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• Introduction
• Christian Philosophy
• Preface
• Introduction
• An Explication of the Text. Gal. VI. 7.
• Section I
• Proposition I
• Proposition Ii
• Proposition Iii
• Proposition Iv
• Proposition V
• Proposition Vi
• Proposition Vii
• Corolary I
• Corolary Ii
• Section Ii
• Introduction
• Proposition I
• Proposition Ii
• Proposition Iii
• Proposition Iv
• Corolary I
• Corolary Ii
• Section Iii
• Introduction
• Proposition I
• Proposition Ii
• Corolary I
• Corolary Ii
• Corolary Iii
• Proposition Iii
• Corolary I
• Corolary Ii
• Corolary Iii
• Corolary Iv
• Section Iv
• A Preliminary Proposition
• Corolary I
• Corolary Ii
• Proposition I
• Proposition Ii
• Proposition Iii
• Query I
• Query Ii
• Query Iii
• Query Iv
• Query V
• Query Vi
• Query Vii
• Query Viii
• Query Ix
• Proposition Iv
• Proposition V
• Proposition Vi
• I.: Virtue Or Holiness Is the Condition of Eternal Happiness; Without It We Cannot Have a Right to It, Or Be Made Sharers of It.
• II.: Holiness Or Virtue Is Absolutely Necessary to Qualify For Future Happiness.
• III.: Further, the Scripture Specifies to Us the Exercises From Which the Future Happiness of the Virtuous Flow.
• IV.: That According to the Scripture Account of the State of the Virtuous In the Life to Come, It Is a State of Unchangeable, Immortal Glory and Happiness.
• Corolary I
• Corolary Ii
• Corolary Iii
• Corolary Iv
• Corolary V
• Conclusion

CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY

THE

PRINCIPLES

OF

MORAL

AND

CHRISTIAN

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.

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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, ut colant, in quo justitia est: colunt ut mercedem immortalitatis accipiant: accipiunt immortalitatem, ut in 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

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[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 a passage in the critical edition of Divinarum institutionum, bk. 7, ch. 6. The remaining two sentences are comment on the first three.