 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1714 - 454 pages
...often confider'd by him, not only as juft and lawful, but as divine, and worthy of Imitation. i FOR whoever thinks there is a GOD, and pretends formally to believe that he is jujt and good, muft iuppofe that there is independently Jtiich a thing as Juflice and lice) Truth and... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1723 - 456 pages
...him, not only as juft and lawful, but as aivine, and worthy of imitation. . V* - • -» * " • FOR whoever. thinks there is a GOD, and pretends formally to believe ".that he i&juft and good, muft luppofe that there is independently luch a thing as Juflice and e, Truth and... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1727 - 454 pages
...and Fal/hood, Right and Wrong \ : Book \.Wrong ; according to which he pronounces that Cod is juji, righteous, and true. If the mere Will, ^Decree, or Law of God be faid abfolutely to conftitute Right and Wrong, then are thefe latter words of no fignificancy at all.... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1732 - 450 pages
...be often confider'd by him, not only as juft and lawful, but as divine, and worthy of imitation. FOR whoever thinks there is a GOD, and pretends formally to believe that he is jujl and good, muft fuppofe that there is independently fuch a thing, as Juftice and Injuftice, truth... | |
 | Elisha Smith - 1737 - 492 pages
...therefore in the Cbaracterifticks *, quite miftakes the Character wherein God judges and determines : " Whoever thinks there " is a God, and pretends formally to believe '' that he is juft and good, muft fuppofe that " there is independantly fuch a thing as Juftice and Injuftice, Truth... | |
 | 1829 - 842 pages
...be often considered by him, not only as just and lawful, but as divine, and worthy of imitation. For whoever thinks there is a god, and pretends formally...said absolutely to constitute right and wrong, then all these latter words are of no significancy at all. For thus if each part of a contradiction were... | |
 | 1829 - 624 pages
...be often considered by him, not only as just and lawful, but as divine, and worthy of imitation. For whoever thinks there is a god, and pretends formally...falsehood, right and wrong; according to which he pronounces"that God is just, righteous, and true. If the mere will, decree, or law of God be said absolutely... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...absurd to speak of the goodness or of the justice of God. " Whoever thinks," says Shaftesbury, " that there is a God, and pretends formally to believe that...and falsehood, right and wrong, according to which eternal and immutable standards he pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true. If the mere will,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...injustice, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, according to which eternal and immutable standards he pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true....right and wrong, then are these latter words of no signification at all." * In justice, indeed, to one of the writers above mentioned (Dr. Paley) it is... | |
 | Joseph Gilbert - 1836 - 492 pages
...rest. The following remarks of Shaftesbury are as well-founded as applicable to this subject. " For whoever thinks there is a God, and pretends formally to believe that he in just and good, must suppose that there is independently such a thing as justice and injustice, truth... | |
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For whoever thinks there is a God, and pretends formally to believe that he is just and good, must suppose that there is independently such a thing as justice and injustice, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, according to which he pronounces that God... 
