The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy: In Two Volumes

The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy

the P R I N C I P L E S of M O R A L and C H R I S T I A N philosophy. in two volumes. By George Turnbull, LL. D. vol. ii. containing, Christian Philosophy: or the Christian Doctrine concerning God, Providence, Virtue, and a Future State, proved to be agreeable to True Philosophy, and to be attended with a Truly Philosophical Evidence. LONDON: Printed for J. Noon, at the White Hart, near Mercer’s Chapel in Cheapside. MDCCXL. Christian Philosophy: or, the christian doctrine concerning God, Providence, Virtue, and a Future State, Proved to be Agreeable to True Philosophy, And to be attended with A Truly Philosophical Evidence. By George Turnbull, LL. D. Be not deceived, God is not mocked, whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. Gal. vi. 7. Factus a Deo mundus ut homines nascerentur; nascuntur autem homines ut Deum patrem agnoscant, utcolant,inquojustitiaest:colunt ut mercedem immortalitatis accipiant: accipiunt immortalitatem,utin aeternum Deo serviant. Videsne, quemadmodum sibi connexa sint & prima cum mediis, & media cum extremis? Inspiciantur singula: & videamus utrumne illis ratio quoque subsistat. Lactantius, Divin. Inst. cap. 10.1 LONDON: Printed for J. Noon, at the White Hart, near Mercer’s Chapel in Cheapside. MDCCXL. 1. Lactantius, Divine Institutes, bk. 7, ch. 6: “The world was made by God so that human beings should be born. Human beings are born so that they should know God the father and should worship him, wherein lies justice. They worship him so that they may gain the reward of immortality, and so may serve God in eternity. Do you not see how these are connected, the first with the intermediate, and the intermediate with the last? Let us look at each of them and let us see whether there is a reason for them being as they are.” The first three sentences closely resemble apassage in the critical edition of Divinarum institutionum, bk. 7, ch. 6. The remaining two sentences are comment on the first three. ...