The Antiquity and Genuineness of the Gospels: Being a Hand-book of the Confirmatory Arguments in Support Thereof, with Some Prefatory Remarks on the Remote Sources of Modern UnbeliefW. H. Allen & Company, 1884 - 106 pages |
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... matters of religion , at all events , opinion commences with the many and thence goes up . Have not all the beliefs that have taken an extensive hold of the world ( Christianity itself not excepted ) come up from the masses instead of ...
... matters of religion , at all events , opinion commences with the many and thence goes up . Have not all the beliefs that have taken an extensive hold of the world ( Christianity itself not excepted ) come up from the masses instead of ...
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... matter of consequence , the more devoted to the pursuit of gain an age becomes , the less even its vices partake of the character of feeling — more selfish- ness , more hollowness , but less cruelty , brutality , bigotry , or love of ...
... matter of consequence , the more devoted to the pursuit of gain an age becomes , the less even its vices partake of the character of feeling — more selfish- ness , more hollowness , but less cruelty , brutality , bigotry , or love of ...
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... matters . 4th . That , as the decrease of faith ( even though admitted ) implies no argument against the religion itself , so the diminu- tion of believers is more apparent than actual , if real belief be the point at issue ; for it has ...
... matters . 4th . That , as the decrease of faith ( even though admitted ) implies no argument against the religion itself , so the diminu- tion of believers is more apparent than actual , if real belief be the point at issue ; for it has ...
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... matter ; it would then , no doubt , be in proportion to the celerity of the spread of the religion itself , which , in the case of the Christian religion , would by all accounts have been sufficiently rapid . But our present hypothesis ...
... matter ; it would then , no doubt , be in proportion to the celerity of the spread of the religion itself , which , in the case of the Christian religion , would by all accounts have been sufficiently rapid . But our present hypothesis ...
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... matter of course , take the fashionable opinion of the age , not so much state as assume it as indubitably the case , as much so as writers on a scientific subject would any of the most simple axioms which are intuitively evident . What ...
... matter of course , take the fashionable opinion of the age , not so much state as assume it as indubitably the case , as much so as writers on a scientific subject would any of the most simple axioms which are intuitively evident . What ...
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