Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Matthew Turner
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10. "We might as well say a table had no cause, as that the world had none." 11. "A Being originally and necessarily capable of comprehending itself, it is not improper to call infinite, for we can have no idea of any bounds to it's knowledge or power." 12. "A series of finite causes cannot possibly be carried back _ad infinitum_." 13. "Our imagination revolts at the idea of an intellectual soul of the universe, that is, of an intelligence resulting from arrangement." 14. "The actual existence of the universe compels us to come at last to an _originally existent and intellectual Being_, because if the immediate maker of the universe has not existed from all eternity, he must have derived his being and senses from one who has, and that being we call God." 15. "God must be present to all his works, if we admit no power can act but where it is, he must therefore exist every where, because his works are every where." 16. "As no being can unmake or materially change himself (at least none can annihilate himself) so God is unchangeable, for no Being God made can change him and no other Being can exist but what God made." |
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