Infidels logically silenced: or, Infidels easily brought to the threshold of Christianity by a logical necessity; or, Nature, deism and the God of the Bible |
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according to infidel amid antecedent argument Atheism author of nature believe that nature better Bible God blame nature blessing blind fatalism bodily eye cause and effect cause of nature Christ clearly seen CONSTRUCTED ON POWER creation creature DEISM Deists Deity develops and organizes direct proof divine duction EDGWARE ROAD Essay essence eternal series everything everywhere evidence exists but nature experience explanation or hope getting crazy Godhead Gospel grace Holy hope of remedy human mind INFIDELS LOGICALLY SILENCED invisible lost in trying low and vitiated mankind materialists McCOSH nature always existed nature exists nature so develop nature so organize non-Bible non-Bible god omnipotence omniscient organizations and develop Pantheist perience permit or cause philosophers production of nature profess Christianity profess to believe PROPOSITION:-TO BELIEVE prove quality of matter reason religion retired into space revelation Saviour Secularist self-existent or eternal series of causes spirit suppose Supreme things truth understanding wise wrong
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Page 3 - The flame of genius to the human breast, And love and beauty, and poetic joy And inspiration. Ere the radiant sun Sprang from the east, or 'mid the vault of night The moon suspended her serener lamp; Ere mountains, woods, or streams adorn'd the globe, Or Wisdom taught the sons of men her lore; Then lived the Almighty One...
Page 11 - ... be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear.
Page 35 - that the things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear.
Page 42 - Things that have nothing in common with each other cannot be understood by means of each other— that is, the conception of one, does not involve the conception of the other.
Page 34 - ... in changes, and is not always in the same condition), has attributed eternity to that which is invisible and discerned only by our intellect as a kinsman and a brother, while of that which is the object of our external senses he had predicated generation as an appropriate description. Since, then, this world is visible and the object of our external senses, it follows of necessity that it must have been created ; on which account it was not without a wise purpose that he recorded its creation,...
Page 34 - ... truth of this belief that if no such belief had existed, the persons who now controvert it would have been the persons who would have produced and propagated it; because by beginning to reason they would have been led to reason progressively to the end, and thereby have discovered that matter and the properties it has will not account for the system of the universe, and that there must necessarily be a superior cause.
Page 42 - God breathed into Adam the breath of life and Adam became a living soul. (The "breath
Page 34 - ... or regulator, or judge, by whom everything must be managed and governed. But the great Moses, thinking that a thing which has not been uncreated is as alien as possible from that which is visible before our eyes (for everything which is the subject of our senses exists in birth and in changes, and is not always in the same condition), has attributed eternity to that which is invisible and discerned only by our intellect as a kinsman and a brother, while of that which is the object of our external...
Page 44 - ... call evil good, and good evil ; put light for darkness, and darkness for light...
Page 37 - Every being must either exist of itself, or not of itself; that which exists not of itself, must derive its subsistence from some other, and so be dependent: but the being mentioned above, is independent and uncaused.