A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three Parts |
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... heathen public . Now the first thing that strikes us is , that the re- ligion they carried with them was exclusive . It denied without reserve the truth of every article of heathen mythology , the existence of every ob- ject of their ...
... heathen public . Now the first thing that strikes us is , that the re- ligion they carried with them was exclusive . It denied without reserve the truth of every article of heathen mythology , the existence of every ob- ject of their ...
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... heathens considered religion entirely as an affair of state , as much under the tuition of the magistrate , as any ... heathen establishment : " Hi ritus , quoquo modo inducti , antiquitate de- fenduntur . " It was also a splendid and ...
... heathens considered religion entirely as an affair of state , as much under the tuition of the magistrate , as any ... heathen establishment : " Hi ritus , quoquo modo inducti , antiquitate de- fenduntur . " It was also a splendid and ...
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... , which some of the heathen writers of that age had gained , and which a few passages in their remaining works incidentally discover to us , offers itself to our notice in the first place : 22 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
... , which some of the heathen writers of that age had gained , and which a few passages in their remaining works incidentally discover to us , offers itself to our notice in the first place : 22 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
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... heathen sacrifices .. The constancy , and by consequence the suffer- ings of the Christians of this period , is also re- ferred to by Epictetus , who imputes their intre- pidity to madness , or to a kind of fashion or habit ; and about ...
... heathen sacrifices .. The constancy , and by consequence the suffer- ings of the Christians of this period , is also re- ferred to by Epictetus , who imputes their intre- pidity to madness , or to a kind of fashion or habit ; and about ...
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... heathen writers . It is in our own books that the detail and interior of the transaction must be sought for . And this is nothing dif- ferent from what might be expected . Who would write a history of Christianity , but a Christian ...
... heathen writers . It is in our own books that the detail and interior of the transaction must be sought for . And this is nothing dif- ferent from what might be expected . Who would write a history of Christianity , but a Christian ...
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