An Apology for the Bible
An Apology for the Bible

Author: Richard Watson, Philosopher

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-22

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781358618949

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An Apology for the Bible
An Apology for the Bible

Author: Richard Watson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780428726539

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Excerpt from An Apology for the Bible: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a Book Entitled, the Age of Reason, Part the Second, Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology A fever, which you and thofe about you ex peeled' would prove mortal, made you remember with renewed fatisfaelion, that you had written: the former part of your Age of Reafon - and you know therefore, you fay, by experience, the' confcientious trial of your own principles. I admit this declaration to be a proof of the lime rity of your perfuafion; but I cannot admit it to be any proof of the truth of your principles What is confcience Is-it, as has been thought, an internal monitor implanted in /us by the Sn} preme' Being, and' diet-ating to us, tonxall'occav lions, what is right or wrong? Or is it'mercly. Our own judgment of the moral reetitude or turn pitude of our own aetions? I take-theiwordfi (withlvir. Locke) in the latter, as iii-the Gilly intelligible ichfe. Now, who fees not that our: judgmentsof virtue and vice, right and wrong, are not always forined from an enlightened and, di'fpaflionate ufe of our reafon, in the' invelliga tion of truth? They are more generally formed. From the nature of the religion we profefs from the quality of the civil government under'which we live; from the general manners of the age, or the particular manners of theperfons with whom we afl'ociate; from the-educiation we have had in our youth; from the books we have read at a more advanced period; and fromother-'accid'ental caules. (who fees not that, on this account. 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.

An Apology for the Bible
An Apology for the Bible

Author: Richard Watson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781527646230

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Excerpt from An Apology for the Bible: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a Book Entitled, the Age of Reason, Part the Second, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology I have thou ht fit to make this remark, with a view of lugg 'ng to yhu a confideration of reat Int rtance - whether -you have examined camly, 'an according to the belt of your ability, the argu ments by which the truth of revealed religion may, in the dgrnent of learned and impartial men, he efiablige'd - You will allow, that thoulands of learned and impariial men, (i [peak not of priel'ls. 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.