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The mind of man will never be able to contemplate the being, perfections, and providence of God without meeting with inexplicable difficulties.
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772)
When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772)
The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper.
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772)
It may, perhaps, be true, though we cannot distinctly see it to be so, that as all finite things require a cause, infinites admit of none.
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772)
Respect a parliamentary king, and chearfully pay all parliamentary taxes; but have nothing to do with a parliamentary religion, or a parliamentary God.
Religious rights, and religious liberty, are things of inestimable value.
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772)
For want of clearer knowledge of this subject, we are obliged to content ourselves with terms that convey only negative ideas, and to say that God is a being untreated or uncaused; and this is all that we mean when we sometimes say that he is self existent.
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772)