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... ftate of rewards and punishments , and teaching mankind how to prepare themselves for that state , is not in itself greater than the event , call it either probable or improbable , of the two following propositions either [ 4 ]
... ftate of rewards and punishments , and teaching mankind how to prepare themselves for that state , is not in itself greater than the event , call it either probable or improbable , of the two following propositions either [ 4 ]
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... ftate of existence should be destined by God for his human creation ; and , fecondly , that , being fo deftined , he fhould acquaint them with it . It is not ne- ceffary for our purpose that these propofi- tions be capable of proof , or ...
... ftate of existence should be destined by God for his human creation ; and , fecondly , that , being fo deftined , he fhould acquaint them with it . It is not ne- ceffary for our purpose that these propofi- tions be capable of proof , or ...
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... ftate concerning the fact in queftion , that no fuch thing was ever ex- perienced , or that universal experience is against it , is to affume the fubject of the controverfy . Now the improbability which arifes from the want ( for this ...
... ftate concerning the fact in queftion , that no fuch thing was ever ex- perienced , or that universal experience is against it , is to affume the fubject of the controverfy . Now the improbability which arifes from the want ( for this ...
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... ftate of the cafe to be probable ? Ought we not rather to expect , that fuch a Being , upon occafions of peculiar importance , may interrupt the order which he had appointed , yet , that such occafions fhould return feldom ; that these ...
... ftate of the cafe to be probable ? Ought we not rather to expect , that fuch a Being , upon occafions of peculiar importance , may interrupt the order which he had appointed , yet , that such occafions fhould return feldom ; that these ...
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... ftate , but from fudden burfts of violence at particular places , from the licence of the po- pulace , the rafhnefs of fome magiftrates and the negligence of others ; from the influence and inftigation of interested adverfaries , and ...
... ftate , but from fudden burfts of violence at particular places , from the licence of the po- pulace , the rafhnefs of fome magiftrates and the negligence of others ; from the influence and inftigation of interested adverfaries , and ...
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