The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 |
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... immaterial . And in this sense substance was not ap- plied to God , but only essence , as St. Augustine ob- serves . " Your lordship here seems to dislike my taking notice , that the derivation of the word substance favours the idea we ...
... immaterial . And in this sense substance was not ap- plied to God , but only essence , as St. Augustine ob- serves . " Your lordship here seems to dislike my taking notice , that the derivation of the word substance favours the idea we ...
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... immaterial substance in us that thinks . Though I pre- sume , from what I have said about the supposition of a system of matter thinking ( which there demon- strates that God is immaterial ) will prove it in the highest degree probable ...
... immaterial substance in us that thinks . Though I pre- sume , from what I have said about the supposition of a system of matter thinking ( which there demon- strates that God is immaterial ) will prove it in the highest degree probable ...
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... immaterial , I crave leave to add , that immortality may and shall be annexed to that , which in its own nature is neither immaterial nor im- mortal , as the apostle expressly declares in these words ; " * for this corruptible must put ...
... immaterial , I crave leave to add , that immortality may and shall be annexed to that , which in its own nature is neither immaterial nor im- mortal , as the apostle expressly declares in these words ; " * for this corruptible must put ...
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... immaterial . Nor did the way of speaking in our Saviour's time vary from this St. Luke tells us , that when our Saviour , after his resurrection , stood in the midst of them , they were affrighted , and supposed that they had seen vua ...
... immaterial . Nor did the way of speaking in our Saviour's time vary from this St. Luke tells us , that when our Saviour , after his resurrection , stood in the midst of them , they were affrighted , and supposed that they had seen vua ...
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... immaterial substance . In that sense the scripture , I take it , speaks , when it says , " God is a spirit ; " and in that sense I have used it ; and in that sense I have proved from my principles , that there is a spiritual substance ...
... immaterial substance . In that sense the scripture , I take it , speaks , when it says , " God is a spirit ; " and in that sense I have used it ; and in that sense I have proved from my principles , that there is a spiritual substance ...
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Page 492 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 307 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 35 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 79 - Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Page 311 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 316 - And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain : 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 395 - If any one asks me what this solidity is? I send him to his senses to inform him : let him put a flint or a foot-ball between his hands, and then endeavour to join them, and he will know.
Page 53 - I judge it as certain and clear a truth as can any where be delivered, that "the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.
Page 337 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 14 - These, when we have taken a full survey of them and their several modes, combinations, and relations, we shall find to contain all our whole stock of ideas; and that we have nothing in our minds which did not come in one of these two ways.