Half-hours with the freethinkers, ed. by J. Watts, 'Iconoclast', and A. CollinsJohn Watts 1857 |
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Strana 10
... divine laws , that is to say , laws immutable and eternal , have risen from the complexion of times , of places , and of persons ; that these codes issue one from another in a kind 10 HALF - HOURS WITH THE FREETHINKERS .
... divine laws , that is to say , laws immutable and eternal , have risen from the complexion of times , of places , and of persons ; that these codes issue one from another in a kind 10 HALF - HOURS WITH THE FREETHINKERS .
Strana 15
... divine justice was supposed to correct the vices and errors of this transitory state . A spiritual and mystical system , such as I have men- tioned , acquired so much the more credit as it applied itself to the mind by every argument ...
... divine justice was supposed to correct the vices and errors of this transitory state . A spiritual and mystical system , such as I have men- tioned , acquired so much the more credit as it applied itself to the mind by every argument ...
Strana 38
... Divine faith , about which so much has been written , is evidently nothing more than incredulity brought under subjection ; for we certainly have no other faculty than the understanding by which we can believe ; and the objects of faith ...
... Divine faith , about which so much has been written , is evidently nothing more than incredulity brought under subjection ; for we certainly have no other faculty than the understanding by which we can believe ; and the objects of faith ...
Strana 43
... Divine . ' Of course it is only to be expected that such will be the opinion of an opponent - but it is further proof of Collins's ability and character . In 1703 appeared his celebrated ' Discourses of Freethinking , which perhaps ...
... Divine . ' Of course it is only to be expected that such will be the opinion of an opponent - but it is further proof of Collins's ability and character . In 1703 appeared his celebrated ' Discourses of Freethinking , which perhaps ...
Strana 45
... divine prescience . ( 4 ) From the nature and use of rewards and punishments . ( 5 ) From the nature of morality . Such were the principles on which the great question of Necessity has been advocated from Hobbes to Collins , Jonathan ...
... divine prescience . ( 4 ) From the nature and use of rewards and punishments . ( 5 ) From the nature of morality . Such were the principles on which the great question of Necessity has been advocated from Hobbes to Collins , Jonathan ...
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amongst ANTHONY COLLINS appears argument Atheist believe Bible Blount body Bolingbroke Cartes cause character Charles Blount Christianity Church common conceived Condorcet D'Holbach death Deism Deist Descartes divine doctrine doubt earth EDITED BY ICONOCLAST effect England Epicureans Epicurus eternal existence fact faculties faith father FLEET STREET FREETHINKERS Freethought gave genius Girondists happiness hath heaven Hebrew Bibles Helvetius Hobbes honour human idea ignorance infidel infinite JOHN WATTS king knowledge laws Letters living Lord mankind manner matter Matthew Tindal means mind moral motion nation nature never objects opinion original Paine passions philosophers pleasure Price 1d Priestley priests principles Published Fortnightly reason religion religious says senses Shelley soul Spinoza spirit Stilpo Stoics substance superstition suppose things Thomas Burnet thou thought tion Toland translation true truth universe virtue Voltaire whole words writings Zeno
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Strana 87 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Strana 87 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Strana 183 - Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
Strana 182 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith ? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also : go forth, and do so.
Strana 25 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach or check.
Strana 86 - There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.
Strana 180 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Strana 181 - Then he said, I pray, thee, therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house ; for I have five brethren ; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Strana 94 - This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself (I mean fancy itself) we call Imagination, as I said before: but when we would express the decay, and signify that the sense is fading, old and past, it is called Memory. So that imagination and memory are but one thing which for divers considerations hath divers names.
Strana 182 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).