...by what means the Fivouiuses Christian faith obtained so remarkable a victory over the ofoiruti*01 established religions of the earth. To this inquiry...ruling providence of its great Author. But as truth and reason seldom find so favourable a reception in the world, and as the wisdoir, of Providence frequently...

...remarkable a victory over the ofChristT*11 established religions of the earth. To this inquiry an <aitf' obvious but satisfactory answer may be returned ;...ruling providence of its great Author. But as truth and reason seldom find so favourable a reception in the world, and as the wisdom of Providence frequently...

...so remarkable, in words at least, less satisfactory. " To this inquiry," he says, " an obvious and satisfactory answer may be returned — that it was...convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and to the overruling providence of its great Author. But as truth and reason seldom find so favourable a reception...

...corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by...providence of its great Author. But, as truth and reason seldom find so favorable a reception in the world, and as the wisdom of Providence frequently...

...introduces it with another most striking and distinct concession of its truth and divine origin : " Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by...religions of the earth. To this inquiry an obvious hut satisfactory answer may be returned — that it was owing to the convincing evidence of the doctrine...

...introduces it with another most striking and distinct concession of its truth and divine origin : — " Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by what means the Christian faith obtained • Preface to Gibbon, p. 19. f Milman's Gibbon, Note, p. 505. £ Milman's Latin Christianity (New...

...corruption, which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.* Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by...was owing to the convincing evidence of the doctrine itself,and to the ruling providence of its great Author. But as truth and reason seldom find so favorable...

...feebleness of the notes of Christian apologists in the fortunately standard edition of Dr. W. Smith. to the convincing evidence of the doctrine itself,...and to the ruling providence of its great Author.' Still, he continues, ' we may be permitted, though with becoming submission, to ask, not indeed what...

...feebleness of the notes of Christian apologists in the fortunately standard edition of Dr. W. Smith. to the convincing evidence of the doctrine itself,...and to the ruling providence of its great Author." Still, he continues, ' we may be permitted, though with becoming submission, to ask, not indeed what...

...Christianity. " Our curiosity," he remarks, " is naturally prompted to inquire by what means the Chiistian faith obtained so remarkable a victory over the established religions of the earth." He then proceeds to the statement of his five causes by which it was effectually favoured and assisted...