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... prove , that mankind stood in need of a revelation , because I have met with no serious person who thinks that , even under the Christian revelation , we have too much light , or any degree of assurance , which is superfluous . I de ...
... prove , that mankind stood in need of a revelation , because I have met with no serious person who thinks that , even under the Christian revelation , we have too much light , or any degree of assurance , which is superfluous . I de ...
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... prove the reality of miracles . That reality always must be proved by evidence . We assert only that in miracles adduced in support of revelation , there is not any such antecedent improbability as no testimony can surmount . And for ...
... prove the reality of miracles . That reality always must be proved by evidence . We assert only that in miracles adduced in support of revelation , there is not any such antecedent improbability as no testimony can surmount . And for ...
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... proves three things : 1st , that the Founder of the institution was put to death ; 2dly , that in the same country in which he was put to death , the religion , after a short check , broke out again and spread ; that it so spread , as ...
... proves three things : 1st , that the Founder of the institution was put to death ; 2dly , that in the same country in which he was put to death , the religion , after a short check , broke out again and spread ; that it so spread , as ...
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... proves that a morality , more pure and strict than was ordinary , prevailed at that time in Christian societies . And to me it appears , that we are autho- rized to carry this testimony back to the age of the apostles ; because it is ...
... proves that a morality , more pure and strict than was ordinary , prevailed at that time in Christian societies . And to me it appears , that we are autho- rized to carry this testimony back to the age of the apostles ; because it is ...
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... proves that the characters and the discourse were already public . And the observation which these instances afford , is of equal validity for the purpose of the pre- sent argument , whoever were the authors of the his- tories . These ...
... proves that the characters and the discourse were already public . And the observation which these instances afford , is of equal validity for the purpose of the pre- sent argument , whoever were the authors of the his- tories . These ...
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