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... fuch antecedent improbability as no teftimony can furmount . And for the purpose of maintaining this af fertion , we contend , that the incredibility of miracles related to have been wrought in attestation of a meffage from God , convey ...
... fuch antecedent improbability as no teftimony can furmount . And for the purpose of maintaining this af fertion , we contend , that the incredibility of miracles related to have been wrought in attestation of a meffage from God , convey ...
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... fuch event to have taken place . Here the affertion is contrary to ex- perience properly fo called ; and this is a contrariety which no evidence can furmount . It matters nothing , whether the fact be of a miraculous nature or not . But ...
... fuch event to have taken place . Here the affertion is contrary to ex- perience properly fo called ; and this is a contrariety which no evidence can furmount . It matters nothing , whether the fact be of a miraculous nature or not . But ...
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... fuch things not being ge- nerally experienced by others . I say " not generally ; " for to 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 ...
... fuch things not being ge- nerally experienced by others . I say " not generally ; " for to 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 ...
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... fuch , and would totally deftroy the use and purpose for which it was wrought . The force of experience as an objection to miracles is founded in the prefumption , either that the course of nature is invariable , 4 or or that , if it be ...
... fuch , and would totally deftroy the use and purpose for which it was wrought . The force of experience as an objection to miracles is founded in the prefumption , either that the course of nature is invariable , 4 or or that , if it be ...
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... 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 interruptions confequently fhould be con- fined to the experience of a ...
... 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 interruptions confequently fhould be con- fined to the experience of a ...
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