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Page vii
... professed intention of the Lectures , which were pro- jected with the hope of directing the attention of well - educated persons to the great principles of the Gospel ; and especially as at this moment put in jeopardy by the wide ...
... professed intention of the Lectures , which were pro- jected with the hope of directing the attention of well - educated persons to the great principles of the Gospel ; and especially as at this moment put in jeopardy by the wide ...
Page 12
... profess themselves to be competent to follow , intelligently , the demonstration which establishes the mechanism of the heavens , as now constituting the creed of Astronomy . Beyond * But if , on grounds of philosophical justice , we ...
... profess themselves to be competent to follow , intelligently , the demonstration which establishes the mechanism of the heavens , as now constituting the creed of Astronomy . Beyond * But if , on grounds of philosophical justice , we ...
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... professing to address those who have lived in too constant fami- liarity with what is gross or selfish , to allow the moral faculties to have retained their genuine force . Yet let it not hence be inferred that our argument is itself a ...
... professing to address those who have lived in too constant fami- liarity with what is gross or selfish , to allow the moral faculties to have retained their genuine force . Yet let it not hence be inferred that our argument is itself a ...
Page 37
... professed to rest upon historic truth , or which have notoriously failed in making good any such pretension . These various schemes . need not be named ; -they barely merit an enu- meration they are susceptible of no distinct refu ...
... professed to rest upon historic truth , or which have notoriously failed in making good any such pretension . These various schemes . need not be named ; -they barely merit an enu- meration they are susceptible of no distinct refu ...
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... professed that we shall ask nothing on behalf of spiritual religion which does not necessarily flow from the admission , that Christianity is histo- rically true ; but if true , then the commission which we have cited to preach the ...
... professed that we shall ask nothing on behalf of spiritual religion which does not necessarily flow from the admission , that Christianity is histo- rically true ; but if true , then the commission which we have cited to preach the ...
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