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Page 107
... event in which this event is foretold ; how could the prophet have foreknown it without inspiration ? How could he have been inspired without God ? The greatest stress is laid on the prophecies of Moses and Hosea on the dis- persion of ...
... event in which this event is foretold ; how could the prophet have foreknown it without inspiration ? How could he have been inspired without God ? The greatest stress is laid on the prophecies of Moses and Hosea on the dis- persion of ...
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... event is pretended to have happened . This single plain proph- ecy , thus conspicuously false , may serve as a criterion of those which are more vague and indirect and which apply in an hundred senses to an hundred things . Either the ...
... event is pretended to have happened . This single plain proph- ecy , thus conspicuously false , may serve as a criterion of those which are more vague and indirect and which apply in an hundred senses to an hundred things . Either the ...
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... event than one precisely suffi- cient to produce that event . Supposing also God to be benevolent as well as all power- ful , it is not only absurd but impious to impute to his special agency the production of the events called miracles ...
... event than one precisely suffi- cient to produce that event . Supposing also God to be benevolent as well as all power- ful , it is not only absurd but impious to impute to his special agency the production of the events called miracles ...
Contents
ESSAYS | 28 |
PROPOSALS FOR AN ASSOCIATION | 169 |
A VINDICATION | 181 |
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