 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1814 - 558 pages
...metallic natuie. It is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the cTicicnt, operatic, cause ofany thing. A law presupposes an agent ; for it is only...is the order, according to which that power acts. \Vithout this agent, without th.s power, which are both distinct from itself, tli': law does nothing;... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...metallic nature. It is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the efficient, operative cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent ; for it...according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this... | |
 | 1836 - 790 pages
...than the high flown poetry of transcendental sentimentalists : " a law presupposes an agent ; this is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power,... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...once more, that it is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the efficient, operative cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent, for it is...mode according to which an agent proceeds; it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...metallic nature. It is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the efficient, operative cause . " Madam," l a power ; for it is the order, according to •which that power acts. Without this agent, without this... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1824 - 324 pages
...metallic nature. It is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the efficient, operative cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent ; for it is only the jnode, according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1825 - 440 pages
...say once more, that it is a perversion of language to assign any law as the efficient operative cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent, for it is...according to which an agent proceeds ; it implies ^i power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this... | |
 | Temple Chevallier - Astronomy in the Bible - 1827 - 454 pages
...Id. p. 442. k " It is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the efficient, operative cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent: for it is...mode, according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power: for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power,... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 406 pages
...metallic nature. It is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the efficient, operative, cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent ; for it...according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this... | |
 | Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1831 - 458 pages
...language to assign any law, as the efficient operative cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent, lor it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds; it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power,... | |
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A law presupposes an agent ; for it is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the... 
