Dissertations on the Prophecies e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. But such is the temper and genius of infidels; they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they aflirm and so betray their own ignorance, ra ther than acknowledge the force of divine truth; and assert things without the least shadow or colour of proof, rather than admit the strongest proofs of di vine revelation.~ It betrays ignorance indeed, alto gether unworthy of persons of liberal education, not to know when such and such authors flourished, and such and such remarkable events happened; and it must be something worse than ignorance to assert things without the least shadow or colour of proof, contrary to all the marks and characters by which We judge of the truth and genuineness of ancient au thors, contrary to the whole tenor of history, both sacred and profane, which in this respect give won derful light and assistance to each other; and yet these are the men, who would be thought to see far ther and to know more than other people, and will believe nothing without evident proof and demon stration.