Letters to a Young Man, Part II: Occasioned by Mr. Evanson's Treatise on the Dissonance of the Four Generally Received EvangelistsJ. Johnson, 1793 - 172 pages |
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... miracles , if the evan- gelical history be only in the main true . For without this it was naturally impoffible that Christianity fhould have been received , as all history , facred and profane , fhews that it was , in the early ages ...
... miracles , if the evan- gelical history be only in the main true . For without this it was naturally impoffible that Christianity fhould have been received , as all history , facred and profane , fhews that it was , in the early ages ...
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... miracles contained in them can reasonably be ad- " mitted as real facts . " P. 6. " Prophecy , there- fore , " he adds , " is by far the moft fatisfactory , " and the only lafting , fupernatural evidence of the " truth of any revelation ...
... miracles contained in them can reasonably be ad- " mitted as real facts . " P. 6. " Prophecy , there- fore , " he adds , " is by far the moft fatisfactory , " and the only lafting , fupernatural evidence of the " truth of any revelation ...
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... miracles can be credible . If they be credible at all , their credi- bility may be ascertained by fufficient teftimony . If , as he says , miracles could only be defigned to excite attention till another kind of proof , viz . that of ...
... miracles can be credible . If they be credible at all , their credi- bility may be ascertained by fufficient teftimony . If , as he says , miracles could only be defigned to excite attention till another kind of proof , viz . that of ...
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... miracles , and that he died , and rofe from the dead ? What other evidence of the divine miffion of Chrift , or of the truth of Chrif- tianity , was wanting to perfons who really believed these facts ? Mr. Evanson may think that miracles ...
... miracles , and that he died , and rofe from the dead ? What other evidence of the divine miffion of Chrift , or of the truth of Chrif- tianity , was wanting to perfons who really believed these facts ? Mr. Evanson may think that miracles ...
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... miracles of Chrift and the Apostles depends upon the authenticity of the books of the New Tef- tament which contain the account of them ; and cer- tainly all our knowledge of thefe facts is derived from those books . But ftill our faith ...
... miracles of Chrift and the Apostles depends upon the authenticity of the books of the New Tef- tament which contain the account of them ; and cer- tainly all our knowledge of thefe facts is derived from those books . But ftill our faith ...
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