 | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d') - 1795 - 396 páginas
...it commits fuicide. X. The Jelf-exiftent being, the fupreme caufe of all things, mujt of necejjity have infinite power. There is no power but in him,...power of doing evil; without which he would be in a ftate to a£t contrary to the divine power; there would be exteriorly to God a power capable of conterbalancing... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1823 - 478 páginas
...Liberty is not in itself an Impossible and contradictory Notion 66 PROP. X. That the Self-existing Being, the Supreme cause of all things, must of necessity have Infinite Power - - - 67 Of working Contradictions, and Natural or Moral Evil 68 Of the Power of creating Matter -... | |
 | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d') - 1834 - 340 páginas
...laws, in which they have shewn somewhat more ignorance of their subject than they imagined. lOthly, " The self-existent Being, the supreme Cause of all things, must of necessity have infinite power." As nature is adequate to produce every thing we see ; as she contains the whole united power of the... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 páginas
...; but if it does, it is at best an inference from an a posteriori conclusion. Proposition tenth. " The self-existent Being, the supreme cause of all things, must of necessity have infinite power." The proof is as follows : " Since nothing (as has been already proved) can possibly be self-existent... | |
 | 1837 - 548 páginas
...; but if it does, it is at best an inference from an a posteriori conclusion. Proposition tenth. " The self-existent Being, the supreme cause of all things, must of necessity have infinite power." The proof is as follows : " Since nothing (as has been already proved) can possibly be self-existent... | |
 | 856 páginas
...the three heads of Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Perfect Goodness. They are thus stated by Clarke : ' The self-existent Being, the Supreme Cause of all things, must of necessity have infinite power, be infinitely wise, be a Being of infinite goodness, justice, and truth.' " — p. 14. We know that... | |
 | George Boole - 1854 - 442 páginas
...that this is a necessity of fitness and wisdom, and not of nature. 14. In Prop. x. it is argued, that "the self-existent being, the supreme cause of all things, must of necessity have infinite power." The ground of the demonstration is, that as " all the powers of all things are derived from him, nothing... | |
 | John Hunt - 1873 - 494 páginas
...original cause. Without liberty there could be no first Mover. The tenth proposition is that ' This Self-Existent Being, the Supreme Cause of all things, must of necessity have infinite power ; ' this following from the attribute of self-existence, and from the d posteriori fact of creation.... | |
 | William Hillier - 1881 - 258 páginas
...these qualities, even in his fallen state ; hence his responsibility to God and society. 10. "That the self-existent Being, the supreme Cause of all things, must of necessity have infinite power." This proposition is self-evident and need not be enlarged on. The most common title of God is " The... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 588 páginas
...is only that the eternal Being must be ' most powerful," Clarke ' demonstrates ' that the necessary Being, the supreme Cause of all things, 'must of necessity have infinite power.' else there has been also a knowing being from eternity. If it BOOK iv. be said, there was a time when... | |
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... wiser; which would again involve a contradiction. The theologians fearing, without doubt, to restrain the liberty of the Divinity, have supposed it was necessary that he should not be bound by his own laws, in which they have shewn somewhat more ignorance... 
