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... confidered by the ad- versaries of Christianity , as containing the accounts upon which the religion was founded SECT . X. Formal catalogues of authentic Scriptures were published , in all which our prefent Gospels were in- cluded p ...
... confidered by the ad- versaries of Christianity , as containing the accounts upon which the religion was founded SECT . X. Formal catalogues of authentic Scriptures were published , in all which our prefent Gospels were in- cluded p ...
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... , in the world . It will not eafily be credited that a design , so bold as this was , could in any age be attempted to be carried into exe- cution with impunity . " For For it ought to be confidered , that this was [ 28 ]
... , in the world . It will not eafily be credited that a design , so bold as this was , could in any age be attempted to be carried into exe- cution with impunity . " For For it ought to be confidered , that this was [ 28 ]
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... the other was to abolish and tread under foot the calendar itself . Secondly , it ought also to be confidered , that this was not the cafe of philofophers pro- propounding in their books , or in their schools , [ 29 ]
... the other was to abolish and tread under foot the calendar itself . Secondly , it ought also to be confidered , that this was not the cafe of philofophers pro- propounding in their books , or in their schools , [ 29 ]
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... confidered , * The best of the ancient philofophers , Plato , Cicero , and Epictetus , allowed , or rather enjoined , men to wor- fhip the gods of the country , and in the established form . See paffages to this purpofe , collected from ...
... confidered , * The best of the ancient philofophers , Plato , Cicero , and Epictetus , allowed , or rather enjoined , men to wor- fhip the gods of the country , and in the established form . See paffages to this purpofe , collected from ...
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... confi- dered religion entirely as an affair of state , as much under the tuition of the magif- trate as any other part of the police . The religion of that age was not merely allied to the state it was incorporated into it . Many.of its ...
... confi- dered religion entirely as an affair of state , as much under the tuition of the magif- trate as any other part of the police . The religion of that age was not merely allied to the state it was incorporated into it . Many.of its ...
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