Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles |
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Page 126
... century did observe stated days of assembling . Our histories record the institution of the rite which we call the Lord's Supper , and a command to repeat it in perpetual succession : we find , amongst the early Christians , the ...
... century did observe stated days of assembling . Our histories record the institution of the rite which we call the Lord's Supper , and a command to repeat it in perpetual succession : we find , amongst the early Christians , the ...
Page 139
... centuries ago , set forth in the world a new system of religious opi- nions , founded upon certain extraordinary things which they related of a wonderful person who had appeared in Judea ; sup- pose it to be also sufficiently proved ...
... centuries ago , set forth in the world a new system of religious opi- nions , founded upon certain extraordinary things which they related of a wonderful person who had appeared in Judea ; sup- pose it to be also sufficiently proved ...
Page 149
... human power . " Eccles . Hist . 1. iii . c . 24. The same consideration accounts also for the paucity of Christian writings in the first century of its æra . probable , probable , that emergencies might draw from some of them. 149.
... human power . " Eccles . Hist . 1. iii . c . 24. The same consideration accounts also for the paucity of Christian writings in the first century of its æra . probable , probable , that emergencies might draw from some of them. 149.
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... probably above a thousand years * . We have also many * The Alexandrian manuscript , now in the British Museum , was written probably in the fourth or fifth century : antient antient versions of these books , and some of them. 159.
... probably above a thousand years * . We have also many * The Alexandrian manuscript , now in the British Museum , was written probably in the fourth or fifth century : antient antient versions of these books , and some of them. 159.
Page 164
... centuries . The learned rea- der need not be informed that I mean the epistle of Christ to Abgarus , King of Edessa , found at present in the work of Eusebius * , as a peice acknowledged by him , though not without considerable doubt ...
... centuries . The learned rea- der need not be informed that I mean the epistle of Christ to Abgarus , King of Edessa , found at present in the work of Eusebius * , as a peice acknowledged by him , though not without considerable doubt ...
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