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... establish are thefe : I. That there is fatisfactory evidence that many , profeffing to be original witneffes of the Chriftian miracles , paffed their lives in labours , dangers and fufferings , voluntarily undergone in atteftation of ...
... establish are thefe : I. That there is fatisfactory evidence that many , profeffing to be original witneffes of the Chriftian miracles , paffed their lives in labours , dangers and fufferings , voluntarily undergone in atteftation of ...
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... establish- ment . The one was nothing more than what it would be , in Popifh countries , to add a faint to the calendar ; the other was to abolish and tread under foot the calendar itself . Secondly , it ought also to be confidered ...
... establish- ment . The one was nothing more than what it would be , in Popifh countries , to add a faint to the calendar ; the other was to abolish and tread under foot the calendar itself . Secondly , it ought also to be confidered ...
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... established form . See paffages to this purpofe , collected from their works by Dr. Clarke , Nat . and Rev. Rel . p . 180 , ed . v . Except Socrates , they all thought it wifer to comply with the laws than to contend . that that this ...
... established form . See paffages to this purpofe , collected from their works by Dr. Clarke , Nat . and Rev. Rel . p . 180 , ed . v . Except Socrates , they all thought it wifer to comply with the laws than to contend . that that this ...
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... established . The ancient religion of a country has always many votaries , and sometimes not the fewer because its origin is hidden in remoteness and obfcurity . Men have a natural vene- ration for antiquity , efpecially in matters of ...
... established . The ancient religion of a country has always many votaries , and sometimes not the fewer because its origin is hidden in remoteness and obfcurity . Men have a natural vene- ration for antiquity , efpecially in matters of ...
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... 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 ]
... 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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