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Page 91
... infidel philosopher alleged our want of experience for miracles , and would have built his Deism on the assertion , that our variable and defective experience for the truth of testimony could never so outweigh our uniform experience ...
... infidel philosopher alleged our want of experience for miracles , and would have built his Deism on the assertion , that our variable and defective experience for the truth of testimony could never so outweigh our uniform experience ...
Page 158
... infidel ? I persist in distrusting the testimony . Am I a Christian ? Am I a Christian ? I rejoice in the 暑 strength of it ; but this very joy becomes matter of suspicion to a scrupulous inquirer . He feels something more than the ...
... infidel ? I persist in distrusting the testimony . Am I a Christian ? Am I a Christian ? I rejoice in the 暑 strength of it ; but this very joy becomes matter of suspicion to a scrupulous inquirer . He feels something more than the ...
Page 160
... never being questioned , are received as of established authority . It is striking to observe the perfect confidence with which an infidel will quote a pas- But sage from an ancient historian . He , perhaps 160 PRINCIPLES OF.
... never being questioned , are received as of established authority . It is striking to observe the perfect confidence with which an infidel will quote a pas- But sage from an ancient historian . He , perhaps 160 PRINCIPLES OF.
Page 164
... infidel ; been exulted in by many a sincere Christian ; and made to occupy a foremost place in many a book upon the evidences of our religion . Are we to forget all the while , that we are in actual possession of much stronger testimony ...
... infidel ; been exulted in by many a sincere Christian ; and made to occupy a foremost place in many a book upon the evidences of our religion . Are we to forget all the while , that we are in actual possession of much stronger testimony ...
Page 181
... infidel will still have something , behind which he can intrench himself ; and his last supposition , monstrous and unnatural as it is , may be , that the whole of written history is a laborious fabrication , sustained for many ages ...
... infidel will still have something , behind which he can intrench himself ; and his last supposition , monstrous and unnatural as it is , may be , that the whole of written history is a laborious fabrication , sustained for many ages ...
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