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 - Página 416por George Campbell - 1807 - 503 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Kerr - 1811 - 522 páginas
...miraculous, here 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... | |
| 1815 - 586 páginas
...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 lias established these laws, the proof »gainst a miracle, from the very nature... | |
| 1817 - 780 páginas
...yet it is wholly impossible that such an event should be made credible to me. " A miracle (he says) 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... | |
| George Campbell - 1823 - 590 páginas
...if we had not had a pr&' vious and independent faith in testimony, we ' could never have acquired.' How natural is the transition from one sophism to...violation of the ' laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable ex' perience hath established these laws, the proof ' against a miracle is as entire as... | |
| 1823 - 876 páginas
...miraculous, here arises a contest of two opposite " experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a mi" racle 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 на"... | |
| George Campbell - 1824 - 396 páginas
...if we had ' not had a previous and independent faith in testimony, we could ' rtcver have acquired.' How natural is the transition from one sophism to...strain of the argument. ' A miracle,' says he, ' is a viola' tion of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable cxpe' rience hath established these... | |
| John Douglas - 1824 - 268 páginas
...reverse it. But this, we know, has been denied by a late very ingenious, but very sceptical author. " 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... | |
| Archibald Alexander - 1825 - 256 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 682 páginas
...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 Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 684 páginas
...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... | |
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