A brief confutaton of the pretences against natural and revealed religion / [Robert Jenkin].

  • Jenkin, Robert, 1656-1727.
Date:
1702
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Credit: A brief confutaton of the pretences against natural and revealed religion / [Robert Jenkin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Motion it felf, whereby the World was made, nor the Creation of the World, could have been eternal ; be: caufe no Succeflion of Action or Ex- ‘iftence could be etermal. God, who Is moft perfect , and neceffarily ex- iftent, has a permanent Duration , as perfect as his Nature is , compre- hending att Succeffions of Time, and above all the changes of it: But the Duration of Creatures is in Succeffion, imperfect , and always changing: for the Duration of things mutt be accord- ing to their Nature >? Nahe | Atheift. 1 can’t fee, why the World may not have been made mechanical- Jy. | é Philof: How can there be Mecha- nifm without Motion> And I have proved, that no Motion can be eter- nal; but there muft be a firft Motion, and a firft Mover, who is God. Atheif?. Who knows, what Atoms in an Infinite Succeflion of Ages might do? | Philof’ We may know fuffictently;, what they could not do: they could | not