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
| Henry Clay Sheldon - 1886 - 506 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...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." Here, to be sure, though his language does not differ... | |
| Lewis French Stearns - 1890 - 500 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...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is contrary to custom and experience."" The great doubter is right in the main point which he... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 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...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. (From An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.) LAURENCE... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. (From An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.) LAURENCE... | |
| John Hunt - 1896 - 592 lehte
...parallel was found in Hume, ' Whosoever believeth the truth of Christianity is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person which subverts all the principles...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to reason and experience.' Belsham added that the confines of orthodoxy and of... | |
| John Hunt - 1896 - 606 lehte
...truth of Christianity is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person The Unitarian Bible 91 which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to reason and experience.' Belsham added that the confines of orthodoxy and of... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 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 Henry Huxley - 1901 - 222 lehte
...its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continual miracle iu his own person, which subverts all the principles...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience."—(IV. pp. 153, 154.) It is obvious that, here and... | |
| David Hume - 1902 - 419 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...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. Jt 8 SECTION XL OF A PARTICULAR PROVIDENCE AND OF A... | |
| John Hepburn Millar - 1903 - 736 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...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." ' It is almost incredible, but so, nevertheless, it... | |
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