An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Volume 2By J. Stephens, for W. Thurlbourn, Cambridge, and sold by J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, and W. Innys, 1732 |
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Page 297
... proper and peculiar Objects fuited to their feve- ral Appetites ; when therefore the Object proper to one Ap- petite happens to be apply'd to the contrary , It is impoffible but it should be incongruous to it , that is Evil . Nor is it ...
... proper and peculiar Objects fuited to their feve- ral Appetites ; when therefore the Object proper to one Ap- petite happens to be apply'd to the contrary , It is impoffible but it should be incongruous to it , that is Evil . Nor is it ...
Page 450
... proper Animals , which might en- joy themfelves and live as conveniently as the circumstances of the place allow'd : and where the circumstances of the station wou'd not afford conveniencies greater than the inconvenien- cies that ...
... proper Animals , which might en- joy themfelves and live as conveniently as the circumstances of the place allow'd : and where the circumstances of the station wou'd not afford conveniencies greater than the inconvenien- cies that ...
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... proper to his Nature , pure and innocent , without any Stain or Corruption . He had no Law but that of his Mind , or what he received by immediate Revelation from God ; nor any defect , but that which is unavoidably incident to every ...
... proper to his Nature , pure and innocent , without any Stain or Corruption . He had no Law but that of his Mind , or what he received by immediate Revelation from God ; nor any defect , but that which is unavoidably incident to every ...
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