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... ftate . His enemies for as a Prefbyterian he hath many - and as a Socinian more - have precipitately caught at the charge : and fome of them were not deftitute of that cunning and address which were just fufficient to give it the credit ...
... ftate . His enemies for as a Prefbyterian he hath many - and as a Socinian more - have precipitately caught at the charge : and fome of them were not deftitute of that cunning and address which were just fufficient to give it the credit ...
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... ftate independently of it ? The evidences of the truth of Chriftianity , and the natural evidences of a future ftate , proceed on different grounds , and rest their fupport on very different proofs . The former are built on pofitive ...
... ftate independently of it ? The evidences of the truth of Chriftianity , and the natural evidences of a future ftate , proceed on different grounds , and rest their fupport on very different proofs . The former are built on pofitive ...
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... ftate , unless he had actually died in the full expectation of it . And after all , it would have wanted the certainty of a matter of fact to us , if he had not fulfilled his own prediction by riting from the dead . His death was an evi ...
... ftate , unless he had actually died in the full expectation of it . And after all , it would have wanted the certainty of a matter of fact to us , if he had not fulfilled his own prediction by riting from the dead . His death was an evi ...
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... ftating the grounds of his faith . After obferving that great focieties are never overthrown by fortune alone , he ... ftate empiricks who have a panacea for every diforder , with- out any regard to the patient or diagnofticks , with ...
... ftating the grounds of his faith . After obferving that great focieties are never overthrown by fortune alone , he ... ftate empiricks who have a panacea for every diforder , with- out any regard to the patient or diagnofticks , with ...
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... ftate of our navy , and the decreafing state of theirs ? The mortality in their fleet , and the fhock lately received in the Weft Indies , must make their hearts fink within them , and bring our minority to a ftate of defpondency . In ...
... ftate of our navy , and the decreafing state of theirs ? The mortality in their fleet , and the fhock lately received in the Weft Indies , must make their hearts fink within them , and bring our minority to a ftate of defpondency . In ...
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