A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... opinion but what he can free from all difficulties and remove all objections , I fear he will have but very narrow ... opinions , one must be true , that he cannot doubt ! Which then shall he take ? That which is accompanied with the ...
... opinion but what he can free from all difficulties and remove all objections , I fear he will have but very narrow ... opinions , one must be true , that he cannot doubt ! Which then shall he take ? That which is accompanied with the ...
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... opinions he professes — shall come , by a species of intuition , able , to give to every one that asketh him , a reason for the hope that is in him ! Much as we may have loved our parents and reverenced our instruc- tors , it is too ...
... opinions he professes — shall come , by a species of intuition , able , to give to every one that asketh him , a reason for the hope that is in him ! Much as we may have loved our parents and reverenced our instruc- tors , it is too ...
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... opinions , on the question , not of particular doctrines only , but of the very truth of Christianity , do con- fessedly and very widely , though more or less secretly , and in great measure from the causes just enumerated , prevail ...
... opinions , on the question , not of particular doctrines only , but of the very truth of Christianity , do con- fessedly and very widely , though more or less secretly , and in great measure from the causes just enumerated , prevail ...
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... opinion on a well - established fact in the history , even of his own country ; he may be utterly ignorant of it , and yet be a very well informed man in other histories , and some other things . Sir Isaac Newton's remark to the ...
... opinion on a well - established fact in the history , even of his own country ; he may be utterly ignorant of it , and yet be a very well informed man in other histories , and some other things . Sir Isaac Newton's remark to the ...
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... of , on See a letter written by him a year or two only before he died , lamenting his irreligion and incon- sistency . Appendix , ii . the conclusions of the understanding , and the religious opinions 46 RELIGIOUS DOUBT .
... of , on See a letter written by him a year or two only before he died , lamenting his irreligion and incon- sistency . Appendix , ii . the conclusions of the understanding , and the religious opinions 46 RELIGIOUS DOUBT .
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