The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 5 |
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Page 328 - There is one God, the king and father of all things, and many gods, sons of God, ruling together with him. This the Greek says, and the barbarian says, the inhabitant of the continent, and he...
Page 59 - As in matters of sense, the reason why a thing is visible is not because it is seen, but it is therefore seen because it is visible : so in matters of natural reason and morality, that which is holy and good...
Page 370 - ... in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, and to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years.
Page 358 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that 1 go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God...
Page 164 - ... of his physical and moral nature and attributes, if they may be considered separately, as we are apt to consider them, and if the latter and every thing we ascribe to these, are not to be resolved rather into the former, into his infinite intelligence, wisdom, and power: all this knowledge, I say, is derived from his works, and from the tenor of that providence, by which he governs them. We see him in a reflected, not in a direct light. But, because we cannot frame full and adequate ideas of...
Page 35 - ... Being, than the imagination that he undoes by his power in particular cases what his wisdom, to whom nothing is future, once thought sufficient to be established for all cases. The effects therefore that are assumed of particular providences are either false, or they are undistinguishable from those of a general providence, and become particular by nothing more than the application, which vain superstition or pious fraud makes of them.
Page 192 - If the things contained in any such revelation be above reason, that is, incomprehensible, I do not say in their manner of being, for that alone would not make them liable to this objection, but in themselves, and according to the terms wherein they are communicated; there is no criterion left by which to judge whether they are agreeable, or repugnant to the religion of nature and of reason. They are not, therefore, to be received: and he who insists that they should be received independently of...
Page 126 - I should have no difficulty which to choose, if the option was proposed to me, to exist after death, or to die whole, as it has been called. Be there two worlds, or be there twenty, the same God is the God of all, and wherever we are, we are equally in his power. Far from fearing my Creator, that all-perfect Being whom I adore, I should fear to be no longer his creature.
Page 124 - Virtue, to borrow the Christian allusion, is militant here, and various untoward accidents contribute to its being often overborne ; but it may combat with greater advantage hereafter, and prevail completely, and enjoy its consequent rewards, in some future states.