Some Thoughts Concerning Religion Natural And Revealed

Author : Duncan Forbes
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ISBN 13 : 9781330489437
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Some Thoughts Concerning Religion, Natural and Revealed, and the Manner of Understanding Revelation written by Duncan Forbes and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Thoughts Concerning Religion, Natural and Revealed, and the Manner of Understanding Revelation: Tending to Show That Christianity Is Indeed Very Near, as Old as the Creation It is impossible to view the immensity, the variety, the harmony, and the beauty of the Universe, without concluding it to be the workmanship of a Being infinitely powerful, wife, and good. It is impossible to examine the structure of the most inconsiderable plant or animal, without being surprised with such admirable contrivance, as pronounces the author infinitely intelligent, and excludes all suspicion, that it ow'd its origin to blind chance. The vegetable world is adjusted with such amazing skill, that each plant, perfect in its own kind, is supported, and propagated, mechanically, by the unerring action of the fun, the air, and the earth where it grows; its feeds, by that mechanism, produce new plants of the fame kind; and the herb, that perishes with the season, cloaths the fields with the fame livery against the next: that brute matter, inert, and insensible, should be framed so as to perform such wonders, shews wisdom, and power, far beyond the comprehension of the most perfect man. The action of the material powers in this system upon the organized body of a plant preserves, and propagates it; its roots shoot out into the soil where it grows, there it finds abundant aliment for perfecting its trunk, and preparing its feeds, and those feeds are dropped where they meet the like encouragement. but it is not so with animals; the most perfect of the kind, left to the direction of material and mechanical powers only, must perish without rearing any succession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.