A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... error arises , from confound- ing together two species of proof , essentially different ; both equally binding , but each , perfectly distinct , as the following will well explain . " Probable evidence is essentially dis- tinguished ...
... error arises , from confound- ing together two species of proof , essentially different ; both equally binding , but each , perfectly distinct , as the following will well explain . " Probable evidence is essentially dis- tinguished ...
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... error lies , more with themselves , than those whom they so harshly censure . Can it be sufficient in days like these , to send men , as they are sent daily , abroad into the world , amidst the sophistry and the trials which will ...
... error lies , more with themselves , than those whom they so harshly censure . Can it be sufficient in days like these , to send men , as they are sent daily , abroad into the world , amidst the sophistry and the trials which will ...
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... error in the general system of education in this country , that , while the truths of the established religion are sedulously propounded , the reasons why those truths must be believed , are so rarely taught . All inquiries of this ...
... error in the general system of education in this country , that , while the truths of the established religion are sedulously propounded , the reasons why those truths must be believed , are so rarely taught . All inquiries of this ...
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... error , and as irrational as it is unscriptural , for a man to be turned adrift into the wide ocean of those bold and universal inquiries which peculiarly characterise our days , unac- quainted with any further grounds for their ...
... error , and as irrational as it is unscriptural , for a man to be turned adrift into the wide ocean of those bold and universal inquiries which peculiarly characterise our days , unac- quainted with any further grounds for their ...
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... error I have censured is fraught with unneeded misery and harm . Concise and plain state- ments of the facts upon which the Christian obligations rest , are easy to be obtained in forms adapted to all ages and capacities and until such ...
... error I have censured is fraught with unneeded misery and harm . Concise and plain state- ments of the facts upon which the Christian obligations rest , are easy to be obtained in forms adapted to all ages and capacities and until such ...
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