 So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity...  The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer]. - Page 92by Thomas Mortimer - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Robert William Mackay - 1863 - 416 lehte
...day it cannot be believed without one. Mere reason cannot convince us of its veracity ; and he who is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe all that is most contrary to custom and experience."1 Here we have a signal illustration of the grand... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - 1870 - 396 lehte
...miracle. "Mere reason," he assures us, " is insufficient to convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of...subverts all the principles of his understanding." The theosophic foundation of the Bhuddistic Maya, or Universal Illusion, has been finely alluded to... | |
 | 1872 - 778 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person." Now, however he intended we should read that, it is in fact literally true; there is a line of Divine... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1873 - 744 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 496 lehte
...without one. Merc reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And 1 Dodwell, p. no. whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to reason and experience.' Dodwell's irony, however, seems to have puzzled some... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - 1879 - 442 lehte
...is insufficient to convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is BHUDDISTIC, OR BOODISTIC, MA YA. 129 moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a...subverts all the principles of his understanding." The theosophic foundation of the Bhuddistic Maya, or Universal Illusion, has been finely alluded to... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1879 - 304 lehte
...applies fully to his own case. His unbelief in the midst of Gospel light is a miracle and a marvel which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a sullen determination to believe what is at once most dishonourable and blasphemous towards God, and... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1882 - 744 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives... | |
 | 1883 - 836 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives... | |
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