Origines Sacrae: Or, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 1The University Press, 1836 - Apologetics |
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... conceive , the name of an Hebrew was given to Abraham by the Canaanites , upon his passing over the river Euphrates . On this account then it stands to reason , that the name which was given him as a stranger , should be longest ...
... conceive , the name of an Hebrew was given to Abraham by the Canaanites , upon his passing over the river Euphrates . On this account then it stands to reason , that the name which was given him as a stranger , should be longest ...
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... conceive how Sanchoniathon could be contemporary with Gideon , ( which yet if he were , he falls 182 years short of Moses , ) especially because the building of Tyre , which that author mentions as an ancient thing , ( as hath been ...
... conceive how Sanchoniathon could be contemporary with Gideon , ( which yet if he were , he falls 182 years short of Moses , ) especially because the building of Tyre , which that author mentions as an ancient thing , ( as hath been ...
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... conceive these several ages agree- able to the same Tyre : the first was when it was a high strong rock on the sea - side , without many inha- bitants ; so I suppose it was , when mentioned by Jo- shua as the bound of the tribe of Asher ...
... conceive these several ages agree- able to the same Tyre : the first was when it was a high strong rock on the sea - side , without many inha- bitants ; so I suppose it was , when mentioned by Jo- shua as the bound of the tribe of Asher ...
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... conceived so much to differ from each other ? If we make the stories of Osiris and Isis to be fabulous , and merely allegorical , as Plutarch doth , then Mercury himself must become an allegory , and the father of letters must be an ...
... conceived so much to differ from each other ? If we make the stories of Osiris and Isis to be fabulous , and merely allegorical , as Plutarch doth , then Mercury himself must become an allegory , and the father of letters must be an ...
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... conceive bids fairest to be the genuine sense of the place , viz . that these stones here were the twelve stones pitched by Joshua , in Gilgal , after the Israel - Josh.iv . 19 , ites passed over Jordan ; and these stones are said to be ...
... conceive bids fairest to be the genuine sense of the place , viz . that these stones here were the twelve stones pitched by Joshua , in Gilgal , after the Israel - Josh.iv . 19 , ites passed over Jordan ; and these stones are said to be ...
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