 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 - Página 501por George Campbell - 1807 - 503 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Orr - 1903 - 268 páginas
...most holy 1 Works, iv. p. 549. - Ibid. iv. p. 9. —religion," he says, " is founded on Faith, not Reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to...it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to bear." 1 We may conjecture how much " faith " Hume would be prepared to concede to a system against... | |
 | James Lumsden - 1905 - 396 páginas
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the 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.' — Hume's Works, vol. iv., pp. 135-153. t Higher uplift and uphold him. ' Discourses,' ' Hist'ries,'... | |
 | James Lumsden - 1905 - 388 páginas
...undertaken to defend it by the the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on fnit h, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' — Hume's Works, vol. iv., pp. 135-153. ' Discourses,' ' Hist'ries,' 'Politics,'* Whilk thrang'd his... | |
 | David Hume - 1907 - 324 páginas
...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. I- To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture ; and not to lose... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 páginas
...men more to be respected than the latter."—(III. p. 83.) 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. . . . the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 páginas
...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 those miracles related in Scripture ; and not to lose ourselves... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 páginas
...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 . . . the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot... | |
 | Charles John Shebbeare - 1914 - 248 páginas
...therefore warns those who would defend the Christian religion ' by the principles of human reason ' that ' it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to such...a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' If we declare that our religious knowledge arises from ' non-rational ' or ' extrarational ' sources,... | |
 | Arthur Cushman McGiffert - 1915 - 336 páginas
...the close of his famous essay on miracles, published in 1748, Hume remarked: "Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." The words, whatever their motive, meant a complete reversal... | |
 | 1916 - 458 páginas
...trust in reason. Hume said, toward the close of his Essay on Miracles (1748): "Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." A century later Heine wrote: "The instant when a religion... | |
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