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... case alone , belongs what is called the love of the marvellous . I have never known it carry men further . Men do not fuffer perfecution from the love of the marvellous . indifferent nature we are fpeaking of , are moft vulgar errors ...
... case alone , belongs what is called the love of the marvellous . I have never known it carry men further . Men do not fuffer perfecution from the love of the marvellous . indifferent nature we are fpeaking of , are moft vulgar errors ...
Page 345
... reported to the apostles , they did not believe , we are told , for joy . This was natural , and is agreeable to experience . VII , We have laid out of the case those accounts accounts which require no more than a fimple affent ; [ 345 ]
... reported to the apostles , they did not believe , we are told , for joy . This was natural , and is agreeable to experience . VII , We have laid out of the case those accounts accounts which require no more than a fimple affent ; [ 345 ]
Page 346
... case those which come merely in affirm- ance of opinions already formed . This last circumftance is of the utmost importance to notice well . It has long been obferved , that Popish miracles happen in Popish coun- tries ; that they make ...
... case those which come merely in affirm- ance of opinions already formed . This last circumftance is of the utmost importance to notice well . It has long been obferved , that Popish miracles happen in Popish coun- tries ; that they make ...
Page 350
... case of what are called pious frauds ; but it is a case , I apprehend , which takes place folely in fupport of a perfuafion already established . At least it does not hold of the apoftolical hiftory . If the apoftles did not believe the ...
... case of what are called pious frauds ; but it is a case , I apprehend , which takes place folely in fupport of a perfuafion already established . At least it does not hold of the apoftolical hiftory . If the apoftles did not believe the ...
Page 352
... cases , how- ever , in which the poffibility of this delufion exifts , are divided from the cafes in which it does not exist , by many and those not obfcure marks . They are , for the most part , cafes of visions or voices . The ob ...
... cases , how- ever , in which the poffibility of this delufion exifts , are divided from the cafes in which it does not exist , by many and those not obfcure marks . They are , for the most part , cafes of visions or voices . The ob ...
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