The Philosophical Works of Mr. William Dudgeon. Carefully CorrectedPrivately printed, 1765 - 290 Seiten |
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Seite 224 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.
Seite 224 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Seite 221 - As Men for ever temp'rate, calm, and wife, If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's defign, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but he, whofe hand the lightning...
Seite 80 - God, without influencing men's wills by his power, yet by his foresight cannot but have as much more certain a knowledge of future free events, than either men or angels can possibly have, as the perfection of his nature is greater than that of theirs.
Seite 224 - Submit. — In this, or any other fphere, Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear : Safe in the hand of one difpofing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Seite 14 - KOIKOV, what is the cause and original of evil. For liberty implying a natural power of doing evil as well as good; and the imperfect nature of finite beings making it possible for them to abuse this their liberty to an actual commission of evil...
Seite 231 - Revd. Mr. Jackson, from William Dudgeon a gentleman in Berwickshire. With Mr. Jackson's answers to them written in the years 1735 and 1736 ; and occasioned by two books written by Mr. Jackson, one entituled The existence and unity of God proved from His nature and attributes, the other being the Defence of it.
Seite 279 - A universal being can have no interest opposite and therefore can have no malice.' If there be a general mind, it can have no particular interest...
Seite 203 - ... his Charge, which perhaps he is very far from entertaining. MR. Leibnitz agrees, that God created the World, and that he is a Being quite distinct from his Work; in this he differs from Spinosa, who seems to have confounded the Cause with its Effect. GOD, that is to say, the Eternal Being, is such, that it implies a Contradiction for him not to be; Infinite in Power, infinite in Knowledge, he comprehends in himself the Ideas of every Thing he has Power to give Being to. An Infinity of Worlds...
Seite 3 - Quarto. Pp. 8.* STATE (the) of the moral world consider'd ; or, a vindication of providence in the government of the moral world ; shewing that there is no other evil in it, but that arising from the necessary imperfection of creatures. And that this life is a state of discipline, to train us up in virtue, by which we are fitted for a more perfect society, capable of greater happiness in a future state of existence. By WD [William DUDGEON.] Edinburgh: M DCC xxxn.