Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles |
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... story , for which the first propagators of Christianity suffered , was miraculous - .q CHAP . VII . p . 99 That it was in the main the story which we have now proved by indirect considerations CHAP . VIII . P. 107 The same proved from ...
... story , for which the first propagators of Christianity suffered , was miraculous - .q CHAP . VII . p . 99 That it was in the main the story which we have now proved by indirect considerations CHAP . VIII . P. 107 The same proved from ...
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... story or the evidence arose . I think that we are obliged ; not , perhaps to shew by positive accounts how it did , but by a probable hypothesis how it might so happen . The existence of the testimony is a phenomenon . The truth of the ...
... story or the evidence arose . I think that we are obliged ; not , perhaps to shew by positive accounts how it did , but by a probable hypothesis how it might so happen . The existence of the testimony is a phenomenon . The truth of the ...
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... story . This is perfectly incredible . To me it appears little less than certain , that , if the first announcing of the religion by the founder had not been followed up by the zeal and industry of his immediate disciples , the attempt ...
... story . This is perfectly incredible . To me it appears little less than certain , that , if the first announcing of the religion by the founder had not been followed up by the zeal and industry of his immediate disciples , the attempt ...
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... story upon which it is founded , and that no act of power , force , or authority , was concerned in its first success , I should con- clude , from the very nature and exigency of the case , that the author of the religion during his ...
... story upon which it is founded , and that no act of power , force , or authority , was concerned in its first success , I should con- clude , from the very nature and exigency of the case , that the author of the religion during his ...
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... correctness of single passages of it . If the whole story be not a novel , a romance ; the whole action a * 1 Cor . iv . et seq . + Acts iv . 3. 21. Acts v . 18. 40 . dream ; dream ; if Peter , and James , and Paul. 91.
... correctness of single passages of it . If the whole story be not a novel , a romance ; the whole action a * 1 Cor . iv . et seq . + Acts iv . 3. 21. Acts v . 18. 40 . dream ; dream ; if Peter , and James , and Paul. 91.
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