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Dr. Conyers Middleton

English scholar whose work on miracles is cited by Paine.

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Also known as Middleton

First appearance: the age of reason

Dr. Conyers Middleton shows up with force in The Book of John. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Quoted at length to support the argument that the law of nature revealed in creation is the true divine standard, against which all revelations must be judged.
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