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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1789. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PART III. . .A.FTER some silence Socrates turned to Cebes, and said: Dear Cebes, as you have now got more just ideas of the nature of immortal beings, what do you think of the poets, who often make a god envious of the merit of a mortal, and an enemy tp him from mere malice. You know, Socrates, what we have learned to think of such DEGREESeachers, and their inventions, .... > Hatred and envy, those mean-spirited passions, are totally incompatible with the character of a deity, *' I am convinced of that. You believe now, therefore, more confidently, that you, we, and all our fellow L 4 creacreatures, are neither hated, envied, nor persecuted, by the all-sacred being who has produced us, but, on the contrary, beloved in the tenderest manner. In this sirm conviction can the smallest fear attend you, that the supreme being will doom you to eternal torment, whether guilty or innor cent. changeable in itself, and that depends, there DEGREESfore, not on the will, but is consistent with the knowledge of Qod. We must look to his supreme perfection in such cases, and endeavour to investigate what contradicts or accords with it. When we are convinced that any thing is incompatible with it, we may reject and deem it impossible, as if it were contrary to the nature and being of the J: hings in consideration. Never} never, cried Appollbdorus, to whom the question was not directed, while Cebes was content with giving his assent to It. in silence. We shall, continued Socrates, take this position for granted, therefore: "That *' God does not destine his creatures to per*' petual misery," as a measure of our certainty of knowledge, when we discourse of future things which depend solely upon his will. From nature and the properties of created things, nothing in this respect can be inf...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235024757
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 123502475X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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