 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 - Pàgina 501per George Campbell - 1807 - 503 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1845 - 880 pàgines
...we are reminded of that insidious sentence in Hume's Essay on Miracles' — " 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." There is one portion of the reasoning of this book more essential to its conclusions than any other.... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 pàgines
...God himself, who conducted the pen of the inspired writers ! " and again, " 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." These protests however were made briefly and coldly, and in such a manner as made people feel, that... | |
 | 1846 - 810 pàgines
...belief, that the hypocrisy of the following sentences would not be transparent : ' 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;' — and again, 'as if the testimony of man could ever be put in the balance with that of God himself,... | |
 | 1847 - 676 pàgines
...himself, who conducted the pen of the inspired writers." And again, " Our most holy religion is founded in faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure" It would have been strange indeed if Whitefield and Erskine had made common cause with a man who held... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1852 - 412 pàgines
...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... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pàgines
...relit/ion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason, pur most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by I no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, slet us examine those miracles related in Scripture... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1854 - 374 pàgines
...undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason ; our most holy religion is founded on ' >'///. not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no mcaus ñttcd to endure."18 Hume is repeatedly at pains to protest against bis being supposed to be... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1856 - 304 pàgines
...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. To make this more evident, let us examine these miracles related in Scripture ; and not to lose ourselves... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1857 - 360 pàgines
...undertaken to defend it by the prinfiples of human reason : our most holy religion is founded on laith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it. to put it to sncn a trial as it is hy no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let ns examine those... | |
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