A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... Prayer . - 17 . Forms of Prayers . - 18 . Difficulties in the Scriptures , Translations , & c . - 19 . Science and Revelation , not opposed . - 20 . Learned Believers . PART THE FIRST . CHAPTER I. MISCONCEPTIONS AS TO THE.
... Prayer . - 17 . Forms of Prayers . - 18 . Difficulties in the Scriptures , Translations , & c . - 19 . Science and Revelation , not opposed . - 20 . Learned Believers . PART THE FIRST . CHAPTER I. MISCONCEPTIONS AS TO THE.
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... prayer- whether the lives and deaths of Christians , as compared with those of professed Infidels , illustrate the excellency of their faith ; - whether , in short , the promises and blessings of Christianity are verified in those who ...
... prayer- whether the lives and deaths of Christians , as compared with those of professed Infidels , illustrate the excellency of their faith ; - whether , in short , the promises and blessings of Christianity are verified in those who ...
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... prayer , + is one of the clearest promises of the Sacred Writings , to aid him in his oft baffled and unstable resolutions . " A sceptic who yields to the powerful proofs * See this subject philosophically considered in Locke's ...
... prayer , + is one of the clearest promises of the Sacred Writings , to aid him in his oft baffled and unstable resolutions . " A sceptic who yields to the powerful proofs * See this subject philosophically considered in Locke's ...
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... prayer can , indeed , obtain that faith which , when reason and sound judgment have led us to super- natural truth , gives to unseen things the body and substance of reality . * The celebrated Algernon Sidney , in his " Discourses ...
... prayer can , indeed , obtain that faith which , when reason and sound judgment have led us to super- natural truth , gives to unseen things the body and substance of reality . * The celebrated Algernon Sidney , in his " Discourses ...
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... prayer and godly sincerity , he cannot be much wrong eventually . Only , let him be diligent . " We know the attention bestowed by men of learning upon human laws , and how long a portion of their time must be devoted to study , ere ...
... prayer and godly sincerity , he cannot be much wrong eventually . Only , let him be diligent . " We know the attention bestowed by men of learning upon human laws , and how long a portion of their time must be devoted to study , ere ...
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