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Page 11
... question whether it be more im- 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 ...
... question whether it be more im- 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 ...
Page 12
... question , miracles are alike incredible to him who is previously assured of the conftant agency a divine Being , and to him who believes that no fuch being exists in the universe . They are equally incredible , whether related to have ...
... question , miracles are alike incredible to him who is previously assured of the conftant agency a divine Being , and to him who believes that no fuch being exists in the universe . They are equally incredible , whether related to have ...
Page 109
... question , " is the carpenter's son of Nazareth the perfon whom we are to receive and obey ? " there was nothing but the miracles attributed to him , by which his pretenfions could be maintained for a moment . Every contro- verfy and ...
... question , " is the carpenter's son of Nazareth the perfon whom we are to receive and obey ? " there was nothing but the miracles attributed to him , by which his pretenfions could be maintained for a moment . Every contro- verfy and ...
Page 110
... question must presuppose thefe ; for , however fuch controverfies , when they did arife , might , and naturally would , be difcuffed upon their own grounds of ar- gumentation , without citing the miraculous evidence which had been ...
... question must presuppose thefe ; for , however fuch controverfies , when they did arife , might , and naturally would , be difcuffed upon their own grounds of ar- gumentation , without citing the miraculous evidence which had been ...
Page 112
... question , miraculous preten- fions , and miraculous pretenfions alone , were what they had to rely upon . That the original ftory was miraculous , is very fairly alfo inferred from the miracu- lous powers which were laid claim to by ...
... question , miraculous preten- fions , and miraculous pretenfions alone , were what they had to rely upon . That the original ftory was miraculous , is very fairly alfo inferred from the miracu- lous powers which were laid claim to by ...
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