An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volume 1W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1758 - Fall of man |
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Page vii
... refpect , it is not by the Rational . It contemplates the Divine Economy in the Government of the Univerfe , Searches into the various Schemes of Providence , and takes in the whole Compafs of Nature . Neither is its Ufefulness inferior ...
... refpect , it is not by the Rational . It contemplates the Divine Economy in the Government of the Univerfe , Searches into the various Schemes of Providence , and takes in the whole Compafs of Nature . Neither is its Ufefulness inferior ...
Page xv
... refpect both of those perfections which it wants , and of those which others have . And this Defect , or as we may fay , Mixture of NON - ENTITY in the conftitution of created Beings is the neceffary Principle of all Natural Evils , and ...
... refpect both of those perfections which it wants , and of those which others have . And this Defect , or as we may fay , Mixture of NON - ENTITY in the conftitution of created Beings is the neceffary Principle of all Natural Evils , and ...
Page xxviii
... refpect to my Fellow - Creatures , the Will of God can be no farther concern'd about Virtue , than as it directs me in that Behaviour . The next Enquiry therefore is , what that Will of God in this particular is , or what it directs me ...
... refpect to my Fellow - Creatures , the Will of God can be no farther concern'd about Virtue , than as it directs me in that Behaviour . The next Enquiry therefore is , what that Will of God in this particular is , or what it directs me ...
Page xxix
... Refpect to our prefent En- quiry , fome have call'd their Fitness and Unfitness . ) For fome Things and Actions are apt to produce Pleasure , o- thers Pain ; fome are convenient , others inconvenient for a Society ; fome are for the ...
... Refpect to our prefent En- quiry , fome have call'd their Fitness and Unfitness . ) For fome Things and Actions are apt to produce Pleasure , o- thers Pain ; fome are convenient , others inconvenient for a Society ; fome are for the ...
Page xxxii
... refpect to his Happiness , not only on thefe , but also on rational Agents , Creatures like himself , which have the Power of governing or directing Good and Evil , and of acting for an End , there will arife different means of ...
... refpect to his Happiness , not only on thefe , but also on rational Agents , Creatures like himself , which have the Power of governing or directing Good and Evil , and of acting for an End , there will arife different means of ...
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Page 126 - The whole chasm in nature, from a plant to a man, is filled up with diverse kinds of creatures, rising one over another, by such a gentle and easy ascent, that the little transitions and deviations from one species to another are almost insensible.
Page 108 - ... to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.
Page 139 - Existence is a blessing to those beings only which are endowed with perception ; and is in a manner thrown away upon dead matter, any farther than as it is subservient to beings which are conscious of their existence.
Page 171 - Labour or exercise ferments the humours, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigour, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Page l - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 139 - On the other hand, if we look into the more bulky parts of nature, we see the seas, lakes, and rivers, teeming with numberless kinds of living creatures.
Page 126 - If the scale of being rises by such a regular progress so high as man, we may, by a parity of reason, suppose that it still proceeds gradually through those beings which are of a superior nature to him ; since there is an infinitely greater space and room for different degrees of perfection between the Supreme Being and man, than between man and the most despicable insect.
Page 125 - It is wonderful to observe, by what a gradual progress the world of life advances through a prodigious variety of species, before a creature is formed that is complete in all its senses; and even among these there is such a different degree of perfection...
Page 125 - Infinite goodness is of so communicative a nature, that it seems to delight in the conferring of existence upon every degree of perceptive being. As this is a speculation, which I have often pursued with great pleasure to myself, I shall enlarge farther upon it, by considering that part of the scale of beings which comes within our knowledge.
Page xxii - ... whenever this end is not perceived, they are to be accounted for from the association of ideas and may properly enough be called habits.