A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in England in the Last and Present Century: With Observations Upon Them, and Some Account of the Answers that Have Been Published Against Them. In Several Letters to a Friend, Τόμος 2B. Dod, 1755 - 483 σελίδες |
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... most part , to be calculated rather to amuse , or even confound , than to inftruct and enlighten the understanding : And there are not a few things in them , that ftrike at the foundation of natural , as well as the proofs and evidences ...
... most part , to be calculated rather to amuse , or even confound , than to inftruct and enlighten the understanding : And there are not a few things in them , that ftrike at the foundation of natural , as well as the proofs and evidences ...
Σελίδα 29
... most wife , and powerful , and benign author and caufe of the univerfe . The inference is not beyond the reach of our faculties , but is one of the most obvious that offereth to the human mind . But perhaps what the author intends by ...
... most wife , and powerful , and benign author and caufe of the univerfe . The inference is not beyond the reach of our faculties , but is one of the most obvious that offereth to the human mind . But perhaps what the author intends by ...
Σελίδα 48
... most curious and fub- lime fubjects , with regard to which the most ce- lebrated philofophers had been extremely de- fective in their refearches . And now he begins his Effay on Miracles with declaring That " he " flatters himself that ...
... most curious and fub- lime fubjects , with regard to which the most ce- lebrated philofophers had been extremely de- fective in their refearches . And now he begins his Effay on Miracles with declaring That " he " flatters himself that ...
Σελίδα 59
... most fagacious philofophers , and received as true without hefitation upon the teftimony of perfons who are worthy of credit , without following the author's rules ; or making their own want III . LETTER of experience or obfervation an ...
... most fagacious philofophers , and received as true without hefitation upon the teftimony of perfons who are worthy of credit , without following the author's rules ; or making their own want III . LETTER of experience or obfervation an ...
Σελίδα 60
... most uniform experience is fometimes outweighed by a single teftimony ; because experience in this cafe is only a negative evidence , and the flighteft po- fitive teftimony is for the most part an over - bal- lance to the strongest ...
... most uniform experience is fometimes outweighed by a single teftimony ; because experience in this cafe is only a negative evidence , and the flighteft po- fitive teftimony is for the most part an over - bal- lance to the strongest ...
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Σελίδα 62 - 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 434 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Σελίδα 10 - But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea, or the aptitude of the one to produce the other?
Σελίδα 82 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of...
Σελίδα 497 - God will bring every work into judgment, with every fecret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Σελίδα 61 - ... there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist.
Σελίδα 473 - God ? haft thou not known ? haft thou not heard, that the everlafting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no fearching of his underftanding. He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might, he increafeth ftrength.
Σελίδα 625 - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required : and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Σελίδα 352 - ... of the rants of the Portic, that we owe our virtue to ourselves, not to God. It would be equally false to say, that we owe our happiness to ourselves, not to God. But this may be said with truth, that God, when he gave us reason, left us to our free-will to make a proper, or improper, use of it: so that we are obliged to our Creator for a certain rule and sufficient means of arriving at happiness, and have none to blame but ourselves, when we fail of it.
Σελίδα 63 - But, according to the principle here explained, this subtraction with regard to all popular religions amounts to an entire annihilation, and therefore we may establish it as a maxim that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.