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... question lies between this religion and none: for, if the Christian religion be not credible, no one, with whom we have to do, will support the pretensions of any other. Suppose, then, the world we live in to have had a Creator; suppose ...
... question lies between this religion and none: for, if the Christian religion be not credible, no one, with whom we have to do, will support the pretensions of any other. Suppose, then, the world we live in to have had a Creator; suppose ...
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... question, that no such thing was ever experienced, or that universal experience is against it, is to assume the subject of the controversy. Now the improbability which arises from the want (for this properly is a want, not a ...
... question, that no such thing was ever experienced, or that universal experience is against it, is to assume the subject of the controversy. Now the improbability which arises from the want (for this properly is a want, not a ...
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... question whether it be more improbable that the miracle should be true, or the testimony false: and this I think a fair account of the controversy. But herein I remark a want of argumentative justice, that, in describing the ...
... question whether it be more improbable that the miracle should be true, or the testimony false: and this I think a fair account of the controversy. But herein I remark a want of argumentative justice, that, in describing the ...
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... questions of public concern were canvassed and settled, whence directions were sought, and teachers sent forth. The time of this tranquillity did not, however, continue long. Herod Agrippa, who bad lately acceded to the government of ...
... questions of public concern were canvassed and settled, whence directions were sought, and teachers sent forth. The time of this tranquillity did not, however, continue long. Herod Agrippa, who bad lately acceded to the government of ...
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... question, “Is the carpenter's son of Nazareth the person whom we are to receive and obey?” there was nothing but the miracles attributed to him by which his pretensions could be maintained for a moment. Every controversy and every question ...
... question, “Is the carpenter's son of Nazareth the person whom we are to receive and obey?” there was nothing but the miracles attributed to him by which his pretensions could be maintained for a moment. Every controversy and every question ...
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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