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... whole of the Scripture History as a series of Parables , never designed to be believed as literally true , any more than Æsop's Fables , though intended ( like them ) to convey some moral lessons . The Naturalists , on the contrary ...
... whole of the Scripture History as a series of Parables , never designed to be believed as literally true , any more than Æsop's Fables , though intended ( like them ) to convey some moral lessons . The Naturalists , on the contrary ...
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... whole life ; and that therefore all except per- haps some five or six out of every million , had better not trouble themselves at all about the matter . It is very strange that it should fail to occur to any man of good sense , that it ...
... whole life ; and that therefore all except per- haps some five or six out of every million , had better not trouble themselves at all about the matter . It is very strange that it should fail to occur to any man of good sense , that it ...
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... between an avowed Atheist and professed favourers of Christianity , of different parties , and the contrast they all present to the New Testament writers . ' Upon the whole , we may conclude that the 6 INTRODUCTION .
... between an avowed Atheist and professed favourers of Christianity , of different parties , and the contrast they all present to the New Testament writers . ' Upon the whole , we may conclude that the 6 INTRODUCTION .
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William Paley. ' Upon the whole , we may conclude that the christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles , but even at this day can- not be believed by any reasonable per- son without one . Mere reason is in- sufficient ...
William Paley. ' Upon the whole , we may conclude that the christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles , but even at this day can- not be believed by any reasonable per- son without one . Mere reason is in- sufficient ...
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... whole race , either by the imperfection of their faculties , the misfortune of their situation , or by the loss of some prior revelation , to want this knowledge , and not to be likely without the aid of a new revelation to attain it ...
... whole race , either by the imperfection of their faculties , the misfortune of their situation , or by the loss of some prior revelation , to want this knowledge , and not to be likely without the aid of a new revelation to attain it ...
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