Revelation was not a necessitating motive of assent, but a … - John Toland

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Revelation was not a necessitating motive of assent, but a means of information. We should not confound the way whereby we come to the knowledge of a thing with the grounds we have to believe it.

John Toland

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John Toland (30 November 1670 – 11 March 1722) was an Irish-born rationalist philosopher and freethinker.

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If we make a just computation, and take in the primitive martyrs with the Prophets and Apostles themselves, the professed defenders of Truth, only for Truth's sake, will be found to be a small handful with respect to the numerous partisans of error.

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