 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1755 - 698 pages
...philofophers were never able to prove clearly 0 and diftin&ly enough to perfons of all capa" cities the obligations of virtue, and the will " of God in matters of morality And that *' they were not able to frame to themfelves any " complete, and. regular, and confident fchcme... | |
 | John Leland - 1764 - 470 pages
...philofophers " were never able to prove dearly and diftinclly enough to " perfohs of all capacities the obligations of virtue, and the " will of God in matters of morality—And that they were " aot able to frame to themfclves any complete, and regular, " and confiflent... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Metaphysics - 1776 - 410 pages
...capacities, thole things which they were the moft fully certain of, and did in good meafure underftand ; fuch as the obligations of virtue, and the will of God,...morality. Now if it could be reconciled to common fenfe that they underftood not fully, but in good meafure only, fuch doctrines as they are faid in... | |
 | Richard Watson (bp. of Llandaff) - 1785 - 534 pages
...the philosophers were indeed the moft fullycertain of, .and did in good meafure underitaiid ; fuch as the obligations of virtue, and the will of God in matters of morality ; yet ihey шеге never able to prove and explain clearly and diftinftly * EÎ ¿' «2 olw AnîiuïiroL... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 536 pages
...which the philofophers were indeed the moft fully certain of, and did in good meafure underftand ; fuch as the obligations of virtue, and the will of God in matters of morality; yet •they were never able to prove and explain clearly and dijtinctly * Ei y aZ otbv aVcJ»i^«?a-tti... | |
 | John Leland, William Laurence Brown - Apologetics - 1798 - 590 pages
...philofophers were never able to prove " clearly and diftinftly enough to perfons of all capacities the " obligations of virtue, and the will of God in matters of mora" Hty — and that they were not ahle to frame to themfelves any " complete, and regular, and confiftent... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 pages
...revelation, both of which propositions are roundly advanced by divines, though manifestly false. Dr. Clarke says, in his Evidences of natural and revealed...wonder that they were unable to prove and explain them. But to pass this over, the reasons alleged to show their inability in this respect, or that they understood... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 546 pages
...revelation, both of which propositions are roundly advanced by divines, though manifestly false. Dr. Clarke says, in his Evidences of natural and revealed...wonder that they were unable to prove and explain them. But to pass this over, the reasons alleged to show their inability in this respect, or that they understood... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 550 pages
...revelation, both of which propositions are roundly advanced by divines, though manifestly false. Dr. Clarke says, in his Evidences of natural and revealed...wonder that they were unable to prove and explain them. But to pass this over, the reasons alleged to show their inability in this respect, or that they understood... | |
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... should, I do not believe that there ever was a time, when it could be said with truth that the law of nature was imperfectly known, or that it was an incomplete system of morality before the Christian revelation, both of which propositions are roundly... 