 | 1849 - 604 sider
...been so long ' in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as ' yet undiscerned. For all the same phenomena and the same ' faculties of investigation,...possession of mankind several thousand ' years before.' These words are worthy of Butler ; and as many illustrations of their truth have been supplied since... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, *Heb. vi. 1. f Actsiii. 21.. that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, ' ' - . '/••''• * Heb. vi. 1. f Acts iii. 21. 1 4 that events, as they come to pass, should open... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - 256 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation,...possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture. It may be objected,... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture. It may be objected,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1820 - 264 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, alt the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation,...possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture. It may be objected,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1824 - 478 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, * Heb. vi. I. f Acts iii. 21. that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1824 - 484 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knoweldge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind, several... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 414 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture. 1 Heb. vi. l. 2... | |
 | 1834 - 588 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture. It may be objected,... | |
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Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural... 
