A View of the Evidences of Christianity in Three Parts and the Horae Paulinae |
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... believe , has ever been brought forward . The opponents of Christianity always chuse their own position ; and the position they chuse is always that of the assailant . They bring for- ward objections ; but never attempt to defend ...
... believe , has ever been brought forward . The opponents of Christianity always chuse their own position ; and the position they chuse is always that of the assailant . They bring for- ward objections ; but never attempt to defend ...
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... believe ; though these reasons may not be the twentieth part of what might be adduced , if there were any need for it . Any one of us , for instance , may be fully convinced , and on very good grounds , that he was in such and such ...
... believe ; though these reasons may not be the twentieth part of what might be adduced , if there were any need for it . Any one of us , for instance , may be fully convinced , and on very good grounds , that he was in such and such ...
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... believe in a true religion , no matter on what grounds , it is better to let them alone in their uninquiring faith , than to agitate and unsettle their minds by telling them about evi- dences . They should be kept in ignorance , we are ...
... believe in a true religion , no matter on what grounds , it is better to let them alone in their uninquiring faith , than to agitate and unsettle their minds by telling them about evi- dences . They should be kept in ignorance , we are ...
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... believe what is most contrary to custom and expe- rience . ' Hume's - is Essay on Miracles ( at the end ) . · we are to be censured for having ' shifted the ground of our belief from testimony to argument , and from faith to reason ...
... believe what is most contrary to custom and expe- rience . ' Hume's - is Essay on Miracles ( at the end ) . · we are to be censured for having ' shifted the ground of our belief from testimony to argument , and from faith to reason ...
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... believe of the divine power and character , that either the propositions themselves , or facts strictly connected with the propositions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) , ought to be rejected at first ...
... believe of the divine power and character , that either the propositions themselves , or facts strictly connected with the propositions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) , ought to be rejected at first ...
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