A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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Page viii
... objections , which are here considered and prescribed for . It would indeed be an overwhelming pre- sumption against the truth of any proposed revelation , if it imposed this on us all : the posture of mind , which is the object of this ...
... objections , which are here considered and prescribed for . It would indeed be an overwhelming pre- sumption against the truth of any proposed revelation , if it imposed this on us all : the posture of mind , which is the object of this ...
Page ix
... objections , which either were not of sufficient 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 ...
... objections , which either were not of sufficient 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 ...
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... objections are removed — until you have given me a clear conception , and an unclouded demonstration , that it is obligatory ! While there remain so many opposing cir- cumstances , in the midst of such conflict , I cannot believe ...
... objections are removed — until you have given me a clear conception , and an unclouded demonstration , that it is obligatory ! While there remain so many opposing cir- cumstances , in the midst of such conflict , I cannot believe ...
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... objections , I fear he will have but very narrow thoughts , and find very little that he shall assent to . What , then , will you say ; shall he embrace that for truth which has im- probabilities in it which he cannot master ? This has ...
... objections , I fear he will have but very narrow thoughts , and find very little that he shall assent to . What , then , will you say ; shall he embrace that for truth which has im- probabilities in it which he cannot master ? This has ...
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... objections which bad , ingenious men may urge against them , we shall then , indeed , have " very narrow thoughts , and find very little that we shall assent to . " But if , though we can neither understand , nor explain any thing of ...
... objections which bad , ingenious men may urge against them , we shall then , indeed , have " very narrow thoughts , and find very little that we shall assent to . " But if , though we can neither understand , nor explain any thing of ...
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