 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 436 pages
...meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences, from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must ne^ cessarily have truth for their foundation. This argument appeared to my mind of so much value (especially... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1824 - 426 pages
...meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences^ from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation. This argument appeared to my mind of so much value (especially... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 408 pages
...fraudulent coo- ' trirance. But coincidences, from which these causes are excluded, and which are ton close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must necessarily have tn,rt for their foundation. This argument appeared to my mind of sofflJKh value (especially... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation."1 These coincidences are illustrated at considerable length,... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1825 - 454 pages
...meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences, from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation. This argument appeared to my mind of so much value (especially... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation."1 These coincidences are illustrated at considerable length,... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1828 - 610 pages
...meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences, from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation. This argument appeared to my mind of so much value (especially... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 378 pages
...meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences, from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation. This argument appeared to my mind of so much value (especially... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1830 - 342 pages
...meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental occurrences, or fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation. This argument appeared to... | |
 | John Brewster - Bible - 1830 - 602 pages
...the history was taken from the letters, nor the letters from the history. Coincidences, therefore, which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental occurrences of fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation V 1 Paley's View, &c. vol.... | |
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... circumstances in which they consist to the places in which those circumstances occur, and the circuitous references by which they are traced out) demonstrates that they have not been produced by meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences,... 
