Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles |
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... narrative of a fact is then only contrary to experience , when the fact is related to have existed at a time and place , at which time and place we being present did not perceive it to exist ; as if it should be asserted , that in a ...
... narrative of a fact is then only contrary to experience , when the fact is related to have existed at a time and place , at which time and place we being present did not perceive it to exist ; as if it should be asserted , that in a ...
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... narrative and observations thus : " But neither these exertions , nor his largesses to the people , nor his offerings to the gods , did away the infamous imputa- tion under which Nero lay of having or- dered the city to be set on fire ...
... narrative and observations thus : " But neither these exertions , nor his largesses to the people , nor his offerings to the gods , did away the infamous imputa- tion under which Nero lay of having or- dered the city to be set on fire ...
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... narrative from his death , and carrying on an account of the propagation of the religion , and of some of the most ... narratives of facts , and by arguments and discourses built upon these facts , either referring to them , or ...
... narrative from his death , and carrying on an account of the propagation of the religion , and of some of the most ... narratives of facts , and by arguments and discourses built upon these facts , either referring to them , or ...
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... narrative , that at Philippi the apostle was beaten with many stripes , cast into prison , and there treated with rigour and indignity , " we find him , in a letter to a neighbouring church , reminding his con- verts , that , " after he ...
... narrative , that at Philippi the apostle was beaten with many stripes , cast into prison , and there treated with rigour and indignity , " we find him , in a letter to a neighbouring church , reminding his con- verts , that , " after he ...
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... narrative in all its parts ; and support the author's profession of being a contemporary of the person whose history he writes , and , throughout a material por- tion of his narrative , a companion . What the epistles of the apostles ...
... narrative in all its parts ; and support the author's profession of being a contemporary of the person whose history he writes , and , throughout a material por- tion of his narrative , a companion . What the epistles of the apostles ...
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