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Page 126
... century did observe stated days of assembling . Our histories record the institution of the rite which we call the Lord's Supper , and a command to repeat , it in perpetual succession : we find , amongst the early Christians , the ...
... century did observe stated days of assembling . Our histories record the institution of the rite which we call the Lord's Supper , and a command to repeat , it in perpetual succession : we find , amongst the early Christians , the ...
Page 139
... centuries ago , set forth in the world a new system of religious opinions , founded upon certain extraordinary things which they re- lated of a wonderful who had ap- peared in Judea ; suppose it to be also suf- ficiently proved , that ...
... centuries ago , set forth in the world a new system of religious opinions , founded upon certain extraordinary things which they re- lated of a wonderful who had ap- peared in Judea ; suppose it to be also suf- ficiently proved , that ...
Page 149
... which is above all human power . " Eccles . Hist . 1. iii . c . 24. — The same consideration accounts also for the paucity of Christian writings in the first century of its era . probable , that emergences might draw from some of them 149.
... which is above all human power . " Eccles . Hist . 1. iii . c . 24. — The same consideration accounts also for the paucity of Christian writings in the first century of its era . probable , that emergences might draw from some of them 149.
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... preserved probably above a thousand * We have also many years * The Alexandrian manuscript , now in the British Mu- seum , was written probably in the fourth or fifth century . pro- ancient versions of these books , and some of 159.
... preserved probably above a thousand * We have also many years * The Alexandrian manuscript , now in the British Mu- seum , was written probably in the fourth or fifth century . pro- ancient versions of these books , and some of 159.
Page 164
... centuries . The learned reader need not be informed that I mean the epistle of Christ to Abgarus , king of Edessa , found at present in the work of Eusebius * , as a as a piece acknowledged by him , though not without considerable doubt ...
... centuries . The learned reader need not be informed that I mean the epistle of Christ to Abgarus , king of Edessa , found at present in the work of Eusebius * , as a as a piece acknowledged by him , though not without considerable doubt ...
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