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" God is related to the universe, as Creator and Preserver; the laws by which he created all things, are those by which he preserves them. He acts according to these rules, because he knows them; he knows them, because he made them; and he made them, because... "
The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects - Page 290
by George Combe - 1829 - 310 pages
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The Spirit of Laws, Volumes 1-2

Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...these to one another. God is related to the universe, as Creator and Preserver ; the laws by which he created all things, are those by which he preserves...them. He acts according to these rules, because he Snows them ; he knows them, because he made them ; and he made them, because they are relative to his...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text Book for ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 610 pages
...these to one another. God is related to the universe as creator and preserver; the laws by which Ire created all things, are those by which he preserves...because he knows them ; he knows them, because he made them ; and he made them, because they are relative to his wisdom and power. Since we observe that...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text Book for ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 622 pages
...preserves them. He acts according to these rules, because he knows them ; he knows them, because he made them ; and he made them, because they are relative to his wisdom and power. Since we observe that the world, though formed by the motion of matter, and void of understanding,...
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The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects

George Combe - Human beings - 1835 - 440 pages
...Creator and preserver; the laws by which he has created all things are those hy which he presernes llvem. He acts according to these rules, because he knows...and power, &c. ' Man, as a physical being, is, like oilier bodies, governed by invariable laws.' — Spirit of Laws, bici Justice Blackstone observes,...
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The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects

George Combe - Human beings - 1835 - 442 pages
...universe as Creator and preserver; the laws by which he lias created all things are those ly whirh he preserves them. He acts according to these rules, because he knows them : ha knows them because he has made them ; and he made them because they are relative to his wisdom...
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A Syllabus of Logic: In which the Views of Kant are Generally Adopted, and ...

Thomas Solly - Logic - 1839 - 192 pages
...intelligible propositions ; therefore they are both true, or both false. (9.) God acts according to laws because he knows them, he knows them because he has made them, he has made them because they bear a certain relation to his wisdom and power ; therefore God acts...
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The Constitution of Man

George Combe - Phrenology - 1845 - 498 pages
...which subsist between it and different beings, and the relations of these beings among themselves. 1 to Omniscience ;) that we are exposed to the piercing...would be but as the powerless gaze of an infant ! lite other bodies, governed by invariable laws.'— Spirit of Laws, b. i, ci Justice Blackstone observes,...
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The Constitution of Man

George Combe - Phrenology - 1850 - 452 pages
...be more absurd than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings 1 * There is, then, a primitive reason ; and laws are...acts according to these rules, because he knows them r he knows them because he has made them ; and he made them because they are relative to his wisdom...
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the constitution of man

george combe - 1860 - 390 pages
...be more absurd than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings 1 " There is, then, a primitive reason ; and laws are...being, is, like other bodies, governed by invariable laws."—Spirit of Laws, book i. chap. i. Justice Blackstone observes, that " Law, in its most general...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

Missions - 1871 - 792 pages
...nobler agencies appear upon the scene of action. ''He acts," observes Montesquieu, " by these laws because He knows them ; He knows them because He has made them ; and He has made them because they have an affinity with His wisdom and power." 5. Almanacs recall and suggest...
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