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... authority of our Hiflorical Scrip- tures CHA P. IX . p . 142 Of the Authenticity of the Hiftorical Scriptures , in Eleven Sections P. 168 SECT . I. Quotations of the Hiflorical Scriptures by ancient Chriflian writers P. 183 SECT . SECT ...
... authority of our Hiflorical Scrip- tures CHA P. IX . p . 142 Of the Authenticity of the Hiftorical Scriptures , in Eleven Sections P. 168 SECT . I. Quotations of the Hiflorical Scriptures by ancient Chriflian writers P. 183 SECT . SECT ...
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... authority or protection , could exe- cute their million with perfonal ease and fafety . Let us next enquire what might reason- ably be expected by the preachers of Chris- tianity when they turned themselves to the heathen public . Now ...
... authority or protection , could exe- cute their million with perfonal ease and fafety . Let us next enquire what might reason- ably be expected by the preachers of Chris- tianity when they turned themselves to the heathen public . Now ...
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... authority of government . Add to which , that the religious systems of those times , however ill fupported by evidence , had been long established . The ancient religion of a country has always many votaries , and sometimes not the ...
... authority of government . Add to which , that the religious systems of those times , however ill fupported by evidence , had been long established . The ancient religion of a country has always many votaries , and sometimes not the ...
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... authority , but muft disgrace all the fettled religions of the world ? It was not to be imagined that he would endure with patience , that the religion of the emperor and of the flate fhould be ca- lumniated and borne down by a company ...
... authority , but muft disgrace all the fettled religions of the world ? It was not to be imagined that he would endure with patience , that the religion of the emperor and of the flate fhould be ca- lumniated and borne down by a company ...
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... 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 life , and his immediate difciples after his death , exerted themselves in ...
... 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 life , and his immediate difciples after his death , exerted themselves in ...
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