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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
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Meditations upon the attributes of God and the nature of man.
Date: 1770- Books
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A view of revealed religion, as it stands to the reason. By the author of Meditations upon the attributes of God and nature of man.
Author of Meditations upon the attributes of God and nature of man.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Observations upon the liturgy. With a proposal for its reform, upon the Principles of Christianity, as professed and taught by the Church of England; and An Attempt to reconcise the Doctrines of the Angels' Apostacy and perpetual Punishment, Man's Fall and Redemption, and the Incarnation of the Son of God, to our Conceptions of the Divine Nature and Attributes. By a layman of the Church of England, Late an Under Secretary of State. To which is added, the journals of the American convention, appointed to frame an ecclesiastical constitution, and prepare a Liturgy for the Episcopal Churches in the United States.
Knox, William, 1732-1810.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A second volume of philosophical meditations, with divine inferences: containing a view of 1. The primitive purity of the creation. 2. The Change that ensued upon Man's Disobedience. 3. The further Changes that succeeded the Deluge, and Lamech's Prophecy concerning his Son Noah considered; with a new Definition of the present Phaenomena of our Atmosphere in the Nature of Lightning in a clear Sky, Fire-Balls, Fire-Drakes, Shooting-Stars, and Lights in the North, with Tempests of Thunder and Lightning. 4. The last and final Change to be expected, after which all Subjection to future Change will be wholly remov'd. 5. The state of the blessed in a new heaven, and a New Earth. The whole being interspersed with Divine Inferences and many useful Curiosities never before taken notice of by any other Author. The Preface containing, besides other things, the Author's Opinion of the Millennium; as not being a Temporal Reign of Christ, &c. With a postscript on the nature of water-spouts. By Benjamin Parker, Author of the last Philosophical Meditations, and Longitude at Sea.
Parker, Benjamin, -1747.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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A clear and comprehensive view of the being, nature, and attributes of God, formed Not only upon the Divine Authority of The Holy Scriptures, but the solid Reasonings and Testimonies of the Best Authors, both Heathen and Christian, which have writ upon the Subject. With practical inferences, remarks, and exhortations, for the more effectual revival of true piety and religion, which in this degenerate Age of Infidelity and Licentiousness, is but too much wanted. The second edition, with large additions. By Joseph Smith, D. D. Provost of Queen's College, Oxon; Prebendary of St. Paul's; and Rector of St. Dionys, London.
Smith, Joseph, 1670-1756.Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]