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... cause without an inspection of the manu- scripts . Such errors as were obvious , however , have been correct- ed ; but it has always been thought better to leave a passage as dark as it was found , than to change a word , except when ...
... cause without an inspection of the manu- scripts . Such errors as were obvious , however , have been correct- ed ; but it has always been thought better to leave a passage as dark as it was found , than to change a word , except when ...
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... - come by the perverseness of man . Amongst many causes which occasion the thing we speak of , namely , why the effect of Christianity so frequently does not come up to the intention , is the cause assigned 2 WHY MEN RESIST AND PUT ASIDE.
... - come by the perverseness of man . Amongst many causes which occasion the thing we speak of , namely , why the effect of Christianity so frequently does not come up to the intention , is the cause assigned 2 WHY MEN RESIST AND PUT ASIDE.
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William Paley. come up to the intention , is the cause assigned by our Lord himself in the text ; ' men love darkness rather than light . ' Light , he states , is come into the world , yet mankind continue unenlightened ; and why ...
William Paley. come up to the intention , is the cause assigned by our Lord himself in the text ; ' men love darkness rather than light . ' Light , he states , is come into the world , yet mankind continue unenlightened ; and why ...
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... cause us to fondle an opinion , that we are better than we seem to be , or , in reality , than we are . Here , if in any thing , men love darkness rather than light ; error without examination , rather than truth with it . For what ...
... cause us to fondle an opinion , that we are better than we seem to be , or , in reality , than we are . Here , if in any thing , men love darkness rather than light ; error without examination , rather than truth with it . For what ...
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... cause . Different men are affected by different motives ; and what sinks deep into the heart of one man , makes little impression upon another ; and this depends not only upon a difference of disposition , which yet is very great , but ...
... cause . Different men are affected by different motives ; and what sinks deep into the heart of one man , makes little impression upon another ; and this depends not only upon a difference of disposition , which yet is very great , but ...
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