Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: Delivered in the Mercer Street Church, New York, January 21 to February 21, 1867, on the "Ely Foundation" of the Union Theological Seminary |
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... supernatural inter- ference ? " The question implies that it had an " origin , ” that is , a beginning at some time since man began to exist on the earth . It is not , as is implied in the question , coe- val with man . There was a time ...
... supernatural inter- ference ? " The question implies that it had an " origin , ” that is , a beginning at some time since man began to exist on the earth . It is not , as is implied in the question , coe- val with man . There was a time ...
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... supernatural revela- tion , and of determining the argument for it , to be made out only ac- cording to the laws of thought and action implanted in reason . " - Inst . Theol . , § 10 , quoted in Mansel , Limits of Religious Thought , p ...
... supernatural revela- tion , and of determining the argument for it , to be made out only ac- cording to the laws of thought and action implanted in reason . " - Inst . Theol . , § 10 , quoted in Mansel , Limits of Religious Thought , p ...
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... supernatural ; " for , ” said he , " things remote or long past are either not believed or forgotten ; whereas , those being fresh and new , and attended with all the circumstances of credibility , it should be expected that they would ...
... supernatural ; " for , ” said he , " things remote or long past are either not believed or forgotten ; whereas , those being fresh and new , and attended with all the circumstances of credibility , it should be expected that they would ...
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... supernatural . In the early ages of the world the relation of a supernatural event did nothing to im- pair the general credit of the history , and the record of such an event was received with as little skepticism as a statement in ...
... supernatural . In the early ages of the world the relation of a supernatural event did nothing to im- pair the general credit of the history , and the record of such an event was received with as little skepticism as a statement in ...
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... supernatural , " that is , the fact that " miracles " and the " supernatural " are re- counted there is to be regarded as undoubted proof that they are in a great degree " legendary ” —on the same level with the first portion of the ...
... supernatural , " that is , the fact that " miracles " and the " supernatural " are re- counted there is to be regarded as undoubted proof that they are in a great degree " legendary ” —on the same level with the first portion of the ...
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