The Age of Reason

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1. 01The Age of Reason
2. 02CHAPTER I. THE AUTHOR’S PROFESSION OF FAITH
3. 03CHAPTER II. OF MISSIONS AND REVELATIONS
4. 04CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HIS HISTORY
5. 05CHAPTER IV. OF THE BASES OF CHRISTIANITY
6. 06CHAPTER V. EXAMINATION IN DETAIL OF THE PRECEDING BASES
7. 07CHAPTER VI. OF THE TRUE THEOLOGY
8. 08CHAPTER VII. EXAMINATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
9. 09CHAPTER VIII. OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
10. 10CHAPTER IX. IN WHAT THE TRUE REVELATION CONSISTS
11. 11CHAPTER X. CONCERNING GOD, AND THE LIGHTS CAST ON HIS EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES BY THE BIBLE
12. 12CHAPTER XI. OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIANS; AND THE TRUE THEOLOGY
13. 13CHAPTER XII. THE EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANISM ON EDUCATION; PROPOSED REFORMS
14. 14CHAPTER XIII. COMPARISON OF CHRISTIANISM WITH THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS INSPIRED BY NATURE
15. 15CHAPTER XIV. SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE
16. 16CHAPTER XV. ADVANTAGES OF THE EXISTENCE OF MANY WORLDS IN EACH SOLAR SYSTEM
17. 17CHAPTER XVI. APPLICATION OF THE PRECEDING TO THE SYSTEM OF THE CHRISTIANS
18. 18CHAPTER XVII. OF THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN ALL TIME, AND ALMOST UNIVERSALLY, TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLES
19. 19CHAPTER I. THE OLD TESTAMENT
20. 20CHAPTER II. THE NEW TESTAMENT
21. 21CHAPTER III. CONCLUSION
22. 22Book of Genesis, unless we play fast and loose either with words or
23. 23scene he had witnessed, and Williams’ penitence, and, as the book was
24. 24CHAPTER I.
25. 25CHAPTER II.
26. 26CHAPTER III.
27. 27CHAPTER IV.
28. 28CHAPTER V.
29. 29CHAPTER VI.
30. 30CHAPTER VII.
31. 31CHAPTER VIII.
32. 32CHAPTER IX.
33. 33CHAPTER X.
34. 34CHAPTER XI.
35. 35book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the
36. 36book and school of science, that he discovers any use in their being
37. 37CHAPTER XII.
38. 38scene. But the christian system laid all waste; and if we take our
39. 39CHAPTER XIII.
40. 40CHAPTER XIV.
41. 41CHAPTER XV.
42. 42CHAPTER XVI.
43. 43CHAPTER XVII.
44. 44CHAPTER I.
45. 45chapter, though it is only by saying that Moses called the people of
46. 46chapter the writer speaks again through the whole of the first verse,
47. 47book, xxv. 4, they have taken the phrase, and applied it to tything,
48. 48chapter xviii. of the book called the Book of judges. It is there said
49. 49chapter, that the number of women-children consigned to debauchery by
50. 50book could not have been written till after the time of the latest fact
51. 51chapter, that “his fame was noised throughout all the country.”—I now
52. 52book could not have been written before Jerusalem had been taken. The
53. 53book of Chronicles (after giving the genealogy from Adam to Saul, which
54. 54chapter of each of the books of the prophets; and also of the number of
55. 55book in the Bible is not so ancient as the book of Homer, by more than
56. 56book of Job was, nor how they came by the book, and as it differs in
57. 57chapter of Lemuel, unconnected with anything of prediction. The prayer
58. 58chapter, and the beginning of the 45th [Isaiah] are in the following
59. 59book upon the world as the writing of Isaiah, when Isaiah, according to
60. 60book of Matthew, and the impudence and sordid interest of priests in
61. 61Chapter xxxvii. 11-13, says, “And it came to pass, that, when the army
62. 62chapter xxi. It is there stated, ver. 1, that Zedekiah sent Pashur the
63. 63chapter xxi.) heard the words that Jeremiah spoke unto all the people,
64. 64chapter Iii., 10, 11 was the case; it is there said, that the king of
65. 65CHAPTER II.
66. 66book the name of the saint or the apostle whom tradition had given as
67. 67CHAPTER III.