 | George Ripley - 1840 - 414 pages
...other." * " I affirmed, that with regard to God, no one possible thing is more miraculous than another ; and that therefore a miracle does not consist in any...of nature and course of nature, and the like, are nothing but empty words ; and signify merely, that a thing usually or frequently comes to pass. The... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1875 - 408 pages
...forces of nature as the immediate and continual operation of God or intermediate spirits upon matter. " The terms nature, and powers of nature, and course of nature, and the like, are nothing but empty words, and signify merely that a thing usually or frequently conies to pass. The... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1890 - 690 pages
...were of this Learned Author's Opinion) have acknowledged: Which is not the Matter in Question. 407 — 109. I affirmed, that, with regard to God, no one...20, 21, 22, and Fifth Paper § 29. 2) See above, Mr. Leibnitz's Postscript to his Fourth Paper. :r § HM. 4¡ § 105. 5) § 106. nothing but empty Words;... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1906 - 320 pages
...Clarke's criticism of the "mechanical hypothesis" which makes nature a machine that goes of itself. "The terms nature and powers of nature and course of nature and the like are nothing but empty words, and signify merely that a thing usually or frequently comes to pass. The raising... | |
 | R. S. Woolhouse - 1994 - 536 pages
...the natural is that which can be explained by the natures of creatures, Clarke finally protests that 'The terms, nature, and powers of nature, and course of nature and the like are empty words; and signify merely that a thing usually or frequently comes about.' (Clarke, V, 107-109).... | |
 | William Carl Placher - 1996 - 240 pages
...God." Clarke suggested at one point, "no one possible thing is more miraculous than another; and . . . therefore a miracle does not consist in any difficulty...but merely in the unusualness of God's doing it." ("Clarke's Fifth Reply." Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, 114.) "Miracles are so called not because they... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - 2000 - 132 pages
...107-109. I affirmed that, with regard to God, no one possible thing is more miraculous than another, and that therefore a miracle does not consist in any...of nature, and course of nature, and the like, are nothing but empty words and signifymerely that a thing usually or frequently comes to pass. The raising... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 2005 - 401 pages
...forces of nature as the immediate and continual operation of God or intermediate spirits upon matter. " The terms nature, and powers of nature, and course of nature, and the like, are nothing but empty words, and signify merely that a thing usually or frequentiy comes to pass. The raising... | |
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I affirmed that, with regard to God, no one possible thing is more miraculous than another, and that therefore a miracle does not consist in any difficulty in the nature of the thing to be done, but merely in the unusualness of God's doing it. 