Matthew Tindal quotes

Matthew Tindal quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.”
-- Matthew Tindal

Source : 'The Will of Matthew Tindal' (1733) p. 23

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“(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.”
-- Matthew Tindal

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“God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason.”
-- Matthew Tindal

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“I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.”
-- Matthew Tindal

Source : Matthew Tindal (1730). “Christianity as Old as the Creation: Or, The Gospel, a Republication of the Religion of Nature. |. ...”, p.342

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“Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that "It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.”
-- Matthew Tindal

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