Evidences of ChristianityJ. F. Dove, 1826 - 336 pages |
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... question lies between this religion and none : for if the Christian religion be not credible , no one , with whom we have to do , will support the pretensions of any other . Suppose , then , the world we live in to have had a Creator ...
... question lies between this religion and none : for if the Christian religion be not credible , no one , with whom we have to do , will support the pretensions of any other . Suppose , then , the world we live in to have had a Creator ...
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... question , that no such thing was ever experienced , or that universal experience is against it , is to assume the subject of the controversy . Now the improbability which arises from the want ( for this properly is a want , not a ...
... question , that no such thing was ever experienced , or that universal experience is against it , is to assume the subject of the controversy . Now the improbability which arises from the want ( for this properly is a want , not a ...
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... question whe- ther it be more improbable that the miracle should be true , or the testimony false : and this I think a fair ac- count of the controversy . But herein I remark a want of argumentative justice , that , in describing the ...
... question whe- ther it be more improbable that the miracle should be true , or the testimony false : and this I think a fair ac- count of the controversy . But herein I remark a want of argumentative justice , that , in describing the ...
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... question- ing the reality of any others ; it was pronouncing all other gods to be false , and all other worship vain . From the facility with which the polytheism of ancient nations admitted new objects of worship into the number of ...
... question- ing the reality of any others ; it was pronouncing all other gods to be false , and all other worship vain . From the facility with which the polytheism of ancient nations admitted new objects of worship into the number of ...
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... excited in the minds of the Jewish people ; which consternation for a season suspended every other contest . f Acts ix . 31 . + Acts xi . 19 . questions of public concern were canvassed and settled , whence CHRISTIANITY . 31.
... excited in the minds of the Jewish people ; which consternation for a season suspended every other contest . f Acts ix . 31 . + Acts xi . 19 . questions of public concern were canvassed and settled , whence CHRISTIANITY . 31.
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