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- A Discourse Concerning The Being And Attributes Of God
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- THE PREFACE.
- THE CONTENTS. THE Introduction, concerning the causes of Atheism 1
- Introduction
- I. Proposition I. First then, it is absolutely and undeniably certain, that Something must have existed from eternity.
- II. Proposition II: There must have existed from eternity one independent being.
- Proposition III: The one independent Being must be necessarily existing.
- IV. Proposition IV. The essence of the self-existent Being incomprehensible.
- V. Proposition V. That the self-existent being must be eternal.
- VI. Proposition VI. That the self-existent being must be infinite and omnipresent.
- VII. Proposition VII. That the self-existent being can be but one.
- VIII. Proposition VIII. That the self-existent being must be intelligent.
- IX. Proposition IX. That the self-existent being must be a free agent.
- X. Proposition X. That the self-existent being must be all-powerful.
- XI. Proposition XI. That the supreme cause and author of all things must of necessity be infinitely wise.
- XII. Proposition XII. The supreme author of all things must be infinitely good, just, and true.
- Introduction
- THE PREFACE.
- I. Proposition I. The same necessary and eternal different relations
- II. Proposition II. Though these eternal moral obligations are indeed of themselves incumbent on all rational beings,
- III. Proposition III. Though the fore-mentioned eternal moral obligations
- IV. Proposition IV. Though in order to establish this suitable difference between the fruits or effects of virtue and vice,
- V. Proposition V. Though the necessity and indispensableness of all the great and moral obligations of natural religion,
- VI. Proposition VI. Though in almost every age there have indeed been in the heathen world some wise and brave and good men,
- VII. Proposition VII. For these reasons there was plainly wanting a divine revelation,
- VIII. Proposition VIII. There is no other religion now in the world but the Christian that has any just pretence
- IX. Proposition IX. The Christian religion, considered in its primitive simplicity,
- X. Proposition X. First, the practical duties which the Christian religion enjoins,
- XI. Proposition XI. Secondly, The motives by which the Christian religion enforces the practice of the duties
- XII. Proposition XII. Thirdly, the peculiar manner and circumstances with which the Christian religion enjoins the duties,
- XIII. Proposition XIII. Fourthly; all the [credenda, or] doctrines, which the true, simple, and uncorrupted Christian religion teaches,
- XIV. Proposition XIV. Fifthly, As this revelation, to the judgment of right and sober reason,
- XV. Proposition XV. Lastly; They who will not, by the arguments and proofs before mentioned,
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