The Posthumous Works of Mr. Thomas Chubb: Containing, I. Remarks on the Scriptures. II. Observations on the Reverend Mr. Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses. III. The Author's Farewel to His Readers; Comprehending a Variety of Tracts, on the Most Important Subjects of Religion. With an Appendix, Including a Postscript to His Four Last Dissertations, More Particularly Relative to that on the History of Melchizedek. To the Whole is Prefixed, Some Account of the Author: Written by Himself, Volume 2 |
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Page 203
The multitude referred to have left no testimonies concerning those facts ; and
therefore , the case is the same to us as if they had not been spectators of them .
Witnesses without a testimony are in fact but so many mutes , and are not ...
The multitude referred to have left no testimonies concerning those facts ; and
therefore , the case is the same to us as if they had not been spectators of them .
Witnesses without a testimony are in fact but so many mutes , and are not ...
Page 207
And as it does not appear that a proper scrutiny ever was made , could well be
made , with regard to the facts in question , which yet seems necessary to have
been done , in order to render those facts more certain ; fo from hence it may
seem ...
And as it does not appear that a proper scrutiny ever was made , could well be
made , with regard to the facts in question , which yet seems necessary to have
been done , in order to render those facts more certain ; fo from hence it may
seem ...
Page 211
The Author's Farewel to His Readers; Comprehending a Variety of Tracts, on the
Most Important Subjects of Religion. With an Appendix, Thomas Chubb. credit of
those histories ; yet , surely , it weakens that credit , as the facts related in them ...
The Author's Farewel to His Readers; Comprehending a Variety of Tracts, on the
Most Important Subjects of Religion. With an Appendix, Thomas Chubb. credit of
those histories ; yet , surely , it weakens that credit , as the facts related in them ...
Page 220
Besides , the history itself , in which those facts are recorded , may have been
greatly corrupted and depraved , as it is allowed to have passed through very
bad bands , which is a confideration that ought to be taken into the case . There
may ...
Besides , the history itself , in which those facts are recorded , may have been
greatly corrupted and depraved , as it is allowed to have passed through very
bad bands , which is a confideration that ought to be taken into the case . There
may ...
Page 248
And tho ' facts are stubborn things , and there is no reasoning against them , that
is , when a thing plainly appears to be fact , then no reasoning nor argumentation
can possibly prove it to be otherwise ; yet every fact ought to be brought to a fair ...
And tho ' facts are stubborn things , and there is no reasoning against them , that
is , when a thing plainly appears to be fact , then no reasoning nor argumentation
can possibly prove it to be otherwise ; yet every fact ought to be brought to a fair ...
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