The Evidences of Divine RevelationOliver & Boyd, 1838 - 492 pages |
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... nations . This might have been originally owing to a tradition of some extraordinary revelation or revelations really com- municated in the earliest times to the first ancestors of the human race , from whom it was transmitted to their ...
... nations . This might have been originally owing to a tradition of some extraordinary revelation or revelations really com- municated in the earliest times to the first ancestors of the human race , from whom it was transmitted to their ...
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... nations be justly adduced as evidence of the powers of human nature in matters of religion , when left merely to itself and its own unassisted force , except it can be shown that the notions they taught were merely the product of their ...
... nations be justly adduced as evidence of the powers of human nature in matters of religion , when left merely to itself and its own unassisted force , except it can be shown that the notions they taught were merely the product of their ...
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... nations , the brute animals , gods and goddesses ; and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man , and to birds , and fourfooted beasts , and creeping things . This system of polytheism and ...
... nations , the brute animals , gods and goddesses ; and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man , and to birds , and fourfooted beasts , and creeping things . This system of polytheism and ...
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... nations merely , but of the polite and civilized inhabitants of Greece and Rome , who have been so highly famed for their skill in arts , and their ardour in the acquirement of knowledge . Constituting the works of nature , and even the ...
... nations merely , but of the polite and civilized inhabitants of Greece and Rome , who have been so highly famed for their skill in arts , and their ardour in the acquirement of knowledge . Constituting the works of nature , and even the ...
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... nations of the earth ; and though their ignorance was far from being excusable , it teaches us , that the doctrine of the divine unity is not made known so clearly by reason and nature , as to render further light undesirable and ...
... nations of the earth ; and though their ignorance was far from being excusable , it teaches us , that the doctrine of the divine unity is not made known so clearly by reason and nature , as to render further light undesirable and ...
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