 I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most...  Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - Sivu 501tekijä(t) George Campbell - 1807 - 503 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | George Campbell - 1824 - 396 sivua
...of the Pentateuch is both partial and imperfect, and consequently stands in need of a revisal***. ' OUR most holy religion,' says the author in the conclusion...understand the fundamental articles of the Christian sys* Tart I. sect. 1. f Sect. 2. \ Sect. 3. || Sect. 4,. § Sect. 5. U Sect. 6. «• Part II. sect.... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 sivua
...rc%i<M, w:ho have undertaken to defend it by the principles. of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture ; and, not to lose ourselves... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 546 sivua
...holy religion is founded * No*. Org. Mi. ii. .i] i ,. 29. »n I-'aith, not on reason ; and it is n sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture ; and, not to lose ourselves... | |
 | 1830 - 690 sivua
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." Gibbon does not " deny the truth of Christianity." So far from this, he speaks of it as " the divine... | |
 | 1830 - 684 sivua
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." Gibbon does not " deny the truth of Christianity." So far from this, he speaks of it as " the divine... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1830 - 212 sivua
...the close of his far famed Essay on Miracles, uses the following language ; " Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to a test, which it is by no means fitted to endure."— And again ; " Mere reason is insufficient to... | |
 | Thomas Harvey Skinner - 1832 - 38 sivua
...hold dispassionate argument with them, they could gain their understand• " Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." Hume's Essay on Miracles. ing, and so commend themselves to their conscience, and make judges and kings... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 sivua
...reason (of whom, by the by, Lord Bacon was one, and Sir Isaac Newton another). Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. (Hume's Essays, § 10, vol. ii. pp. 136-7, edit Edinb. 1800.) If these words may not justly be retorted... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1836 - 294 sivua
...religion who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to sndure.-^Humfs Essays $ 10, v. ii. p. 136-7, Ed. Edin. 1800.) If these words may not justly be retorted... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 sivua
...principles of human reason. Our most holy religion," saith he, " is founded on faith, not on reason :f and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it...such a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure." And he calls those, • Le Moyne on Miracles, p. 422, &c. f This author, who takes care to make the... | |
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