 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]. - Seite 92von Thomas Mortimer - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1847 - 414 Seiten
...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. '' — Hume's Eaay, (At the end.) " The sacred writers... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1848 - 488 Seiten
...believe a miracle until he .sees it. " Whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, (such a miracle,) is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." Shortly before this passage, Hume declares that the... | |
 | 1848 - 526 Seiten
...reasonable persons, 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 Lis own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination... | |
 | William Paley - 1848 - 462 Seiten
...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 toward God, and... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1851 - 418 Seiten
...properly a subject of derision than of argument, and that " whoever believes the Christian religion is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. At the time when Mr. Hume wrote, and with his great... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1853 - 498 Seiten
...believe a miracle until he sees it. " Whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, (such a miracle,) is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." Shortly before this passage, Hume declares that the... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1854 - 410 Seiten
...reasonable person without one. Merc 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." — Hume's Essay, (at the end.) » * we are to be... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 Seiten
...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. SECTION xr. OF A PARTICULAR PROVIDENCE AND OF A FUTURE... | |
 | William Henry Starr - 1857 - 308 Seiten
...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." How much mischief this blasphemous sneer has accomplished by planting the seeds of infidelity in cultivated... | |
 | William Henry Starr - 1857 - 308 Seiten
...means fitted to endure." " 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." How much... | |
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