Evidence of Miracles; Or, An Exhibition of the Testimony By Which We Are ...
Evidence of Miracles; Or, An Exhibition of the Testimony By Which We Are ...
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That the meafufes adopted by the Roman government, for the fiippreflSon ef Chriftianity, were at- tended, in fome degree, with their natu- ral confequences^, appeal's, befide otheif evidence, from th^ letter of Pliny to Tira- jan, quoted above. If, then, the perfe- cutions under which the ChriftiaAs labour^ ed for three centuries^ wete inimical to the Digitized by VjOOQIC PROP, IV. OF MIRACLES. 73 the progrefs of the religion ; they then ferve to ftrengthen the argument, derived from its fubfeq...uent progrefs, in favour of the fuccefs of its firfl propagators.
W Gibbon fuppofes, that previous to Conflantine's converfion, ChrifUanity em- braced no more than a twentieth part of the popularion of the Empire. One of the grounds on which hemakes^this com- putation, is a paffage of Origen, in which that writer reprefents the number of the faithful as inconfid^rable, when compared with the ntaltitude of an unbelievingworld.
Mr Gibbon terms this teflimony unexcep- donible.— But we know that men, attach- ed to religion, difplay fometimes an im- proper difpoiition to exaggerate the pre- valence of infidelity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
That the meafufes adopted by the Roman government, for the fiippreflSon ef Chriftianity, were at- tended, in fome degree, with their natu- ral confequences^, appeal's, befide otheif evidence, from th^ letter of Pliny to Tira- jan, quoted above. If, then, the perfe- cutions under which the ChriftiaAs labour^ ed for three centuries^ wete inimical to the Digitized by VjOOQIC PROP, IV. OF MIRACLES. 73 the progrefs of the religion ; they then ferve to ftrengthen the argument, derived from its fubfeq...uent progrefs, in favour of the fuccefs of its firfl propagators.
W Gibbon fuppofes, that previous to Conflantine's converfion, ChrifUanity em- braced no more than a twentieth part of the popularion of the Empire. One of the grounds on which hemakes^this com- putation, is a paffage of Origen, in which that writer reprefents the number of the faithful as inconfid^rable, when compared with the ntaltitude of an unbelievingworld.
Mr Gibbon terms this teflimony unexcep- donible.— But we know that men, attach- ed to religion, difplay fometimes an im- proper difpoiition to exaggerate the pre- valence of infidelity.
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