Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles |
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Page 13
... produce a false result , he is sure that there must be some mistake in the demonstration . this way with what Hume's theorem . If twelve If twelve men , whose probity and good sense I had long known , should seriously and ...
... produce a false result , he is sure that there must be some mistake in the demonstration . this way with what Hume's theorem . If twelve If twelve men , whose probity and good sense I had long known , should seriously and ...
Page 17
... produce any particular testi- mony to the activity and sufferings which compose VOL . I C compose the subject of our first assertion , it will. 17 their belief of those accounts; and that they also submitted, from the same motives, to ...
... produce any particular testi- mony to the activity and sufferings which compose VOL . I C compose the subject of our first assertion , it will. 17 their belief of those accounts; and that they also submitted, from the same motives, to ...
Page 35
... produce was very considerable . It is a change which we do not easily estimate , because , our- selves and all about us being habituated to the institution from our infancy , it is what we neither experience nor observe . After men ...
... produce was very considerable . It is a change which we do not easily estimate , because , our- selves and all about us being habituated to the institution from our infancy , it is what we neither experience nor observe . After men ...
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... produce this state of things within this time . Se- condly , to a point which hath been already noticed , and which I think of importance to be observed , namely , the sufferings to which Christians were exposed , without any public ...
... produce this state of things within this time . Se- condly , to a point which hath been already noticed , and which I think of importance to be observed , namely , the sufferings to which Christians were exposed , without any public ...
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... producing an effect upon remote generations . In forgeries which do not appear till many ages after that to which they pretend to belong , it is possible that some contrivance of that sort may take place ; but in no others can it be ...
... producing an effect upon remote generations . In forgeries which do not appear till many ages after that to which they pretend to belong , it is possible that some contrivance of that sort may take place ; but in no others can it be ...
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