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... containing the accounts upon which the religion was founded .... 162 166 SECT . X. Formal Catalogues of authentic Scriptures were pub- lished ; in all which our present Gospels were included ...... 171 SECT . XI . The above propositions ...
... containing the accounts upon which the religion was founded .... 162 166 SECT . X. Formal Catalogues of authentic Scriptures were pub- lished ; in all which our present Gospels were included ...... 171 SECT . XI . The above propositions ...
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... contain a much greater amount of gross and glaring improbabilities than any equal portion of Scripture - history ; or perhaps even than all the Scripture - Narratives together . And yet all believe it ; because the improbability of its ...
... contain a much greater amount of gross and glaring improbabilities than any equal portion of Scripture - history ; or perhaps even than all the Scripture - Narratives together . And yet all believe it ; because the improbability of its ...
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... which are both fresh water . This is at variance not only with my own direct experience , but with the analogy of all that I have experienced . And moreover , you tell me that this salt water contains abundance of Annotations . 35.
... which are both fresh water . This is at variance not only with my own direct experience , but with the analogy of all that I have experienced . And moreover , you tell me that this salt water contains abundance of Annotations . 35.
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In Three Parts William Paley. you tell me that this salt water contains abundance of fish . Now I have even tried an experiment which refutes you . I have put fish of various kinds into vessels of salt water ; and it kills them , yet you ...
In Three Parts William Paley. you tell me that this salt water contains abundance of fish . Now I have even tried an experiment which refutes you . I have put fish of various kinds into vessels of salt water ; and it kills them , yet you ...
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... contain . The obscure and distant view of Christianity , which some of the heathen writers of that age had gained , and which a few passages in their remaining works incidentally discover to us , offers itself to our notice in the first ...
... contain . The obscure and distant view of Christianity , which some of the heathen writers of that age had gained , and which a few passages in their remaining works incidentally discover to us , offers itself to our notice in the first ...
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