Remarks on the credibility of miraclesJ. Green, 1841 - 20 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 15 - 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.
Σελίδα 3 - A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a, particular •volition of the Deity ^ or by the interposition of some in-visible agent.
Σελίδα 15 - And, as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact, against the existence of any miracle ; nor can such a proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible, but by an opposite proof which is superior.
Σελίδα 7 - The Healing of the Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple...
Σελίδα 8 - CCXCV. THE MAN WHO WAS BORN BLIND. NE day, as Jesus was walking, he met a beggar who had been born blind. Jesus loved to do good to all, and he was ready to cure this poor man. He opened his eyes in a very wonderful way. He spit on the ground, and made clay, and anointed the eyes of the blind man, and said to him, " Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.
Σελίδα 15 - ... very different thing. We have no right to set our nature up as the measure of all nature. This is merely the mind's assumption ; and it is important to expose its real emptiness, because all Hume's philosophy turns upon this, which he imagines to be a rigid axiom, to which all argument must recur. " A firm and unalterable experience has established the laws of nature. The proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Σελίδα 20 - ... transgression of the law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent i11Sn.1.