The Evidence of Christianity, Derived from Its Nature and ReceptionA. Finley, 1825 - 309 pages |
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Page iv
... minds unsettled , even of a class above that for which they are avow- edly written and designed . In fact , though there is just cause for believing that real religion never flourished more in any age or country than at the present time ...
... minds unsettled , even of a class above that for which they are avow- edly written and designed . In fact , though there is just cause for believing that real religion never flourished more in any age or country than at the present time ...
Page vi
... mind . success . Others , however , are differently constituted , and differently circumstanced . It strikes them at once , how much that is contradictory to the usual expe- rience of the world is involved in the Scripture his- tories ...
... mind . success . Others , however , are differently constituted , and differently circumstanced . It strikes them at once , how much that is contradictory to the usual expe- rience of the world is involved in the Scripture his- tories ...
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... mind and upon the happiness of their votaries very different . But as the moral state of different nations , independent of religion , is also unequal ; the purer morality and general superiority of the Gospel may , it is possible ...
... mind and upon the happiness of their votaries very different . But as the moral state of different nations , independent of religion , is also unequal ; the purer morality and general superiority of the Gospel may , it is possible ...
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... as Jesus exist , or no ? Antichristian writers do not seem to Epist . Lib . x . Ep . 91 . Ingens multitudo , multi omnis ætatis , utriusque sexûs . Pliny . have made up their mind upon this point . Some 20 ON THE ORIGIN OF.
... as Jesus exist , or no ? Antichristian writers do not seem to Epist . Lib . x . Ep . 91 . Ingens multitudo , multi omnis ætatis , utriusque sexûs . Pliny . have made up their mind upon this point . Some 20 ON THE ORIGIN OF.
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... mind one way or other . The religion may be an imposture , though Jesus did exist . But it must have been an imposture if he did not : if his name were merely ascribed , like those of Hercules or Bacchus , to adventures which never took ...
... mind one way or other . The religion may be an imposture , though Jesus did exist . But it must have been an imposture if he did not : if his name were merely ascribed , like those of Hercules or Bacchus , to adventures which never took ...
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