A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... reason , that if true , they will have their re- ward hereafter ; and if there be no hereafter , they can be but with the infidel in his eternal sleep , having had the assistance of an exalted hope through life , without subsequent ...
... reason , that if true , they will have their re- ward hereafter ; and if there be no hereafter , they can be but with the infidel in his eternal sleep , having had the assistance of an exalted hope through life , without subsequent ...
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... reason bound to act , in questions of a religious nature . And the fol- lowing passage , from a deeply tried and ad- mirable writer , will carry us at once into the matter , and a solution of it . " My mind found rest in that kind of ...
... reason bound to act , in questions of a religious nature . And the fol- lowing passage , from a deeply tried and ad- mirable writer , will carry us at once into the matter , and a solution of it . " My mind found rest in that kind of ...
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... reason , to overlook the irresistible evidence which was placed before their eyes , in search of another mode of proof , altogether unattain- able in moral inquiries , and which , if it could be attained , would not be less liable to ...
... reason , to overlook the irresistible evidence which was placed before their eyes , in search of another mode of proof , altogether unattain- able in moral inquiries , and which , if it could be attained , would not be less liable to ...
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... reason to be given , why one may not be in a state of moral probation with regard to the exercise of our faculties upon the subject of religion , as we are with regard to our behaviour on com- mon affairs . And thus , that religion is ...
... reason to be given , why one may not be in a state of moral probation with regard to the exercise of our faculties upon the subject of religion , as we are with regard to our behaviour on com- mon affairs . And thus , that religion is ...
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... reasons . * The question evi- dently is , not at all , whether we can under- stand the nature or essence of the mystery , or * On the subject of Mysteries , see " Letters on the Christian Religion , " by Olinthus Gregory , vol . i ...
... reasons . * The question evi- dently is , not at all , whether we can under- stand the nature or essence of the mystery , or * On the subject of Mysteries , see " Letters on the Christian Religion , " by Olinthus Gregory , vol . i ...
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