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... amongst the common people; to form in the heart of the country societies professing their tenets; to provide for the order, instruction and permanency of these societies; nor did they enjoin their followers to withdraw themselves from ...
... amongst the common people; to form in the heart of the country societies professing their tenets; to provide for the order, instruction and permanency of these societies; nor did they enjoin their followers to withdraw themselves from ...
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... amongst the intelligent part of the heathen public. It is by no means true that unbelievers are usually tolerant. They are not disposed (and why should they?) to endanger the present state of filings, by suffering a religion of which ...
... amongst the intelligent part of the heathen public. It is by no means true that unbelievers are usually tolerant. They are not disposed (and why should they?) to endanger the present state of filings, by suffering a religion of which ...
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... amongst them, may be gathered from two eminent and uncontested examples. The younger Pliny, polished as he was by all the literature of that soft and elegant period, could gravely pronounce this monstrous judgment: — “Those who ...
... amongst them, may be gathered from two eminent and uncontested examples. The younger Pliny, polished as he was by all the literature of that soft and elegant period, could gravely pronounce this monstrous judgment: — “Those who ...
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... amongst the same people, and in the same age, could not but be attended with danger. Suetonius, a writer contemporary with Tacitus, describing the transactions of the same reign, uses these words: “Affecti suppliciis Christiani genus ...
... amongst the same people, and in the same age, could not but be attended with danger. Suetonius, a writer contemporary with Tacitus, describing the transactions of the same reign, uses these words: “Affecti suppliciis Christiani genus ...
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... amongst them by God; and that he was appointed by God the future judge of the human species; that all who were solicitous to secure to themselves happiness after death, ought to receive him as such, and to make profession of their ...
... amongst them by God; and that he was appointed by God the future judge of the human species; that all who were solicitous to secure to themselves happiness after death, ought to receive him as such, and to make profession of their ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER I | |
CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER IV | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER IX | |
CHAPTER IX | |
The Scriptures were in very early Times collected | |
Were publicly read and expounded in the religious | |
They were received by ancient Christians | |
The four Gospels the Acts of the Apostles thirteen | |
Formal Catalogues of authentic Scriptures were | |
CHAPTER I | |
CHAPTER I | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VI | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER VIII | |
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