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The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our ... - Page 40
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Hysterai Phrontides, Or, The Last Thoughts of Dr. Whitby: Containing His ...

Daniel Whitby - Bible - 1727 - 204 pages
...we cannot avoid believing of it 5 and where is the Merit or Piety of a neceflary Aflent J If it is not evident, we cannot help rejecting it, or doubting...not believing what does not appear to us to be true ? If 1 have done my beft Endeavour to know the Mind of God revealed in Scripture, I have done all I...
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Christianity as Old as the Creation: Or, the Gospel, a ..., Volume 1

Matthew Tindal - Christianity - 1730 - 470 pages
...we cannot -avoid believing -it ; and where is the Merit " or Piety of a neceffary Aflent ? If it is not evident, we " cannot help rejecting it, or doubting of it : And where cc is the Crime of not performing Impoflibilities, or not " believing what does not appear to us to...
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The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our ...

John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon - 1732 - 362 pages
...and where is the Merit or Piety of a neceflary Aflent ? If it be not evident, we cannot help reje&ing it, or doubting of it; and where is the Crime of not performing Impoflibilities, or not believing what does not appear to us to be true? Are Men who have good Eyes,...
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Considerations Upon War, Upon Cruelty in General: And Religious Cruelty in ...

Cruelty - 1758 - 508 pages
...evident, we cannot avoid believing it ; and where is the merit or piety of a neceflary aflent ? If it is not evident, we cannot help rejecting it, or doubting of it; and where is the crime of not performing impoflibilities, or not bc(j'cw'ng what does not y^w ^ us t,<j be true ? depends upon the works it...
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A Collection of Essays and Tracts in Theology, from Various ..., Volume 2

Jared Sparks - Theology - 1823 - 404 pages
...we cannot avoid believing of it ; and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent ? If it is not evident, we cannot help rejecting it, or doubting of it ; and where is the crime of not performing impossibilities, or not believing what does not appear to us to be true ? If I have done my best endeavour...
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A History of the Romish and English Hierarchies: With an Examination of the ...

James Abbott - Episcopacy - 1833 - 398 pages
...proposition be evident, we cannot avoid believing it; and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent? If it be not evident, we cannot help rejecting it, or doubting it; and where is the crime of not performing impossibilities, or not believing what does not appear...
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The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Volume 1

Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 224 pages
...evident, we cannot avoid believing it, and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent ? If it is not evident, we cannot help rejecting it, or doubting of it; and where is the crime of not performing impossibilities, or not believing what does not appear to us to be true ?" Throughout the world belief...
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The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Volume 1

Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 326 pages
...evident, we cannot avoid believing it, and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent ? If it is not evident, we cannot help rejecting it, or doubting of it; and where is the crime of not performing impossibilities, or not believing what does not appear to us to be true ?" Throughout the world belief...
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Materials for deciding the question, whether or not the Bible is the word of ...

Charles Junius Haslam - Bible - 1840 - 334 pages
...evident, we cannot avoid believing it ; and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent ? If it is not evident, we cannot help rejecting it, or doubting of it ; and where is the crime of not performing impossibilities, or not believing what does not appear to us to be true ? " Dr. Whitby, in his Last...
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A Full Report of the Trial of Henry Hetherington, on an Indictment for ...

Henry Hetherington - Blasphemy - 1840 - 32 pages
...eriitunl, we cannot avoid believing it; and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent 1 If it is not evident, we cannot help rejecting it, or doubting of it; and where is the crime of not performing impossibilities, or not believing what does not appear to us to be true ?" Gentlemen of the Jury, can...
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