Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles |
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... institution , his associates and immediate followers , acted the part which the proposition imputes to them : secondly , that they did so in attestation of the miraculous history recorded in our Scriptures , and solely in consequence of ...
... institution , his associates and immediate followers , acted the part which the proposition imputes to them : secondly , that they did so in attestation of the miraculous history recorded in our Scriptures , and solely in consequence of ...
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... institution , and of those who were joined with him in the undertak- ing , or we are driven upon the strange sup- position , that , although they might lie by , others would take it up ; although they were quiet and silent , other ...
... institution , and of those who were joined with him in the undertak- ing , or we are driven upon the strange sup- position , that , although they might lie by , others would take it up ; although they were quiet and silent , other ...
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... institution above the rest of the world , was to advance those whom they despised to an equality with themselves , in those very points of comparison in which they most valued their own distinction , could be no very pleasing discovery ...
... institution above the rest of the world , was to advance those whom they despised to an equality with themselves , in those very points of comparison in which they most valued their own distinction , could be no very pleasing discovery ...
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William Paley. The character of the new institution was , in other respects also , ungrateful to Jewish habits and principles . Their own religion was in a high degree technical . Even the enlightened Jew placed a great deal of stress ...
William Paley. The character of the new institution was , in other respects also , ungrateful to Jewish habits and principles . Their own religion was in a high degree technical . Even the enlightened Jew placed a great deal of stress ...
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... . We may be allowed to presume , that the institution which they preached to others , they conformed to in their own persons ; because this is no more than what every teacher of a new religion religion both does , and must do , in order.
... . We may be allowed to presume , that the institution which they preached to others , they conformed to in their own persons ; because this is no more than what every teacher of a new religion religion both does , and must do , in order.
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