The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation: Shewn from the State of Religion in the Antient Heathen World: Especially with Respect to the Knowledge and Worship of the One True God: a Rule of Moral Duty: and a State of Future Rewards and Punishments. To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Discourse on Natural and Revealed Religion. In Two Volumes, 1. köideAnthony Finley ... William Fry, printer., 1818 |
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... ligion in the Gentile world , with respect to that which lies . at the foundation of all religion , the knowledge and worship of the one true God , in opposition to idolatry and polythe- ism . 2dly , To consider what notions they had of ...
... ligion in the Gentile world , with respect to that which lies . at the foundation of all religion , the knowledge and worship of the one true God , in opposition to idolatry and polythe- ism . 2dly , To consider what notions they had of ...
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... ligion . And the same may be said of those Pagan philo- sophers who lived after Christianity had made some pro- gress in the world . Nor can the sufficiency of the light of Natural Reason , left merely to itself , without the aids of ...
... ligion . And the same may be said of those Pagan philo- sophers who lived after Christianity had made some pro- gress in the world . Nor can the sufficiency of the light of Natural Reason , left merely to itself , without the aids of ...
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... ligion . If there have been people among whom scarce any traces of Religion can be found , yet still they have faculties , which , if duly improved , render them capable of being in- structed in it . But who will undertake to instruct ...
... ligion . If there have been people among whom scarce any traces of Religion can be found , yet still they have faculties , which , if duly improved , render them capable of being in- structed in it . But who will undertake to instruct ...
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... ligion . And if so , it is reasonable to think , that whenever he formed man he put him at his first creation into an imme- diate capacity of answering this end of his being , and enter- ing on a life of Religion . Two suppositions may ...
... ligion . And if so , it is reasonable to think , that whenever he formed man he put him at his first creation into an imme- diate capacity of answering this end of his being , and enter- ing on a life of Religion . Two suppositions may ...
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... ligion , and the duties of morality . And the first of the human race , who came immediately out of the hands of God , must have had an authority this way , which none of those of succeeding generations , in the ordinary course of ...
... ligion , and the duties of morality . And the first of the human race , who came immediately out of the hands of God , must have had an authority this way , which none of those of succeeding generations , in the ordinary course of ...
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