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In Three Parts ... William Paley. about feventy years after Chrift's death ; and the information to be drawn from it , fo far as it is connected with our argument , relates principally to two points : first , to the number of Chriftians ...
In Three Parts ... William Paley. about feventy years after Chrift's death ; and the information to be drawn from it , fo far as it is connected with our argument , relates principally to two points : first , to the number of Chriftians ...
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... deaths of these men were martyrdoms in the strictest fense , that is to say , were fo voluntary , that it was in their power , at the time of pro- nouncing the sentence , to have averted the execution , by consenting to join in heathen ...
... deaths of these men were martyrdoms in the strictest fense , that is to say , were fo voluntary , that it was in their power , at the time of pro- nouncing the sentence , to have averted the execution , by consenting to join in heathen ...
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... death , and carrying on an account of the propagation of the religion , and of fome of the most eminent persons en- gaged in it , for a space of nearly thirty years . We have , what some may think still more original , a collection of ...
... death , and carrying on an account of the propagation of the religion , and of fome of the most eminent persons en- gaged in it , for a space of nearly thirty years . We have , what some may think still more original , a collection of ...
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... death , as a male- factor , at Jerufalem . This point at least will be granted , because it is no more than what Tacitus has recorded . They then pro- ceed to tell us , that the religion was , not- withstanding , fet forth at this fame ...
... death , as a male- factor , at Jerufalem . This point at least will be granted , because it is no more than what Tacitus has recorded . They then pro- ceed to tell us , that the religion was , not- withstanding , fet forth at this fame ...
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... death ? Could they hope to escape the dangers , in which he had pe- rished ? If they have perfecuted me , they will also perfecute you , was the warning of common sense . With this example before their eyes , they could not be without a ...
... death ? Could they hope to escape the dangers , in which he had pe- rished ? If they have perfecuted me , they will also perfecute you , was the warning of common sense . With this example before their eyes , they could not be without a ...
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