The infidel's own book, a statement of some of the absurdities resulting from the rejection of ChristianityHamilton, Adams, 1834 - 200 páginas |
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... testimony to the excellence of Christianity . I must not except even Thomas Paine : one concession at least , he has made in favour of what he generally treats with the most vulgar and impious abuse . It is so far remarkable , that I ...
... testimony to the excellence of Christianity . I must not except even Thomas Paine : one concession at least , he has made in favour of what he generally treats with the most vulgar and impious abuse . It is so far remarkable , that I ...
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... testimony of others to a miracle , or indeed to any rare event ; but that if they supposed they themselves witnessed such an incident , they ought to discredit the testimony of their own senses . For example ; were we , in company with ...
... testimony of others to a miracle , or indeed to any rare event ; but that if they supposed they themselves witnessed such an incident , they ought to discredit the testimony of their own senses . For example ; were we , in company with ...
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... testimony of others ; nor could any future experience of mine , render me at all more certain of these and a thousand similar events . For the same reason , I am satisfied of the regularity of the operations of nature ; for even of the ...
... testimony of others ; nor could any future experience of mine , render me at all more certain of these and a thousand similar events . For the same reason , I am satisfied of the regularity of the operations of nature ; for even of the ...
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Richard Treffry. except from their testimony ; and I am compelled , in innumerable instances , to receive testimony which totally differs from the testimony of my own experience . The amount of the argument , there- fore , is this ...
Richard Treffry. except from their testimony ; and I am compelled , in innumerable instances , to receive testimony which totally differs from the testimony of my own experience . The amount of the argument , there- fore , is this ...
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... experience , but by the testimony of the contradicting parties , —the character respectively , of each class of witnesses , -the possibilities or probabilities involved in the opposing statements , & c . 66 THE INFIDEL'S OWN BOOK .
... experience , but by the testimony of the contradicting parties , —the character respectively , of each class of witnesses , -the possibilities or probabilities involved in the opposing statements , & c . 66 THE INFIDEL'S OWN BOOK .
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.