 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 - Page 501by George Campbell - 1807 - 503 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Dewar - 1838 - 516 lehte
...Bolingbroke, Voltaire, and Hume, " that our holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason, and that it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to a test which it is by no means fitted to endure." 5. False religion, no less than false philosophy,... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1839 - 844 lehte
...Christian religion, who have undertaken to defend it by 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." Whether said in irony or in earnest, in a hostile spirit or a friendly one, this statement involves,... | |
 | Thomas Harvey Skinner - 1839 - 320 lehte
...is the greatest of impostures, and Christians are, of all men, the most * " 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. to be pitied or despised. But if our religion be founded in truth and reason,... | |
 | Thomas Harvey Skinner - 1839 - 320 lehte
...impostures, and Christians are, of all men, the most * " Our most holy religion is founded on/aitA, not on reason; and' it is a sure method of exposing...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." Hume's Essay on Miracles. to be pitied or despised. But if our religion be founded in truth and reason,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1839 - 296 lehte
...by the principles of human reason, Our most holy religion is founded on faith,, not on reason; aiid it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to such a trial as it is by no means Jilted to endure. --{Hume's Essays $ 10, v. ii. p. 130-7, Ed. Edin. 1800.) If these words may not justly... | |
 | 1840 - 534 lehte
...religion, who undertake to defend it on the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion," says he, " is founded on faith, not on reason, and it is a sure...such a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure." That Mr. Hume discarded the Christian revelation, there can be no doubt. The probability is, that he... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 lehte
...religion, who undertake to defend it on the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion," says he, " is founded on faith, not on reason, and it is a sure...such a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure." That Mr. Hume discarded the Christian revelation, there can be no doubt. The probability is, that he... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 lehte
...religion, who undertake to defend it on the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion," says he, "is founded on faith, not on reason, and it is a sure...such a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure/' That Mr. Hume discarded the Christian revelation, there can be no doubt. The probability is, that he... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1846 - 632 lehte
...to the rescue. Third, the sneer of Hume in the words, " our most holy religion is founded on FnitJi, not on reason, and it is a sure method of exposing...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure," was but too completely justified by the current language of many divines of his day. When they complained... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1845 - 878 lehte
...we are reminded of that insidious sentence in Hume's Essay on Miracles — " Our most holy religion 7j֊ YE a^ c H> >.7h F0= tb Dn . C b ~- A% ( b> 5; ... C M i g =I dZ(d 0 x . ` =F I .ڕ There is one portion of the reasoning of this book more essential to its conclusions than any other.... | |
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