A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian ReligionJ. Dodsley, 1776 - 191 páginas |
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... man of good fenfe , whofe fenfe has been altogether employed on other fubjects ; but if any one will give himself the trouble to examine it with accuracy and candor , he will plainly fee that with [ 6 ] rived from a fupernatural origin; ...
... man of good fenfe , whofe fenfe has been altogether employed on other fubjects ; but if any one will give himself the trouble to examine it with accuracy and candor , he will plainly fee that with [ 6 ] rived from a fupernatural origin; ...
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... give a fanction to their laws , and to enforce the practice of virtue for the benefit of mankind in the prefent life : this alone feems to have been their end , and a me- ritorious end it was ; but Chrifti- anity not only operates more ...
... give a fanction to their laws , and to enforce the practice of virtue for the benefit of mankind in the prefent life : this alone feems to have been their end , and a me- ritorious end it was ; but Chrifti- anity not only operates more ...
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... give it was fo understood in the earliest ages : but whether this union does , or does not imply equality , or whether it fubfifts in general , or only in particular circumstances , we are not informed , and therefore on thefe questions ...
... give it was fo understood in the earliest ages : but whether this union does , or does not imply equality , or whether it fubfifts in general , or only in particular circumstances , we are not informed , and therefore on thefe questions ...
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... give no credit to the re- lation of these facts ; but I will prove it from facts , which cannot be difputed ; for inftance , he is the only founder of a religion in the history of mankind , which is to- tally unconnected with all human ...
... give no credit to the re- lation of these facts ; but I will prove it from facts , which cannot be difputed ; for inftance , he is the only founder of a religion in the history of mankind , which is to- tally unconnected with all human ...
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... give them ; so far from being in- cited to destroy their enemies , that they are commanded to love them , and to ferve them to the utmost of their power . If chriftian na- tions therefore were nations of christians , all war would be im ...
... give them ; so far from being in- cited to destroy their enemies , that they are commanded to love them , and to ferve them to the utmost of their power . If chriftian na- tions therefore were nations of christians , all war would be im ...
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Página 82 - For we have power over the mind's eye, as well as over the body's to shut it against the strongest rays of truth and religion, whenever they become painful to us ; and to open it again to the faint glimmerings of scepticism and infidelity, when we " love darkness rather than light, because our deeds are evil.
Página 175 - ... has no more to do, but to acquiefce in its doctrines, and therefore is never fo ill employed, as when fhe pretends to accommodate them to her own ideas of rectitude and truth.
Página 53 - Valour, for inftance, or a&ive courage, is for the moft part conftitutional and therefore can have no more claim to moral merit, than wit, beauty, health, ftrength, or any other endowment of the mind or body, and fo far is it from producing any falutary...
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