A View of the Evidences of Christianity in Three Parts and the Horae Paulinae |
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Page 42
... amongst the common people ; to form in the heart of the country socie- ties professing their tenets ; to provide for the order , instruc- tion , and permanency of these societies ; nor did they enjoin their followers to withdraw ...
... amongst the common people ; to form in the heart of the country socie- ties professing their tenets ; to provide for the order , instruc- tion , and permanency of these societies ; nor did they enjoin their followers to withdraw ...
Page 43
... amongst the intelligent part of the heathen Public . It is by no means true that unbelievers are usually tolerant . They are not disposed ( and why should they ? ) to endanger the present state of things , by suffering a religion of ...
... amongst the intelligent part of the heathen Public . It is by no means true that unbelievers are usually tolerant . They are not disposed ( and why should they ? ) to endanger the present state of things , by suffering a religion of ...
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... amongst the same people , and in the same age , could not but be attended with danger . Suetonius , a writer contemporary with Tacitus , describing the transactions of the same reign , uses these words : ' Affecti suppliciis Christiani ...
... amongst the same people , and in the same age , could not but be attended with danger . Suetonius , a writer contemporary with Tacitus , describing the transactions of the same reign , uses these words : ' Affecti suppliciis Christiani ...
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... amongst them by God ; and that he was appointed by God the future judge of the human species ; that all who were solicitous to secure to themselves happiness after death , ought to receive him as such , and to make profession of their ...
... amongst them by God ; and that he was appointed by God the future judge of the human species ; that all who were solicitous to secure to themselves happiness after death , ought to receive him as such , and to make profession of their ...
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... amongst themselves a strict union and society ; ' that , the attention of the Jewish government being soon drawn upon them , two of the principal persons of the twelve , and who also had lived most intimately and constantly with the ...
... amongst themselves a strict union and society ; ' that , the attention of the Jewish government being soon drawn upon them , two of the principal persons of the twelve , and who also had lived most intimately and constantly with the ...
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