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... tefti- mony , this author has provided an answer to every poffible accumulation of historical proof by telling us , that we are not obliged to explain how the story or the evidence arofe . arofe . Now I think that we are obliged ; [ 12 ]
... tefti- mony , this author has provided an answer to every poffible accumulation of historical proof by telling us , that we are not obliged to explain how the story or the evidence arofe . arofe . Now I think that we are obliged ; [ 12 ]
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... story . This is perfectly incredible . To me it appears little lefs than certain , that , if the first announcing of the religion by the founder had not been followed up by the zeal and industry of his immediate difciples , the the ...
... story . This is perfectly incredible . To me it appears little lefs than certain , that , if the first announcing of the religion by the founder had not been followed up by the zeal and industry of his immediate difciples , the the ...
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... story upon which it is founded , and that no act of power , force , or authority , was concerned in its firft fuccefs , I fhould conclude , from the very nature and ` exigency of the case , that the author of the religion during his ...
... story upon which it is founded , and that no act of power , force , or authority , was concerned in its firft fuccefs , I fhould conclude , from the very nature and ` exigency of the case , that the author of the religion during his ...
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... story ; I mean , that they pretended to miraculous evidence of fome kind or other . They had nothing else to stand upon . The defignation of the person , that is to fay , that Jesus of Nazareth , rather than any other perfon , was the + ...
... story ; I mean , that they pretended to miraculous evidence of fome kind or other . They had nothing else to stand upon . The defignation of the person , that is to fay , that Jesus of Nazareth , rather than any other perfon , was the + ...
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... story which Chriftians had then ? and of this the following proofs may be deduced from general confiderations , and from confiderations prior to any enquiry into the particular reafons and teftimonies by which the authority of our ...
... story which Chriftians had then ? and of this the following proofs may be deduced from general confiderations , and from confiderations prior to any enquiry into the particular reafons and teftimonies by which the authority of our ...
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