A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three Parts ..., Volume 2 |
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... effect will follow universally ; and in proportion as this expectation is justly entertained , the want of a corresponding experience negatives the hiftory . But to expect concerning a miracle that it should fucceed upon repetition , is ...
... effect will follow universally ; and in proportion as this expectation is justly entertained , the want of a corresponding experience negatives the hiftory . But to expect concerning a miracle that it should fucceed upon repetition , is ...
Page 10
... effects to causes inadequate to the purpose , or to caufes of the operation of which we have no experience . Of what causes , we may ask , and of what effects does the objection speak ? If it be answered that , when we afcribe the cure ...
... effects to causes inadequate to the purpose , or to caufes of the operation of which we have no experience . Of what causes , we may ask , and of what effects does the objection speak ? If it be answered that , when we afcribe the cure ...
Page 11
... effects to fuch causes . We perceive no virtue or energy in thefe things more than in other things of the fame kind . They are merely figns to connect the miracle with its end . The effect we afcribe fimply to the volition of the Deity ...
... effects to fuch causes . We perceive no virtue or energy in thefe things more than in other things of the fame kind . They are merely figns to connect the miracle with its end . The effect we afcribe fimply to the volition of the Deity ...
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... effect ; if it was at laft executed ; if I my- felf faw them , one after another , confent- ing to be racked , burnt , or strangled , rather than give up the truth of their account ; ftill , if Mr. Hume's rule be my guide , I am not to ...
... effect ; if it was at laft executed ; if I my- felf faw them , one after another , confent- ing to be racked , burnt , or strangled , rather than give up the truth of their account ; ftill , if Mr. Hume's rule be my guide , I am not to ...
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... effect to its ornament and magnificence . It abounded in festival fhows and folemnities , to which the com- mon people are greatly addicted ; and which were of a nature to engage them much more than any thing of that fort among us ...
... effect to its ornament and magnificence . It abounded in festival fhows and folemnities , to which the com- mon people are greatly addicted ; and which were of a nature to engage them much more than any thing of that fort among us ...
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