Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles |
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... doubt by those who doubted concerning the other books of our present canon p . 269 SECT . IX . Our present Gospels were red by the adversaries of Christianity , as containing the accounts upon which the religion was founded SECT . X ...
... doubt by those who doubted concerning the other books of our present canon p . 269 SECT . IX . Our present Gospels were red by the adversaries of Christianity , as containing the accounts upon which the religion was founded SECT . X ...
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... doubts concerning the truth of the popular creed , or even avowing their dis- belief of it . These philosophers did not go about from place to place to collect proselytes from amongst the common people ; to form in the heart of the ...
... doubts concerning the truth of the popular creed , or even avowing their dis- belief of it . These philosophers did not go about from place to place to collect proselytes from amongst the common people ; to form in the heart of the ...
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... DOUBT , whatever it was that they confessed , that contumacy and inflexible obstinacy ought to be punished . " His master , Trajan , a mild and accomplished prince , went , never- theless , no farther in his sentiments of moderation and ...
... DOUBT , whatever it was that they confessed , that contumacy and inflexible obstinacy ought to be punished . " His master , Trajan , a mild and accomplished prince , went , never- theless , no farther in his sentiments of moderation and ...
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... doubt how he was to act , his silence concerning any subsisting law upon the subject , his requesting the emperor's rescript , and the emperor , agreably to his request , propounding a rule for his direc- tion , without reference to any ...
... doubt how he was to act , his silence concerning any subsisting law upon the subject , his requesting the emperor's rescript , and the emperor , agreably to his request , propounding a rule for his direc- tion , without reference to any ...
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... , I think , correctly , such as I have stated them in the preceding chapters , there cannot much doubt remain upon our minds , but that a number of persons at that time vista time appeared in the world , publicly ad- vancing an.
... , I think , correctly , such as I have stated them in the preceding chapters , there cannot much doubt remain upon our minds , but that a number of persons at that time vista time appeared in the world , publicly ad- vancing an.
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