 | Lewis White Beck - Philosophy - 1966 - 321 pages
...Thus, from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and...truth,— That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being; which whether any one will please to call God, it matters not. The thing is evident;... | |
 | G R Cragg - 2003
...'Thus from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and...truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being, which whether any one will please to call God, it matters not. The thing is evident;... | |
 | Edward Stillingfleet - Trinity
...Vindication of Confederation of our felves, and what we find in our own Con/I itut ions, our Reafon leads us to the Knowledge of this certain and evident Truth ; that there is an eternal, mo[t powerful, and moft knowing Being. All which I readily yield ; but we fee plainly, the Certainty... | |
 | Reinhard Bendix - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 480 pages
.... Thus from a consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and...truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being; which whether anyone will please to call God, it matters not. The thing is evident;... | |
 | Vere Chappell, Cambridge University Press - Philosophy - 1994 - 329 pages
...Locke, "from the Consideration of our selves, and what we infallibly find in our own Constitutions, our Reason leads us to the Knowledge of this certain and...Truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being" (E IV.x.6: 621). The existence of God is a condition of one's own existence. When... | |
 | Colin E. Gunton - Religion - 1997 - 307 pages
...as the true basis of doctrine. Collins was a disciple of John Locke, who, like Spinoza, argued that 'reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain...truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being', whose attributes are finally but an enlarged idea of our own perfections.30 But... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1998 - 1616 pages
...that 'from the Consideration of our selves, and what we infallibly find in our own Constitutions, our Reason leads us to the Knowledge of this certain and...Truth, That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being' That is, God exists.132 Though Locke's argument is more complex than Hobbes's,... | |
 | Mordecai Roshwald - Philosophy - 1999 - 198 pages
...introduces. perhaps not quite consistently. other elements into his system. The most crucial is what he calls "this certain and evident truth. — That there is an eternal. most powerful. and most knowing Being."1" Once deux ex machina makes his appearance (Locke believes to have proven his... | |
 | R. Crocker - History - 2001 - 228 pages
...'Thus from the Consideration of our selves, and what we infallibly find in our own Constitutions, our Reason leads us to the Knowledge of this certain and...Truth, That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being; which whether any one will please to call God it matters not."31 We know more certainly... | |
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Thus from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing being ; which whether any... 
