Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles |
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... opinions , but to those opinions upon which their hopes , their par- tialities , their pride , their consolation was founded . This people , with or without reason , had worked themselves into a per- Geoff Chr , suasion , that some ...
... opinions , but to those opinions upon which their hopes , their par- tialities , their pride , their consolation was founded . This people , with or without reason , had worked themselves into a per- Geoff Chr , suasion , that some ...
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... opinions , undoubting , and impatient of contradiction . They clung to this hope under every misfortune of their country , and with more tenacity as their dangers or calamities increased . Exclusren To find therefore that expectations ...
... opinions , undoubting , and impatient of contradiction . They clung to this hope under every misfortune of their country , and with more tenacity as their dangers or calamities increased . Exclusren To find therefore that expectations ...
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... opinion , and does not proceed upon a change already taken place in the sen- timents of a country , will not allow , much less lead us , to suppose , that the first propagators of Christianity at Jerusalem and in Judea , with the ...
... opinion , and does not proceed upon a change already taken place in the sen- timents of a country , will not allow , much less lead us , to suppose , that the first propagators of Christianity at Jerusalem and in Judea , with the ...
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... opinion which an errand so novel and extraordinary could not fail of exciting . I can conceive that the teachers of Christianity might both fear and suffer much from these causes , without any * The best of the antient philosophers ...
... opinion which an errand so novel and extraordinary could not fail of exciting . I can conceive that the teachers of Christianity might both fear and suffer much from these causes , without any * The best of the antient philosophers ...
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... opinion ; an upstart religion , in a word , which was not content with its own authority , but must disgrace all the settled religions of the world ? It was not to be imagined that he would endure with patience , that the religion of ...
... opinion ; an upstart religion , in a word , which was not content with its own authority , but must disgrace all the settled religions of the world ? It was not to be imagined that he would endure with patience , that the religion of ...
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