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... amongst the common people ; to form in the heart of the country societies profeffing their tenets ; to provide for the order , inftruction and permanency of thefe focieties ; nor did they enjoin their followers to withdraw themfelves ...
... amongst the common people ; to form in the heart of the country societies profeffing their tenets ; to provide for the order , inftruction and permanency of thefe focieties ; nor did they enjoin their followers to withdraw themfelves ...
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... amongst the in- telligent part of the heathen public . It is by no means true that unbelievers are usually tolerant . They are not difpofed ( and why fhould they ? ) to endanger the present state of things , by fuffering a religion of ...
... amongst the in- telligent part of the heathen public . It is by no means true that unbelievers are usually tolerant . They are not difpofed ( and why fhould they ? ) to endanger the present state of things , by fuffering a religion of ...
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... amongst them , may be ga- thered from two eminent and uncontested examples . The younger Pliny , polifhed , as he was , by all the literature of that foft and elegant period , could gravely pronounce this monftrous judgment : " Those ...
... amongst them , may be ga- thered from two eminent and uncontested examples . The younger Pliny , polifhed , as he was , by all the literature of that foft and elegant period , could gravely pronounce this monftrous judgment : " Those ...
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... to establish his religion , in the fame country , amongst the fame people , and in the fame age , could not but be attended with danger . Suetonius , Suetonius , a writer contemporary with Tacitus , defcribing the [ 46 ]
... to establish his religion , in the fame country , amongst the fame people , and in the fame age , could not but be attended with danger . Suetonius , Suetonius , a writer contemporary with Tacitus , defcribing the [ 46 ]
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... amongst them by God ; and that he was appointed by God the fu- ture judge of the human fpecies ; that all who were folicitous to fecure to themselves happiness after death , ought to receive him as fuch , and to make profeffion of their ...
... amongst them by God ; and that he was appointed by God the fu- ture judge of the human fpecies ; that all who were folicitous to fecure to themselves happiness after death , ought to receive him as fuch , and to make profeffion of their ...
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