A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three Parts ..., Volume 2 |
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... danger of the enter- prife . These Thirdly , it ought also to be confidered , * The best of the ancient philofophers , Plato , Cicero , and Epictetus , allowed , or rather enjoined , men to wor- fhip the gods of the country , and in the ...
... danger of the enter- prife . These Thirdly , it ought also to be confidered , * The best of the ancient philofophers , Plato , Cicero , and Epictetus , allowed , or rather enjoined , men to wor- fhip the gods of the country , and in the ...
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In Three Parts ... William Paley. that this danger proceeded not merely from foleinn acts and public refolutions of the ftate , but from fudden burfts of violence at particular places , from the licence of the po- pulace , the rafhnefs ...
In Three Parts ... William Paley. that this danger proceeded not merely from foleinn acts and public refolutions of the ftate , but from fudden burfts of violence at particular places , from the licence of the po- pulace , the rafhnefs ...
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... dangers , and fufferings , voluntarily under- gone in atteftation of the accounts which they delivered , and folely in confequence of their belief of thofe accounts ; and that they alfo fubmitted from the fame motive to new rules of ...
... dangers , and fufferings , voluntarily under- gone in atteftation of the accounts which they delivered , and folely in confequence of their belief of thofe accounts ; and that they alfo fubmitted from the fame motive to new rules of ...
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... of his followers to establish his religion , in the fame country , amongst the fame people , and in the fame age , could not but be attended with danger . Suetonius , Suetonius , a writer contemporary with Tacitus , defcribing the [ 46 ]
... of his followers to establish his religion , in the fame country , amongst the fame people , and in the fame age , could not but be attended with danger . Suetonius , Suetonius , a writer contemporary with Tacitus , defcribing the [ 46 ]
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... be fuch . " All which demon- ftrates , that the profeffion of Christianity was at that time ( in that country at least ) attended with fear and danger : and yet this E 2 took took place without any edict from the Roman fovereign , [ 5 ]
... be fuch . " All which demon- ftrates , that the profeffion of Christianity was at that time ( in that country at least ) attended with fear and danger : and yet this E 2 took took place without any edict from the Roman fovereign , [ 5 ]
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