Four Dissertations Author:Richard Price General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1777 Original Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell Subjects: Unitarianism Unitarian churches Theology, Unitarian Unitarians Religion / Christian Life / Prayer Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Religion / Christian... more » Theology / Ethics Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Eschatology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECT, II. Of the arguments for Providence from the general laws and conflitution of the world IT has been fhewn in the preceding fection, that the perfect charadter of the Deity cannot be maintained without allowing an all-directing and unerring Providence, It would have been taking much too large a compafs to enter, on this occa- iion, into an account of the evidence for the Divine perfections. 'Tis fufficient if it appears that the doctrine of Providence refts on (he fame foundation with them, and follows from them. There is, however, one objection here, of which it will be proper to take fome notice, It may be faid, " that our only " evidence for the Divine perfections is taken from what we obferve of their ef- ' fectsin theframeof nature, and that there- fore to infer from thefe perfections any . " greater" greater order and wifdom in the admini- ftration of nature than we can actually ' obferve, is to fuppofe greater perfection in the Deity than can be proved, and the " lame with firft determining the properties i of the caufe by the effecr., and then de- " termining the properties of the effect by ' the caufe." In anfwer to this I would obferve, i ft, that it is not true that our whole evidence for the Divine perfections is taken from the frame of natu...« less