| Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...stood, and gradually dis!—peared. This explains Justin Martyr s severity. — ENGLISH CHURCHMAN. only be derived from our ignorance of remote antiquity,...incapacity to form an adequate judgment of the divine economy. These objections were eagerly embraced and as petulantly urged by the vain science of the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...against the authority of Moses and the prophets, which too readily present themselves to the sceptical mind; though they can only be derived from our ignorance...incapacity to form an adequate judgment of the divine economy.* These objections were eagerly embraced, and as petulantly urged, by the vain science of the... | |
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