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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... tradition or constant revelation . III . The second concerns the certainty that the records under Moses's name were undoubt- edly his . The certainty of a matter of fact inquired into in gene- ral , and proved as to this particular , IV ...
... tradition or constant revelation . III . The second concerns the certainty that the records under Moses's name were undoubt- edly his . The certainty of a matter of fact inquired into in gene- ral , and proved as to this particular , IV ...
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... traditions on which their idolatry was founded , as of those first principles and notions , from which the ne- cessity of ... tradition was in them , and not in the Jews : which must be our only way for finding out which was the original ...
... traditions on which their idolatry was founded , as of those first principles and notions , from which the ne- cessity of ... tradition was in them , and not in the Jews : which must be our only way for finding out which was the original ...
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... tradition preserved in the world concerning the oldest ages of the world ; that this tradition was gradually cor- rupted among the heathens ; that , notwithstanding this corruption , there were sufficient remainders of it ' to evidence ...
... tradition preserved in the world concerning the oldest ages of the world ; that this tradition was gradually cor- rupted among the heathens ; that , notwithstanding this corruption , there were sufficient remainders of it ' to evidence ...
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... tradition . If we find such infinite variety and difference in men's accounts , as to the histories of their own times , when they have all possible means to be acquainted with the truth of them ; what account can we imagine can be ...
... tradition . If we find such infinite variety and difference in men's accounts , as to the histories of their own times , when they have all possible means to be acquainted with the truth of them ; what account can we imagine can be ...
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... traditions conveyed from father to son , which might be learned by such who followed nothing but domestic employments ? So that the sons of Noah , after their several dispersions and plantations of se- veral countries , did gradually ...
... traditions conveyed from father to son , which might be learned by such who followed nothing but domestic employments ? So that the sons of Noah , after their several dispersions and plantations of se- veral countries , did gradually ...
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