| Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1875 - 408 pages
...great alterations. 14. Nay, for aught we know of ourselves — of our present life, and of death — death may immediately, in the natural course of things, put us into a highi 'iei,e Deathmayin. er and more enlarged state of hfe, as our troduce us to « .... «. .... .... | |
| Jane E. Stebbins - Future life - 1878 - 632 pages
...the language of Butler again, " for aught we know of ourselves, of our present life, and of death, death may immediately, in the natural course of things,...which our capacities and sphere of perception, and of action, may be much greater than ;;i present. 122 ANNIHILATION ABSURD. For, as our relation to our... | |
| Jane E. Stebbins - Future life - 1879 - 634 pages
...the language of Butler again, " for aught we know of ourselves, of our present life, and of death, death may immediately, in the natural course of things,...which our capacities and sphere of perception, and of action, may be much greater than at present• 122 ANNIHILATION ABSURD. For, as our relation to... | |
| Beverly Waugh Bond - Apologetics - 1880 - 300 pages
...suspended, even by death itself. Death, on the contrary, may in some sort answer to our birth, and, like it, put us into a higher and more enlarged state of life. As death therefore does not appear likely to destroy us, it is probable we shall live on, and the next... | |
| William Richard Savage - Future life - 1881 - 286 pages
...unassisted reason, could say, " For aught we know of ourselves, of our present life, and of death, death may immediately, in the natural course of things,...which our capacities and sphere of perception and of action may be much greater than at present. For as our relation to our external organs of sense... | |
| William Lucas Collins - Biography & Autobiography - 1881 - 220 pages
...aught we know of ourselves—of our present life and of death—death may immediately, in the»natural course of things, put us into a higher and more enlarged...which our capacities, and sphere of perception and of action, may be much greater than at present. For as our relation to our external organs of sense... | |
| William Lucas Collins - BUTLER, JOSEPH, BP. OF DURHAM,1692-1752 - 1881 - 204 pages
...state of life, as our birth does ; a state in which our capacities, and sphere of perception and of action, may be much greater than at present. For as...sense renders us capable of existing in our present state of sensation, so it may be the only natural hindrance to our existing, immediately and of course,... | |
| John Stock - Apologetics - 1883 - 506 pages
...of our powers of sensation" ("Analogy," p. 29) ; but on the contrary, makes it highly probable that "death may immediately, in the natural course of things,...which our capacities, and sphere of perception and of action, may be much greater than at present" ("Analogy," pp. 32, 33); is demonstrated by the revelations... | |
| Joseph Butler - Apologetics - 1883 - 376 pages
...last, there will be, if thu* wcr« possible, <JSM lor tae next, and less still for the first. tilings, put us into a higher and more enlarged state of life,...does;* a state in which our capacities, and sphere of ptrception and of action, may be much greater than at present. For as our relation to our external... | |
| Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1884 - 322 pages
...and such great alterations. Nay, for aught we know of ourselves, of our present life and of death, death may immediately, in the natural course of things,...birth does' ; a state in which our capacities, and 1 There are three distinct questions relating to a future life here considered: Whether death be the... | |
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