An Apology for Christianity: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Edward Gibbon Esq.; Author of the Declineand Fall of the Roman Empire |
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... tion . Perceiving however , that the two last chapters , the fifteenth in particular , of your very labori- ous and claffical history of the De- cline and Fall of the Roman em- pire , had made upon many an im- preffion not at all ...
... tion . Perceiving however , that the two last chapters , the fifteenth in particular , of your very labori- ous and claffical history of the De- cline and Fall of the Roman em- pire , had made upon many an im- preffion not at all ...
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... , we are a- greed , that the zeal of the Chri → tians was inflexible , neither death , nor life , nor principalities , nor pow ers , nor things prefent , nor things to come , come , could bend it into a fepara- tion from ( 6 )
... , we are a- greed , that the zeal of the Chri → tians was inflexible , neither death , nor life , nor principalities , nor pow ers , nor things prefent , nor things to come , come , could bend it into a fepara- tion from ( 6 )
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... tion from the love of God , which was in Chrift Jefus their Lord ; it was an inflexible obstinacy , in not blaf- pheming the name of Christ , which every where exposed them to per- fecution ; and which even your amiable and philofophic ...
... tion from the love of God , which was in Chrift Jefus their Lord ; it was an inflexible obstinacy , in not blaf- pheming the name of Christ , which every where exposed them to per- fecution ; and which even your amiable and philofophic ...
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... tion , and which pricked the Jews to the heart , bade the house of Ifrael know affuredly , that God had made that fame Jefus , whom they had crucified , both Lord and Chrift . I mean not to produce these inftances of apoftolic zeal , as ...
... tion , and which pricked the Jews to the heart , bade the house of Ifrael know affuredly , that God had made that fame Jefus , whom they had crucified , both Lord and Chrift . I mean not to produce these inftances of apoftolic zeal , as ...
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... tion has he built his belief ? This is often an intricate inquiry , includ- ing in it a vaft compass of human learning : A Bramin or aMandarin , who fhould obferve a miffionary attesting the truth of Chriftianity with his blood , would ...
... tion has he built his belief ? This is often an intricate inquiry , includ- ing in it a vaft compass of human learning : A Bramin or aMandarin , who fhould obferve a miffionary attesting the truth of Chriftianity with his blood , would ...
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