| Matthew Tindal - Christianity - 1730 - 470 pages
...Fellow-Creatures, anfwer the End of their Creation. w And, be fays, that inP*& *6. u Matters of Natural Reafon and Morality, that which is ** holy and good is not therefore holy and good, becaufc it f* is commanded to be done $ but it is therefore com*c manded by God, becaufe it is holy... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Metaphysics - 1777 - 392 pages
...it is feen, but it . " is, therefore, feen becaufe it is vifible : fo in " matters of natural reafon and morality, that " which is holy and good, is not therefore holy " and good becaufe it is commanded to be done, " but it is therefore commanded by God be" caufe it is holy and... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 522 pages
...each, made the properties of each. It is one and the same act; and to say that the nature of any thing, or the truths resulting from it, are independent,...and good is not therefore holy " and good, because il is commanded to be done, " but it is therefore commanded by God, because " it is holy and good."... | |
| Samuel Clarke - God - 1823 - 478 pages
...possit quicquam in contrarium constitucre posse — Cumberland de Legib. Natures, p PROP. For example ;* as, in matters of sense, the reason *' why a thing...natural reason and morality, that which is holy and good (as creatures depending upon and worshiping God, and practising justice and equity in their dealings... | |
| Robert Blakey - Free will and determinism - 1831 - 240 pages
...original from arbitrary and positive constitution, but are of eternal necessity in their own nature. As in matters of sense, the reason why a thing is...holy and good because it is commanded to be done, but is therefore commanded of God because it is holy and good. The existence indeed of the things themselves... | |
| Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 402 pages
...original from arbitrary and positive constitution, but are of eternal necessity in their own nature. As in matters of sense, the reason why a thing is...holy and good because it is commanded to be done, but is therefore commanded of God because it is holy and good. The existence, indeed, of the things themselves... | |
| Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 408 pages
...original from arbitrary and positive constitution, but are of eternal necessity in their own nature. As in matters of sense, the reason why a thing is...it is visible : so in matters of natural reason and mo* rality, that which is holy and good is not therefore holy and good because it is commanded to be... | |
| 1840 - 456 pages
...unalterable respects or relations of things, which.. .. are of eternal necessity in their own nature.... that which is holy and good is not therefore holy and good becanse 'tis commanded to he done, but is therefore commanded of God becanse 'tis holy and good. —... | |
| Johann Eduard Erdmann - Philosophy, Modern - 1840 - 476 pages
...unalterable respects or relations of things, which.... are of eternal necessity in their own nature.... that which is holy and good is not therefore holy and good because 'tis commanded to be done, but is therefore commanded of God because 'tis holy and good. — The existence... | |
| Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - Ethics - 1897 - 456 pages
...Rome against Rapes, at that time when Tarquin because 'tis Seen, but 'tis therefore Seen, because 'tis visible, so in Matters of natural Reason and morality, that which is Holy and Good (as Creatures depending upon and worshipping God, and practising Justice and Equity in their dealings... | |
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