A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three Parts |
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... the same motives , to new rules of conduct ..... 37 37 CHAPTER I. Evidence of the sufferings of the first propagators of Christianity , from the nature of the case ... 37 CHAPTER II . Evidence of the sufferings of the first.
... the same motives , to new rules of conduct ..... 37 37 CHAPTER I. Evidence of the sufferings of the first propagators of Christianity , from the nature of the case ... 37 CHAPTER II . Evidence of the sufferings of the first.
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... nature , -the great and the small - from the fibres of an insect's wing , to the structure of the most gigantic ... Nature and that of Revelation - which Providence has opened before us , but because it is both profitable and gratifying ...
... nature , -the great and the small - from the fibres of an insect's wing , to the structure of the most gigantic ... Nature and that of Revelation - which Providence has opened before us , but because it is both profitable and gratifying ...
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... nature are calculated to promote : suppose , nevertheless , almost the whole race , either by the imperfection of their faculties , the misfortune of their situation , or by the loss of some prior revelation , to want this knowledge ...
... nature are calculated to promote : suppose , nevertheless , almost the whole race , either by the imperfection of their faculties , the misfortune of their situation , or by the loss of some prior revelation , to want this knowledge ...
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... nature , they can be made out to be probable . It is enough that we are able to say concerning them , that they are not so violently improbable , so contradictory to what we already believe of the divine power and character , that ...
... nature , they can be made out to be probable . It is enough that we are able to say concerning them , that they are not so violently improbable , so contradictory to what we already believe of the divine power and character , that ...
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... nature , or a new experi- ment in natural philosophy ; because , when these are related , it is expected that , under the same circumstances , the same effect will follow universally ; and in proportion as this expec- tation is justly ...
... nature , or a new experi- ment in natural philosophy ; because , when these are related , it is expected that , under the same circumstances , the same effect will follow universally ; and in proportion as this expec- tation is justly ...
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