Origines Sacrae Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion: To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author : Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 1 |
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Page vii
... follow a good conscience wherever it dwells , it were enough to make men welcome that guest which brings such good entertainment with it . Whereas the amaze- ments , horrors , and anxieties of mind which at one time or other haunt such ...
... follow a good conscience wherever it dwells , it were enough to make men welcome that guest which brings such good entertainment with it . Whereas the amaze- ments , horrors , and anxieties of mind which at one time or other haunt such ...
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... follow , that , where there was a true knowledge , the conceptions must agree with the things ; and words being to express our conceptions , none are so fit to do it as those which are expressive of the several natures of the things ...
... follow , that , where there was a true knowledge , the conceptions must agree with the things ; and words being to express our conceptions , none are so fit to do it as those which are expressive of the several natures of the things ...
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... follow from it , but , through the shortness of their own reason , doth appear to them to do so . Thus when the intelligent heathen did apparently see , that from the principles of the being of God , and the immortality of souls , did ...
... follow from it , but , through the shortness of their own reason , doth appear to them to do so . Thus when the intelligent heathen did apparently see , that from the principles of the being of God , and the immortality of souls , did ...
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... follows , when truth and falsehood are mixed , for the sake of the truth to em- brace the falsehood ; which is a mistake as common as the other , because men are apt to think , that things so vastly different as truth and falsehood ...
... follows , when truth and falsehood are mixed , for the sake of the truth to em- brace the falsehood ; which is a mistake as common as the other , because men are apt to think , that things so vastly different as truth and falsehood ...
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... follow its most flying footsteps through the dark and shady paths of ancient history . For though history be frequently called the light of truth , and the herald of times , yet that light is so faint and dim , especially in heathen ...
... follow its most flying footsteps through the dark and shady paths of ancient history . For though history be frequently called the light of truth , and the herald of times , yet that light is so faint and dim , especially in heathen ...
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