About the Conjunction of Male and Female, <117>
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XIV.
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About the Use of temporal Goods, <120>
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XV.
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Concerning Oaths, <123>
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XVI.
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Concerning other Actions, <123>
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XVII.
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An Answer to the Objection, drawn from the many Controversies among Christians, <124>
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XVIII.
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The Excellency of the Christian Religion, further proved from the Excellency of its Teacher, <125>
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From the wonderful Propagation of this Religion, <130>
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Considering the Weakness and Simplicity of those taught it in the first Age, <134>
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XIX.
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And the great Impediments that hindered Men from embracing it, or deterred them from professing it, <135>
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An Answer to those who require more and stronger Arguments, <138>
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BOOK III.
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I.
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Of the Authority of the Books of the New Testament, <142>
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II.
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The Books that have any Names affixed to them, were writ by those Persons whose Names they bear, <143>
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[print edition page 22]
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III.
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The Doubt of those Books that were formerly doubtful, taken away, <144>
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IV.
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The Authority of those Books which have no Name to them, evident from the Nature of the Writings, <145>
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V.
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That these Authors wrote what was true, because they knew the things they wrote about, <146>
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VI.
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And because they would not say what was false, <147>
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VII.
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The Credibility of these Writers further confirmed, from their being famous for Miracles, <149>
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VIII.
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And of their Writings; because in them are contained many things which the Event proved to be divinely revealed, <151>
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IX.
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And also from the Care that it was fit God should take, that false Writings should not be forged, <151>
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X.
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A Solution of that Objection, that many Books were rejected by some, <152>
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XI.
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An Answer to the Objection, of some things being contained in these Books, that are impossible, <155>
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XII.
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Or disagreeable to Reason, <156>
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XIII.
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An Answer to this Objection, that some things are contained in these Books which are inconsistent with one another, <158>
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