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...eclectic system was brought to perfection by Ammonius Saccas, who blended Christianity with his philosophy, and founded the sect of the Ammonians, or New Platonis ...tion might, with great advantage, be formed between its system and that of Christianity. This union appeared the more desirable, when several philosophers of this ...

...e doctrine is reported to have been an assemblage of paganism, judaism and christianity. They adored the most high God with the Christians; but they also revered f ...

...of Simon Magus, who united the principles of his philosophy, with those of Christianity; and were distinguished by the appellation of ''Gnostics'', from their boas ...y were easily induced to connect their fundamental doctrines with those of Christianity, by supposing him the great messenger expected from above, to deliver men f ...

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..."The Christian Paradoxes," being a reprint of "Memorials of Godliness and Christianity," by Herbert Palmer, B.D.{{ref|297}} With Introduction, Memoir, and Notes, ...the {{pagenum|142}} Continent, have taken him as sneering at (Athanasian) Christianity right and left. Many Englishmen have taken him to be quite in earnest, and ...

...that holy and mystical body to which the sacraments and the ordinances of Christianity are entrusted. {{pagenum|32}} H. Indeed! E. It is beyond a doubt (here he q ...ing but to name the judges. To vary the metaphor, those who have looked at Christianity in open day, know that all who see it through painted windows shut out much ...

...at this explanation. A review called the ''Christian Observer'' (of which Christianity I do not know) got up a crushing article against me. I did not look at it, 1. In the very earliest age of Christianity, a controversy arose as to the mode of keeping Easter, some desiring to per ...

...other in any matter whatsoever? By occasional confusion between theism and Christianity; by taking advantage of the formal phrases of adhesion to the Roman Church, Had I taken in theology, I must have entered books against Christianity. I mention the above, and Paine's ''Age of Reason'', simply because they ar ...

...at large of dreading, lest by the actual presence of the other world their Christianity should imbibe a spiritual element which would unfit it for the purposes of ...s once made on Paley's{{ref|369}} Evidences—'Well! if there be anything in Christianity, this man is no fool." And, if he should chance to remember it, he will be ...

...ncrease with the square of the time, how long it will take the evidence of Christianity to die out. He finds, by formulæ, that had it been oral only, it would have ...

...t the final restoration of the infernal spirits, from the earliest ages of Christianity until our own day: a collection of them would be worth making. On reading t ...

...to the necessarily mysterious nature of certain doctrines of his system of Christianity. But all the difficulty and mystery of the impossible quantity is now clear ...