Christianity, soliciting admission into all nations of the world, abstained, as behoved it, from intermeddling with the civil institutions of any. But does it follow, from the silence of scripture concerning them, that all the civil institutions which... The Parliamentary Debates - Page 279by Great Britain. Parliament - 1824Full view - About this book
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| William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
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| William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
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| William Paley - 1824 - 472 pages
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