A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... original— whether the sincere believer will find them adapted to his wants - whether the morals inculcated , the end proposed , the means en- joined , are agreeable to man's best reason and the dictates of an enlightened understanding ...
... original— whether the sincere believer will find them adapted to his wants - whether the morals inculcated , the end proposed , the means en- joined , are agreeable to man's best reason and the dictates of an enlightened understanding ...
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... , " ch . xx . " That God is not known to advantage , but through Jesus Christ . " One of the most original and striking chapters in that remarkable work . culties of various kinds , * which may meet him 88 RELIGIOUS DOUBT .
... , " ch . xx . " That God is not known to advantage , but through Jesus Christ . " One of the most original and striking chapters in that remarkable work . culties of various kinds , * which may meet him 88 RELIGIOUS DOUBT .
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... original ignorance and barbarity ; which seems a demonstration that although human reason is capable of progression in science , yet the first foundations must be laid by supernatural instruction ; for surely no other probable cause can ...
... original ignorance and barbarity ; which seems a demonstration that although human reason is capable of progression in science , yet the first foundations must be laid by supernatural instruction ; for surely no other probable cause can ...
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... original , and just , and striking ; but his inveterate love for paradox and sin- gularity , combined with other causes no less influential on the healthy exercise of the mental faculty , seem , to have hurried him , into such a state ...
... original , and just , and striking ; but his inveterate love for paradox and sin- gularity , combined with other causes no less influential on the healthy exercise of the mental faculty , seem , to have hurried him , into such a state ...
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... original miracles , of which it has been the business of this treatise to assert the performance . In truth , in the work of this eminent historian , there is but little in the way of argument , which we need distrust , on the ground of ...
... original miracles , of which it has been the business of this treatise to assert the performance . In truth , in the work of this eminent historian , there is but little in the way of argument , which we need distrust , on the ground of ...
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