An Apology for the Bible: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a Book Entitled The Age of Reason, Part the Second, Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous TheologyMessrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. Jones, J. Rice, H. Fitzpatrick, N. Kelly, and G. Folingsby, 1796 - 146 pages |
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... ignorance , fhackled by the chains of fuperftition , whilft you and a few others have enjoyed light and liberty , is a queftion I fubmit to the decifion of your readers . If you have made the best examination you can , and yet reject ...
... ignorance , fhackled by the chains of fuperftition , whilft you and a few others have enjoyed light and liberty , is a queftion I fubmit to the decifion of your readers . If you have made the best examination you can , and yet reject ...
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... ignorance , affuming the femblance of deep research and fuperior fagacity ; → I had rather refer it to an impropriety of judgment , respecting the manners , and mental acquirements , of human kind in the first ages of the world . Moft ...
... ignorance , affuming the femblance of deep research and fuperior fagacity ; → I had rather refer it to an impropriety of judgment , respecting the manners , and mental acquirements , of human kind in the first ages of the world . Moft ...
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... ignorant and ftupid pretender to authorfhip , feveral hundred years . after the death of Mofes . " - In this paffage the ut- moft force of your attack on the authority of the five books of Mofes is clearly stated . You are not the first ...
... ignorant and ftupid pretender to authorfhip , feveral hundred years . after the death of Mofes . " - In this paffage the ut- moft force of your attack on the authority of the five books of Mofes is clearly stated . You are not the first ...
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... ignorance of the writer ex- cepted ) ? What if I fhould admit , that Samuel , or Ezra , or fome other learned jew , compofed these books , from public records , many years after the death of Mofes ? Will it follow that there was no ...
... ignorance of the writer ex- cepted ) ? What if I fhould admit , that Samuel , or Ezra , or fome other learned jew , compofed these books , from public records , many years after the death of Mofes ? Will it follow that there was no ...
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... ignorant of the manner in which the commentators have answered this objection of Spinoza , without making the conceffion which I have made ; but I have no fcruple in admitting , that the paffage in question , confifting of nine verfes ...
... ignorant of the manner in which the commentators have answered this objection of Spinoza , without making the conceffion which I have made ; but I have no fcruple in admitting , that the paffage in question , confifting of nine verfes ...
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Page 112 - Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Page 106 - Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him; and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 83 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 95 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 107 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Page 18 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Page 99 - It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. 11. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Page 70 - And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 18 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 13 - A genuine book is that which was written by the person whose name it bears, as the author of it. An authentic book is that which relates matters of fact, as they really happened. A book may be genuine without being authentic ; and a book may be authentic, without being genuine.