). follow, that persons' notion of what is natural will be enlarged, in proportion to their greater... | |
| United Church journal - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...only real meaning of the word is "fixed, or settled," and hence fairly infers, that " persons' notions of what is natural will be enlarged in proportion...of God, and the dispensations of His Providence." "Nature" carries in it the idea of fixedness because God is the author. It is contrasted with the transitoriuess,... | |
| 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...what is natural as much requires, and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural...miraculous does to effect it for once. And from hence it rr.us), follow, that persons' notion of what is natural will be enlarged, in proportion to their greater... | |
| Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...fupernatural or miraculous does to effedr. it for once. And from hence it muft follow, that perfons' notion of what is natural, will be enlarged in proportion...their greater knowledge of the works of God, and the difpenfations of his providence. Nor is there anyabfurdity in fuppofmg, that there may be beings in... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an Intelligent Agent to render it so, ic, to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural...effect it for once. And from hence it must follow, that our notion of what is natural will be enlarged in proportion to our greater knowledge of the works... | |
| Sara S. Hennell - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...what is natural, as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually or at stated times ; as what is supernatural...dispensations of his Providence. Nor is there any absurdity in supposing, that there may be beings in the universe, whose capacities, and knowledge,... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 786
...is fixed as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so — i'.«., to effect it continually, or at stated times — as what is...supernatural, or miraculous, does to effect it for once." But the defect of Mr. Darwin's theory, •which it has in common with all systems of materialism, is,... | |
| 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 982
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent mind to render it so, ie, to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once." AG ART. XVI. — Forces ; by THEODORE LYMAN. THE first article in this Journal for November last* brings... | |
| William Fleming - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 710
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it BO, that is, to affect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."* Natural, as distinguished from Innate or Instinctive. '• There is a great deal of difference," said... | |
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