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. A Theological Dictionary - Σελίδα 138των Charles Buck - 1810Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Charles Buck - 1815 - 546 σελίδες
...nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument...being uniform, and can therefore never preponderate rfgainst tlmt experience which admits of no exception.' This boasted and plausible argument has, with... | |
| 1816 - 774 σελίδες
...a^'iinft a miracle, from the nature of the fact, is jj entire ,13 any argument from experience can I*; whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according to him) is the fole foundation of the evidence of teftimony, is far from being uniform, and can never preponderate... | |
| David Hume - 1817 - 528 σελίδες
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die ; that lead cannot, of itself,... | |
| 1821 - 788 σελίδες
...a linn 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." Many of the friends of Christianity whose writings I have consulted, acknowledge... | |
| 1823 - 880 σελίδες
...veracity, which (according to him) is the l— \ sole foundation of the evidence of testimony, is fur from being uniform, and can. therefore never preponderate...admits of no exception." This boasted and plausible argument has with equal candour and acute ness been examined by Dr Campbell *, who jus) ly observes,... | |
| George Campbell - 1823 - 590 σελίδες
...firm and unalterable experi' ence 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 pos' sibly be imagined *. And if so, it is an undeni' able consequence, that it cannot be surmounted... | |
| Charles Buck - 1824 - 628 σελίδες
...nature, whicli a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from the 鏀 C 퐌 0 ݐ ... ƀ 0 > ؚ ] Ϗ tire sole foundation of the evidence of1 testimony, as far from being uniform, and can therefore never... | |
| John Douglas - 1824 - 268 σελίδες
...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 be possibly imagined.''*—Now it is obvious, from this quotation, that our author's argument against... | |
| Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 σελίδες
...unalterable experience is against the occurrence of miracles, " the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined," and he deduces as a plain and necessary consequence, this general and important... | |
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