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" We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence,... "
Elementary algebra: with brief notices of its history - Page 30
by Robert Potts - 1879
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The Religions and Religious Ceremonies of All Nations: Accurately ...

Joseph Nightingale - Religions - 1835 - 806 pages
...final causes: but we adore and worship him only on account of his dominion ; for God, setting aside dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature." —The existence of such a being, or first cause of all things, is thus beautifully proved and illustrated...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 19

1841 - 524 pages
...wonder at him for his perfections, but we venerate and worship him for his dominion. We worship him as servants, and a God without dominion, providence,...final causes is nothing else but fate and nature. From a blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, no variation...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volumes 19-20

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1841 - 1040 pages
...wonder at him for his perfections, but we venerate and worship him for his dominion. We worship him as servants, and a God without dominion, providence,...final causes is nothing else but fate and nature. From a blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, no variation...
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The Natural Or the Supernatural? By a Layman [i.e. Thomas M. Stevenson].

Layman, Thomas M. Stevenson - Revelation - 1874 - 120 pages
...contrivance of things and final causes ;" though we will not go farther with Sir Isaac in saying, " But we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion....final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature." After having fearlessly followed out our inquiry on this head to whatever conclusion it may conduct...
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The Theistic Conception of the World: An Essay in Opposition to Certain ...

B. F. Cocker - Theism - 1875 - 436 pages
...every where. . . . We know Him only by His most wise and excellent contrivances of things and final causes; we admire Him for His perfections ; but we...reverence and adore Him on account of His dominion. A God without dominion, providence, and final causes is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind mechanical...
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Modern Physical Fatalism and the Doctrine of Evolution: Including an ...

Thomas Rawson Birks - Christianity - 1876 - 346 pages
...account of his dominion. For we adore Him as his servants ; and a God without dominion, providence, final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature....produce no variety of things. All that diversity of things which we find, suited to different times and places, could arise from nothing but the ideas...
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Heroes of faith as delineated in Hebrews

John Guthrie - Bible - 1878 - 230 pages
...can be done. . . . We know Him only by His most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire Him for His perfections; but we...reverence and adore Him on account of His dominion. For \ve adore Him as His servants; and a God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing...
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Supernatural Revelation: Or, First Principles of Moral Theology

Thomas Rawson Birks - Apologetics - 1879 - 304 pages
.... . " We know Him only by His most wise and excellent contrivances of things and final causes; but we admire Him for His perfections, but we reverence...and everywhere, could produce no variety of things; and that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places, could arise...
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Sunday Afternoon, Volume 3

1879 - 912 pages
...understands all things. . . . We know Him only by His most wise and excellent contrivance of things and final causes ; we admire Him for His perfections ; but we...of His dominion, for we adore Him as His servants." " I know not what I may appear to the world," said Sir Isaac Newton, " but to myself I seem to have...
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Elementary algebra, with brief notices of its history

Robert Potts - 1879 - 668 pages
...substance of Cod. We know Him only by His most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and iiual causes ; we admire Him for His perfections, but we...reverence and adore Him on account of His dominion. For wo adore Him as His servants, and a God without dominion, providence, and final causea, is nothing...
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