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I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.

— Robert Boyle Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures (1661)

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"Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures" (1661) "Seventh Objection", as quoted in Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God: on Things Above Reason; and on The Style of the Holy Scriptures (1835) p. 182

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