Considerations Upon the Miracles of the Gospel: In Answer to the Difficulties Raised by Mr. John-James Rousseau, in His Third Letter from the MountainJ. Newbery and F. Newbery, 1757 - 164 pages |
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... prove that his EMILIUS no way attacks the Faith , Does he not unfettle the Faith itself , and use Efforts to pluck from it one of its firm- est Foundations ?. I wished I wished to offer a Preservative against a Book which ( ix )
... prove that his EMILIUS no way attacks the Faith , Does he not unfettle the Faith itself , and use Efforts to pluck from it one of its firm- est Foundations ?. I wished I wished to offer a Preservative against a Book which ( ix )
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... Book which its Author's Fame and Elo- quence rendered still more dangerous . This Defire gave Birth to the prefent Work : Religion is its only Subject ; it has alone . engaged my Attention . I have avoided the juft Complaints of another ...
... Book which its Author's Fame and Elo- quence rendered still more dangerous . This Defire gave Birth to the prefent Work : Religion is its only Subject ; it has alone . engaged my Attention . I have avoided the juft Complaints of another ...
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... Book as the New - Teftament . But I could wish , that to complete my Conviction , God himself had fet his Seal to it . In fo capital an affair we need not be afraid of too much Light . With respect to the second Character , tho ...
... Book as the New - Teftament . But I could wish , that to complete my Conviction , God himself had fet his Seal to it . In fo capital an affair we need not be afraid of too much Light . With respect to the second Character , tho ...
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... Book of the Acts are full of Miracles , by which our Lord and the firft Preachers of the Faith established their Authority . By de- nying a clear Point , the Author forces me to prove it ; but I will do fo in few words . • P. 75- Το To ...
... Book of the Acts are full of Miracles , by which our Lord and the firft Preachers of the Faith established their Authority . By de- nying a clear Point , the Author forces me to prove it ; but I will do fo in few words . • P. 75- Το To ...
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... Book . But these were * Here , in a Note , Mr. Rouffeau blames the Gene- rality of Tranflators , " for having rendered by Mi- racles the original word , which properly fignifies . Vir- tues . It is directly contrary : Avaus , the ...
... Book . But these were * Here , in a Note , Mr. Rouffeau blames the Gene- rality of Tranflators , " for having rendered by Mi- racles the original word , which properly fignifies . Vir- tues . It is directly contrary : Avaus , the ...
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Page 22 - The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Page 138 - Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
Page 36 - Jonah the prophet : for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale ; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 119 - Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and...
Page 28 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
Page 17 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.
Page 122 - I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? Will ye also be his disciples? Then they reviled him and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses
Page 157 - Shall we suppose the evangelic history a mere fiction ? Indeed, my friend, it bears not the marks of fiction ; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ.
Page 65 - And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
Page 118 - Medical men in modern times (it is well known) are of the same opinion ; and infidelity never could produce an example of blindness, absolute and continued from the birth, that was cured by the assistance of art. Such being the circumstances of this man's case, was it natural to imagine that clay put...