Richard Jack
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 36
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1747 edition. Excerpt: ... Mathematical principles of theology Richard Jack PRINCIPLES . o F THEOLOGY, C.a OR, THE Existence of G O D Geometrically Demonstrated. In THREE BOOKS. WHEREIN IS PROVED, The Existence of GOD from Eternity to Eternity, his Self-existence, Independency, and Unity. That G O D is infinite in Wisdom, Power, Knowledge, &c. ALSO, That Matter is a temporary Being; that GOD is the Cause of its Existence, and of the Existence of all other Beings, that ever did, or can exist; and upon GOD the Continuation or Termination of their Existence depends. B Y > RICHARD JACK, Teacher of Mathematicks. L O N DON: Printed for G. Hawkins at Milton's Head in Fleet-street. Mdccxlvii. .J 4 * - r . I * * * * * . . PREFACE. . '. r. i. . . . v. *. . ALithough the knowledge of trfttix DEGREES in itself highly valuable, fc difficult to attain, y$t every mart DEGREES who seriously refleSis Upon what passes within himself, mufi acknowledge, that be is possessed of faculties, by the due exertife whereof he may acquire it; such as thoughts perception, and the power of comparing ideas, arid of determining, in pursuance of such comparison*, or the faculties of rea-r foning and judging. How man came to he endued with those faculties DEGREES may appear perhaps i A 4 not not so easy to determine, hut if a very simple maxim be allowed, which no man in his right fenses ever denied, - That nothing exists without a cause, it will necessarily follow, that those human faculties are owing to some being, and since we discover in ourselves no power capable to produce them, we must ascribe them tosome other existing being able to bestow them. If we also take a view of all around us, and observe the immenfi