 A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.  Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - Pàgina 416per George Campbell - 1807 - 503 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pàgines
...miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as> a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very, nature... | |
 | John David Macbride - 1835 - 478 pàgines
...maintain that no miracle, however attested, can ever be rendered credible even in the lowest degree. A miracle, says he, is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 402 pàgines
...prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1836 - 480 pàgines
...miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature : and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1836 - 520 pàgines
...miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1836 - 324 pàgines
...Variable experience amounts only to probability — invariable experience, to certainty. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 426 pàgines
...prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1836 - 324 pàgines
...entire proof; in that case there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 pàgines
...had not had a previous and independent faith in testimony, we could never have acquired." Again — " A miracle," says he, " is a violation of the laws of nature, and, as a firm and unalterable experience hath established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1837 - 266 pàgines
...with the doctrines in confirmation of which miracles were ' wrought.' "* Hume contends that a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle from the very nature... | |
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