A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three Parts |
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... never attempt to defend themselves against the objections to which they are exposed . The cause of this it is easy to perceive . Objections - not only plausible , but real , valid , and sometimes unanswerable objections may be brought ...
... never attempt to defend themselves against the objections to which they are exposed . The cause of this it is easy to perceive . Objections - not only plausible , but real , valid , and sometimes unanswerable objections may be brought ...
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... never designed to be believed as literally true , any more than Esop's Fables , though intended ( like them ) to convey some moral lessons . The Naturalists , on the contrary , maintain the general truth of the history , but explain the ...
... never designed to be believed as literally true , any more than Esop's Fables , though intended ( like them ) to convey some moral lessons . The Naturalists , on the contrary , maintain the general truth of the history , but explain the ...
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... never had reason to suspect that they would deceive me . I hear of persons who contra- dict and abuse them , but they are not such persons as I would wish to follow in any other matter of life , and therefore not in religion . I was ...
... never had reason to suspect that they would deceive me . I hear of persons who contra- dict and abuse them , but they are not such persons as I would wish to follow in any other matter of life , and therefore not in religion . I was ...
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... never man spake like this man ; ' - and that the Sacred Writers who record his teaching were not mad enthu- siasts , or crafty deceivers , but men who spoke in sincerity the words of truth and soberness which they learned from Him ...
... never man spake like this man ; ' - and that the Sacred Writers who record his teaching were not mad enthu- siasts , or crafty deceivers , but men who spoke in sincerity the words of truth and soberness which they learned from Him ...
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... never did , and never possibly can , take place in any savage tribe left wholly to themselves . All the nations of which we know any thing , that have risen from a savage to a civilized state , appear to have had the ad- vantage of the ...
... never did , and never possibly can , take place in any savage tribe left wholly to themselves . All the nations of which we know any thing , that have risen from a savage to a civilized state , appear to have had the ad- vantage of the ...
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