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The Evidences and Doctrines of the Catholic Church: Showing That the Former Are No Less Convincing Than the Latter Are Propitious to the Happiness of Society
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To deduce the Evidences of the Catholic Church from the primitive source of Revelation, and illustrate the speculative truth of its doctrines, as well as their prac tical in?uence on the happiness of society, is the object of this volume. From the highest origin of religious knowledge, the reader is conducted along its varied course, as it descended through the land of Judea, or diverged among the other nations of the earth. As he traces it through the latter countries, he is enabled to mark the diminutions which it sustained by straying amidst the regions of ignorance or philosophy; whilst.
To deduce the Evidences of the Catholic Church from the primitive source of Revelation, and illustrate the speculative truth of its doctrines, as well as their prac tical in?uence on the happiness of society, is the object of this volume. From the highest origin of religious knowledge, the reader is conducted along its varied course, as it descended through the land of Judea, or diverged among the other nations of the earth. As he traces it through the latter countries, he is enabled to mark the diminutions which it sustained by straying amidst the regions of ignorance or philosophy; whilst.
566 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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July 1, 2021
A bit hard to read at the start, his writing style, which is complex even for the 1800s, takes some getting used to. Once you get passed that, you see he has a lot of good arguments and points and his ending section about the sacraments guiding life is really beautiful
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