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Page 172
... immediate action of the Deity ; and this is the very theory of immediate divine agency which we advocate , except that we throw away the idle and baseless hypothesis , that Omnipotence works through machinery , instead of accomplishing ...
... immediate action of the Deity ; and this is the very theory of immediate divine agency which we advocate , except that we throw away the idle and baseless hypothesis , that Omnipotence works through machinery , instead of accomplishing ...
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... immediate agency of the Deity , and in every part it affords sufficient evidence of his wisdom and power . These events do not succeed each other at random , but according to what we term natural law ; that is , in a fixed and orderly ...
... immediate agency of the Deity , and in every part it affords sufficient evidence of his wisdom and power . These events do not succeed each other at random , but according to what we term natural law ; that is , in a fixed and orderly ...
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... immediate , his moral govern- ment is also immediate . The whole series of arrangements and events by which his law is made known to man , and is upheld by the ordinary course of human affairs , is the direct conse- quence of his ...
... immediate , his moral govern- ment is also immediate . The whole series of arrangements and events by which his law is made known to man , and is upheld by the ordinary course of human affairs , is the direct conse- quence of his ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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