A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France. By Richard Joseph Sulivan, ...T. Becket, 1794 |
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Page 37
... render venerable . Cast your eye upon the church of Rome , and ask yourself , whether her absurd pretensions to mi- raculous powers have not converted one half of her members to protestantism , and the other half to infidelity ? Neither ...
... render venerable . Cast your eye upon the church of Rome , and ask yourself , whether her absurd pretensions to mi- raculous powers have not converted one half of her members to protestantism , and the other half to infidelity ? Neither ...
Page 39
... render the detection unavoidable : all which circumstances are re-- quisite to produce a full confidence in human testimony . " " A miracle , " continues he , " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable ...
... render the detection unavoidable : all which circumstances are re-- quisite to produce a full confidence in human testimony . " " A miracle , " continues he , " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable ...
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... rendered con- temptible a system , wnich gives to virtue its sweetest hopes , to impenitent vice its greatest fears , and to true penitence its best consolation ; which restrains even the least approaches to guilt , and yet makes those ...
... rendered con- temptible a system , wnich gives to virtue its sweetest hopes , to impenitent vice its greatest fears , and to true penitence its best consolation ; which restrains even the least approaches to guilt , and yet makes those ...
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... rendered unto according to his deeds . " * The predesti- narian , consequently , abuses himself , when he conceives he is a being perfectly passive , pre- decreed to eternal happiness ; or utterly dead in sin , and incapable of working ...
... rendered unto according to his deeds . " * The predesti- narian , consequently , abuses himself , when he conceives he is a being perfectly passive , pre- decreed to eternal happiness ; or utterly dead in sin , and incapable of working ...
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... render that judgment unfavourable . Would not he be a bold surgeon whose hand would not tremble , when he per- formed an operation upon his own person ? And would not he be equally as bold , who would not hesitate to pull off the ...
... render that judgment unfavourable . Would not he be a bold surgeon whose hand would not tremble , when he per- formed an operation upon his own person ? And would not he be equally as bold , who would not hesitate to pull off the ...
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