An Apology for Christianity: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq; Author of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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... punish with death in the Christians of his province . We are agreed too , that the zeal of the Chriftians was intole- rant ; for it denounced tribulation and anguish upon every foul of man that did evil , of the few first , and alfo of ...
... punish with death in the Christians of his province . We are agreed too , that the zeal of the Chriftians was intole- rant ; for it denounced tribulation and anguish upon every foul of man that did evil , of the few first , and alfo of ...
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... Jews , who were animated by the fame hopes of temporal rewards , impelled by the fame fears of temporal punish- ments with the rest of mankind , fhould have been so fingular in their their conduct , as never to havé fiftened to the ( 29 )
... Jews , who were animated by the fame hopes of temporal rewards , impelled by the fame fears of temporal punish- ments with the rest of mankind , fhould have been so fingular in their their conduct , as never to havé fiftened to the ( 29 )
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... punish- ments of the infernal regions , as aniles fabulas : to the question , Quid fi poft mortem maneant animi ? they could not answer with Cicero and the philofophers , C4 Beatos effe because there was effe concedo ; a great ...
... punish- ments of the infernal regions , as aniles fabulas : to the question , Quid fi poft mortem maneant animi ? they could not answer with Cicero and the philofophers , C4 Beatos effe because there was effe concedo ; a great ...
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... punishment for the flagitious ; but this opinion was worn out of cre- dit , before the time of our Savi- our : the ... punish- ments confined to the writings of the philofophers , or the circles of the learned and polite ; for Cicero ...
... punishment for the flagitious ; but this opinion was worn out of cre- dit , before the time of our Savi- our : the ... punish- ments confined to the writings of the philofophers , or the circles of the learned and polite ; for Cicero ...
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... punishment , denounced in the Christian scheme against the wicked . Nor was it that kind of future life , which they wished : They would have been glad enough of an Elyfium , which could have admitted into it men , who had spent this ...
... punishment , denounced in the Christian scheme against the wicked . Nor was it that kind of future life , which they wished : They would have been glad enough of an Elyfium , which could have admitted into it men , who had spent this ...
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