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Excerpt from The Consistency of the Whole Scheme of Revelation With Itself and With Human Reason
The object of the following dissertation is to do justice to the internal evidences of Christianity, by disencumbering them of the weight of that class of objections which, though in popular discussion generally considered as affecting the cause Of reve lation exclusively, stand in reality in no need of refutation, for the plain and simple reason that they are applicable in exactly the same degree to every possible modification of religion Whatever. There is certainly much confusion of idea dis played in the mode by which skeptics for the most part make their assaults upon the credibility of revelation. Of the arguments alleged by them, far the greater proportion will usually be found to militate against principles already admitted by themselves, while almost all of them consist of isolated and desultory attacks upon some detached point of' belief, rarely, if ever, at the same time taking'an enlarged and impartial survey of the antagonist difficulties which attach to the Opposite view of the same question. It is Obvious, how ever, to every person who has paid the slightest attention to the topics of theology, that objections which, when considered separately, appear per.
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Excerpt from The Consistency of the Whole Scheme of Revelation With Itself and With Human Reason
The object of the following dissertation is to do justice to the internal evidences of Christianity, by disencumbering them of the weight of that class of objections which, though in popular discussion generally considered as affecting the cause Of reve lation exclusively, stand in reality in no need of refutation, for the plain and simple reason that they are applicable in exactly the same degree to every possible modification of religion Whatever. There is certainly much confusion of idea dis played in the mode by which skeptics for the most part make their assaults upon the credibility of revelation. Of the arguments alleged by them, far the greater proportion will usually be found to militate against principles already admitted by themselves, while almost all of them consist of isolated and desultory attacks upon some detached point of' belief, rarely, if ever, at the same time taking'an enlarged and impartial survey of the antagonist difficulties which attach to the Opposite view of the same question. It is Obvious, how ever, to every person who has paid the slightest attention to the topics of theology, that objections which, when considered separately, appear per.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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