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Pàgina 64 - Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For all the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before.
Pàgina 77 - Jews, and obtained amongst most other nations, from tradition, whose original probably was revelation. And they were continually repeated, both occasionally and at the returns of stated times, and made up great part of the external religion of mankind. ' But now once in the end of the world Christ appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Pàgina 114 - Indeed the unsatisfactory nature of the evidence with which we are obliged to take up, in the daily course of life, is scarce to be expressed. Yet men do not throw away life, or disregard the interests of it, upon account of this doubtfulness. The evidence of religion then being admitted real, those who object against it as not satisfactory...
Pàgina 110 - For it is easy to show, in a short and lively manner, that such and such things are liable to objection, that this and another thing is of little weight in itself; but impossible to show, in like manner, the united force of the whole argument in one view.
Pàgina vii - ... taking for proved, that there is an intelligent Author of Nature, and natural Governor of the world. For as there is no presumption against this prior to the proof of it, so it has been often proved with accumulated evidence ; from this argument of analogy and final causes; from abstract reasonings; from the most ancient tradition and testimony; and from the general consent of mankind.
Pàgina 74 - And though we ought to reason with all reverence, whenever we reason concerning the divine conduct, yet it may be added, that it is clearly contrary to all our notions of government, as well as to what is in fact the general constitution of nature, to suppose that doing well for the future should, in all cases prevent all the judicial bad consequences of having done evil, or all the punishment annexed to disobedience.
Pàgina 75 - God so loved the world, as to give his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life...
Pàgina 66 - Not that reason is no judge of what is offered to us as being of divine revelation. For this would be to infer that we are unable to judge of any thing, because we are unable to judge of all things. Reason can and it ought to judge, not only of the meaning, but also of the morality and the evidence of revelation.
Pàgina 66 - And now, what is the just consequence from all these things? Not that reason is no judge of what is offered to us as being of divine revelation. For this would be to infer that we are unable to judge of any thing, because we are unable to judge of all things.
Pàgina 77 - How, and in what particular way, the sacrifice of Christ was efficacious, many have endeavoured to explain ; but as the Scripture has left the subject involved in mystery, all conjectures about it must be, if not evidently absurd, at least uncertain.