The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... Christian religion : A variety of paf- fages from the antient heathen writers adduced to shew how far natural re- ligion had enlightened mankind before revelation took place - - 176 CXIV . Obfervations upon these several instances of ...
... Christian religion : A variety of paf- fages from the antient heathen writers adduced to shew how far natural re- ligion had enlightened mankind before revelation took place - - 176 CXIV . Obfervations upon these several instances of ...
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... Christ examined and opposed - - - 202 CXVII . Further defence of the miracles objected to by David Levi ; his charge of con- tradiction against the evangelical histo- rians answered ; and bis further at- tempts for finking the character ...
... Christ examined and opposed - - - 202 CXVII . Further defence of the miracles objected to by David Levi ; his charge of con- tradiction against the evangelical histo- rians answered ; and bis further at- tempts for finking the character ...
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... Christian hope administers a cordial even in our last moments , that lulls the agonies of death : But where is the need of thefe had this discovery been established ? why call in physicians and refort to cordials , if we can hold danger ...
... Christian hope administers a cordial even in our last moments , that lulls the agonies of death : But where is the need of thefe had this discovery been established ? why call in physicians and refort to cordials , if we can hold danger ...
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... Christ , no friend to Revelation ever meant to say , that all the gross and glaring absurdities of the heathen system , as vulgarly professed , were universally adopted , and that no thinking man amongst them entertained better ...
... Christ , no friend to Revelation ever meant to say , that all the gross and glaring absurdities of the heathen system , as vulgarly professed , were universally adopted , and that no thinking man amongst them entertained better ...
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... mind , however interested for Christianity , may be gratified with the reflection that the hu- man understanding was not so wholly enflaved , but but that in certain instances it could furmount the prejudices 184 THE OBSERVER . N ° 1144.
... mind , however interested for Christianity , may be gratified with the reflection that the hu- man understanding was not so wholly enflaved , but but that in certain instances it could furmount the prejudices 184 THE OBSERVER . N ° 1144.
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