The infidel's own book, a statement of some of the absurdities resulting from the rejection of ChristianityHamilton, Adams, 1834 - 200 |
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... experience or observation , more or less familiar . All human laws are founded on the supposition that men need restraint ; and it is a melancholy consideration , that however severe their penalties , they are yet inadequate to the end ...
... experience or observation , more or less familiar . All human laws are founded on the supposition that men need restraint ; and it is a melancholy consideration , that however severe their penalties , they are yet inadequate to the end ...
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... experience proves it ; that it gave no encouragement to the corrupt propensities of man's heart ; that its professors were generally persons of decent morals , and that an individual were sincerely disposed to embrace it , as a ...
... experience proves it ; that it gave no encouragement to the corrupt propensities of man's heart ; that its professors were generally persons of decent morals , and that an individual were sincerely disposed to embrace it , as a ...
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... experience , while it is not contrary to experience that men should testify what is false , we ought not to give any credit to one who pretends to have witnessed such an event . The whole force of this sophism lies in the am- biguity of ...
... experience , while it is not contrary to experience that men should testify what is false , we ought not to give any credit to one who pretends to have witnessed such an event . The whole force of this sophism lies in the am- biguity of ...
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Richard Treffry. But if by " experience " is to be understood universal experience , then the assertion that a miracle is contrary to experience , is in effect saying , that no one ever witnessed a miracle , which is assuming the ...
Richard Treffry. But if by " experience " is to be understood universal experience , then the assertion that a miracle is contrary to experience , is in effect saying , that no one ever witnessed a miracle , which is assuming the ...
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... experience supplies nothing like satisfaction ; because , though I never witnessed any deviation from what I believe to be the laws of nature , yet there are countless other phenomena , to which I am equally a stranger , which I am ...
... experience supplies nothing like satisfaction ; because , though I never witnessed any deviation from what I believe to be the laws of nature , yet there are countless other phenomena , to which I am equally a stranger , which I am ...
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Strona 152 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Strona 151 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; and labour, working with our own hands : being reviled, we bless : being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed, we entreat : we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Strona 200 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Strona 194 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Strona 200 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Strona 200 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Strona 151 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one." " Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice J suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep.
Strona 61 - As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, "so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, 'Am not I in sport?
Strona 60 - Though I throw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet, in other things, I do not think so differently from the rest of mankind as you may imagine.