 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...to render it fo, /. e. to effec.1: it continually or at ftated Times ; as what is fuper— natural or miraculous does to effect it for once. And from hence it mnft follow, that Perfons Notion of what is natural, will be enlarged in Proportion to their greater... | |
 | Edward Bentham - 1773 - 164 pages
...prefupppfes an intelligent Being to render it Ib, that is, to effect it continually, or. at fb.ted times, as what is Supernatural or Miraculous does to effect it for once. Many Truths in Religion, as well as in Mathernaticks, may be eftablilhed, not fo much by {hewing' their... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...what is natural as 'much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times ; as what is supernatural, or miraculous, does to effect it fof once* And from hence it must follow, that persons' notion of what is natural will be enlarged,... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - 260 pages
...what is natural, as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural...dispensations of his providence. Nor is there any absurdity in supposing, that there may be beings in the universe, whose capacities, and knowledge,... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, v'. c. to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural...or miraculous does to effect it for once. And from he nee it must follow, that- persoas' notion of what is natural will be enlarged* in proportion to... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1820 - 268 pages
...what is natural, as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural...dispensations of his providence. Nor is there any absurdity in supposing, that there may be beings in the universe, whose capacities, and knowledge,... | |
 | 1821 - 614 pages
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, >'. c. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural...effect it for once. And from hence it must follow, that person's notions of what is natural will be enlarged in proporject of Revelation, in which one might... | |
 | 1821 - 614 pages
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ». e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural...effect it for once. And from hence it must follow, that person's notions of what is natural will be enlarged in proporjcct of Revelation, in which one might... | |
 | 1821 - 614 pages
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ic to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural...does to effect it for once. And from hence it must fellow, that person's notions of what is natural will be enlarged in proportion to their greater knowledge... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 616 pages
...Contra Faustum,' xzvi. 3.) The same thought was expressed by Bishop Butler : — ' Persons' notions of what is natural will be enlarged in proportion...dispensations of His providence ; nor is there any absurdity in supposing that there may be beings' in the universe whose capacities and knowledge and... | |
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But the only distinct meaning of that word is, stated, fixed, or settled: since what is natural as much requires, and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous... 
