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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 424 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=24mm, Gew.=617gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 424 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=24mm, Gew.=617gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: endless. These are sufficient to give us an idea how affecting and useful such views are, and at the same time how entertaining to a speculative mind. LECTURE III. Thirdly, History tends to strengthen the sentiments of virtue, by the variety of views in which it exhibits the conduct of divine Providence, and points out the hand of God, in the affairs of men. For certainly whatever suggests to us the idea of a divine Being, either in the end or means of great events, must be favourable to piety and virtue. That the world has a governor, or super intendant, is just as evident as that it had a maker. For no person does any thing without some design, or without intending to make some use of it. A telescope is made to be used for the better distinguishing distant objects, the eye itself for seeing things at a moderate distance from us, and no doubt, men and the world for some end or other. And as the same Being that made the greatest things made the smallest things also, all being parts of the same system, some use, no doubt, is made of every thing, even what appears to us the most inconsiderable; so that, as our Saviour observed, a sparrow falls not to the ground without God, and the very hairs of our heads are numbered. Also, as nothing was made, so nothing can come to pass, without the knowledge, the appointment, or permission of God. Something, therefore, is intended by every thing that happens, as well as by every thing that is made. But in little things a design is not so apparent as in greater and mo.re striking things. Though, therefore, the hand of God be really in every thing that happens, and that is recorded in history, our attention is more forcibly drawn to it in great events, and especially in things which happen in a manner unexpected by us. How can w...<

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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley Vol. 24 Author :Joseph Priestley 9780217109130 0217109136