A Compendious View of the Grounds of Religion, Both Natural and Reveal'd; In Two Dissertations. by Thomas Seaton - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1729. Excerpt: ... A Differsatiort upon the jews at the Time our Saviour a&ed publicUy as the Messenger of Cody rfith refpeSt to their Credulity or Wariness in Believing. o N E amongst thzfeve,Canseswhichhave J2$g largely contributed to an opinion that m thelnfidelitofthepresentTimes. is an Opinion. generally enter-c inquisitive as now. tain'cL, that thisas the only inquisitive and curious Age that Meninformer Times were rajh: Believers, temerarioufly yielding their Assents without sufficiently weighing of Things and that if there hd'been the fame notable Spirit, the. same Learning and Caution abroad there is noix in England, Men wou'd never have given in to several Articles of Belief, which now areesteem'd as certain Truths.. §. 2. If then it can be made appear, that at the Time and on A:2.J D'fe"/ the Place where our Saviour acted, pr"ve "opinion and which was the Stage of all ffi. his Ministry, the Scene of all his Life and Actions, there was reigning all the while amongst those he had to do with, the greatest Spirit of diffidence and jbynefs to believe, that was ever known , and that no Age could exceed, if any could ever match it for prodigious C Caution Caution and Distrust then we may rest assur'd, that the Disciples which were made to the Religion of Jesus, were in a manner forc'd into it by the pure dint of Truth j and that it was not till after a striB Examination of the Works pretending to be miraculous, that they believed him a real Worker of Miracles j nor till after a nice Observation of his Life and Doctrine, that they admitted of him as a Teacher sent from God. Hence will arise this indubitable Consequence , that if the Men of that Time, after/all their Wariness zndstriB Examination of our Saviour's ABs and Miracles, were notwithstanding deceived, t...

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