A Dissertation on Miracles: Containing an Examination of the Principles Advanced by David Hume in An Essay on Miracles; with a Correspondence on the Subject by Mr. Hume, Dr. Campbell, and Dr. Blair, to which are Added Sermons and TractsT. Tegg, 1824 - 362 Seiten |
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... actions ; that is , our knowledge of " human nature from experience ? Or why it is different ? I 66 suppose we conclude an honest man will not lie to us , in the " same manner as we conclude that he will not 6 PREFACE .
... actions ; that is , our knowledge of " human nature from experience ? Or why it is different ? I 66 suppose we conclude an honest man will not lie to us , in the " same manner as we conclude that he will not 6 PREFACE .
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... suppose again , that instead of meeting with any person who can inform me concern- ing the fact , I get from some , who are acquainted with the wit- ness , information concerning his character . They tell me , he is notorious for lying ...
... suppose again , that instead of meeting with any person who can inform me concern- ing the fact , I get from some , who are acquainted with the wit- ness , information concerning his character . They tell me , he is notorious for lying ...
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... suppose a number of com- ' mon facts , so and so circumstanced , of which one had no kind ' of proof , should happen to come into one's thoughts , every one would , without any possible doubt , conclude them to be ' false . The like may ...
... suppose a number of com- ' mon facts , so and so circumstanced , of which one had no kind ' of proof , should happen to come into one's thoughts , every one would , without any possible doubt , conclude them to be ' false . The like may ...
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... ( suppose Lazarus ) to life , I should retort : • Neither you , Sir , nor any who live in this century , can have experience , that a dead man could not be restored to life at the command of one divinely commissioned to give a revela ...
... ( suppose Lazarus ) to life , I should retort : • Neither you , Sir , nor any who live in this century , can have experience , that a dead man could not be restored to life at the command of one divinely commissioned to give a revela ...
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... Suppose all authors , in all languages , agree , that from ' the 1st January 1600 , there was a total darkness over the ' whole earth for eight days ; suppose that the tradition of this ' extraordinary event is still strong and lively ...
... Suppose all authors , in all languages , agree , that from ' the 1st January 1600 , there was a total darkness over the ' whole earth for eight days ; suppose that the tradition of this ' extraordinary event is still strong and lively ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 199 - And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Seite 160 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. 56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Seite 156 - And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also...
Seite 307 - And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said ; Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did ? But he turned and rebuked them, and said ; Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Seite 298 - Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Seite 221 - God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our strength, and with all our mind.™ Q.
Seite 39 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...
Seite 197 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Seite 160 - And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before his face : and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
Seite 117 - 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 : and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.