A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... importance to interrupt the general argument , or which seemed to require a separate and fuller dis- cussion than would have been there proper . Lists of Books will be also given there for the further prosecution of the chief points ...
... importance to interrupt the general argument , or which seemed to require a separate and fuller dis- cussion than would have been there proper . Lists of Books will be also given there for the further prosecution of the chief points ...
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... important actions , the common bond of social life , the ground of retributive justice , the parent of all human laws . Yet it is inse- parable from more or less doubt : for doubtless conviction is only to be found about objects of ...
... important actions , the common bond of social life , the ground of retributive justice , the parent of all human laws . Yet it is inse- parable from more or less doubt : for doubtless conviction is only to be found about objects of ...
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... important the tendency , or the result of a particular action , or series of actions may be , the slighter need be the preponderance of pro- bability to determine our adopting it . It is probable , for example , that we may be heirs ...
... important the tendency , or the result of a particular action , or series of actions may be , the slighter need be the preponderance of pro- bability to determine our adopting it . It is probable , for example , that we may be heirs ...
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... doubt- ing concerning religion , implies such a degree of evidence for it , as joined , with the consi- deration of its importance , unquestionably lays men under the obligations before mentioned , to have a 10 RELIGIOUS DOUBT .
... doubt- ing concerning religion , implies such a degree of evidence for it , as joined , with the consi- deration of its importance , unquestionably lays men under the obligations before mentioned , to have a 10 RELIGIOUS DOUBT .
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... importance of a revelation , will of itself convince others , or support us , under the disparagements , or direct negations of what we evidently know next to nothing . I conceive it a radical error in the general system of education in ...
... importance of a revelation , will of itself convince others , or support us , under the disparagements , or direct negations of what we evidently know next to nothing . I conceive it a radical error in the general system of education in ...
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