The Evidences of the Christian ReligionJ. Tonson, 1733 - 330 pages |
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... kind . A fuggeftion , that has really no weight , when urg'd against the writings of the Clergy in defence of Revelation , fince they do not defire to be trufted upon their own Authority , but upon the Reasons- Reasons they offer ; and ...
... kind . A fuggeftion , that has really no weight , when urg'd against the writings of the Clergy in defence of Revelation , fince they do not defire to be trufted upon their own Authority , but upon the Reasons- Reasons they offer ; and ...
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... fome account of those wonderful tranfactions in Judæa ; but there is not any fingle Author extant , in any kind , of that age , in any of thofe Countries . VI . How VI . How many books have perished in which poffibly 4 The EVIDENCES of.
... fome account of those wonderful tranfactions in Judæa ; but there is not any fingle Author extant , in any kind , of that age , in any of thofe Countries . VI . How VI . How many books have perished in which poffibly 4 The EVIDENCES of.
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... kind , and to prevent any for the future from addicting themselves to thofe rites and ceremonies , which had done them fo much honour . We fee the early ef fect which Christianity had on the minds of men in this particular , by that num ...
... kind , and to prevent any for the future from addicting themselves to thofe rites and ceremonies , which had done them fo much honour . We fee the early ef fect which Christianity had on the minds of men in this particular , by that num ...
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... and have profeffed his faith to the lait , without a fupernatural affistance of fome kind or other . For my part , when I confider that it was not an unaċ- countable countable obftinacy in a fingle man , or in any 58 The EVIDENCES of .
... and have profeffed his faith to the lait , without a fupernatural affistance of fome kind or other . For my part , when I confider that it was not an unaċ- countable countable obftinacy in a fingle man , or in any 58 The EVIDENCES of .
Page 62
... who fhould embrace them ? Suppofing his doc- trines were really fuch , why fhould this be the confequence ? what likelihood that men thould be brought before Kings and and Governors for opinions and tenets of any kind , 62 The EVIDENCES of.
... who fhould embrace them ? Suppofing his doc- trines were really fuch , why fhould this be the confequence ? what likelihood that men thould be brought before Kings and and Governors for opinions and tenets of any kind , 62 The EVIDENCES of.
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