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 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1762 - 762 pages
...ertay, " is founded on faith, not on reafon; and it is a fure method of expofing it, to put it to fuch a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure." If, by our man holy religion, we are to underftand the fundamental articles of the Cliriftian fyllem, thefe have... | |
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...would undertake to defend it by the principles of human reason ? " Our most holy religion-," says he, " is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method to expose it, to put it to the trial of reason." * Our modern philosophers may have been warranted... | |
| Theophilus Lindsey - 1805 - 338 pages
...he intended, the author proceeds, with a smiling grimace, to U,I1 us, ' that our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put if to such a trial as it is by no means filted to endure.' This he pretends to make evident by examining... | |
| David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...human reason. Ottr rnbst holy religion is' fouhd'ed Oh Faith, not on reason; aird it is a sure methb'd of exposing it, to put it to such a trial as it is, by n'o ineans, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...Our most holy religion is founded upon faith, not on reason, and this is a sure method of exposing it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be... | |
| John Fearn - 1815 - 246 pages
...Christianity, with the following sarcastical remark,—" Our most Holy Religion is founded on " Fah' , not on reason; and it is a sure method of " exposing...a trial as it is by no " means fitted to endure." * — Now, it is pretty clear 1 humbly agree with him, that our Religion is founded on FATTH : and... | |
| David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded • NOT. Org. lib. ii. aph. 29. on "Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method...exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no moans fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture;... | |
| David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded * Nov. Org. lib. ii. aph. 29, on Faith* not on reason ; and it is a sure method of ex- > posing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. To make this more... | |
| Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 pages
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the 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." What Hume said in derision has been virtually repeated, apparently in earnest, by some of the modern... | |
| George Campbell - 1823 - 590 pages
...of the Pentateuch is both partial and imperfect, and consequently stands in need of a revisal §. ' Our most holy religion,' says the author in the conclusion...decrees of God ; and as they are antecedent to our faith of reasonings, they must be also independent of both. If they be true, our disbelief can never make... | |
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