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... argument is alledged . We do not as- fume the attributes of the Deity , or the ex- istence of a future state , in order to prove the reality of miracles . That reality always must be proved by evidence . We affert only , that in ...
... argument is alledged . We do not as- fume the attributes of the Deity , or the ex- istence of a future state , in order to prove the reality of miracles . That reality always must be proved by evidence . We affert only , that in ...
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... arguments drawn from the light of nature , they can be made out to be probable . It is enough that we are able to say concerning . them , that they are not so violently impro- bable , fo contradictory to what we already believe of the ...
... arguments drawn from the light of nature , they can be made out to be probable . It is enough that we are able to say concerning . them , that they are not so violently impro- bable , fo contradictory to what we already believe of the ...
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... argument , and , if admitted , is a bar to every proof , and to all future reasoning upon the fubject , it may be neceffary , before we proceed farther , to examine the principle upon which it pro- feffes to be founded : which principle ...
... argument , and , if admitted , is a bar to every proof , and to all future reasoning upon the fubject , it may be neceffary , before we proceed farther , to examine the principle upon which it pro- feffes to be founded : which principle ...
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... argument from experience it is faid , that , when we advance accounts of miracles , we affign ef- fects without caufes , or we attribute effects to causes inadequate to the purpose , or to caufes of the operation of which we have no ...
... argument from experience it is faid , that , when we advance accounts of miracles , we affign ef- fects without caufes , or we attribute effects to causes inadequate to the purpose , or to caufes of the operation of which we have no ...
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... argument by fome examples of this kind . I hope in a proper place to fhew that none of them reach the ftrength or circumftances of the Christian evidence . In these , however , confifts the weight of his objection . In the principle ...
... argument by fome examples of this kind . I hope in a proper place to fhew that none of them reach the ftrength or circumftances of the Christian evidence . In these , however , confifts the weight of his objection . In the principle ...
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