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... probable or not very im- probable that a revelation should be commu- nicated to mankind at all , in the fame de- gree is it probable or not very improbable that miracles fhould be wrought . There- fore , when miracles are related to ...
... probable or not very im- probable that a revelation should be commu- nicated to mankind at all , in the fame de- gree is it probable or not very improbable that miracles fhould be wrought . There- fore , when miracles are related to ...
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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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... probable . It is enough that we are able to say concerning . them , that they are not so violently impro- bable , fo contradictory to what we already believe of the Divine power and character , that either the propofitions themselves ...
... probable . It is enough that we are able to say concerning . them , that they are not so violently impro- bable , fo contradictory to what we already believe of the Divine power and character , that either the propofitions themselves ...
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... 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 interruptions ...
... 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 interruptions ...
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... probable that the miracle fhould be true , or the teftimony false ; and this I think a fair account of the controverfy . But herein I remark a want of argumentative juftice , that , in of in describing the improbability of miracles , he ...
... probable that the miracle fhould be true , or the teftimony false ; and this I think a fair account of the controverfy . But herein I remark a want of argumentative juftice , that , in of in describing the improbability of miracles , he ...
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