 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 596 pages
...of a law of nature," plainly shows that he meant tu include human nature : no testimony," says he, " is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish :"... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 600 pages
...a law of nature," plainly shows that he meant to include human nature : no testimony," says he, 'Us sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavgrs to establish :"... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...would be sufficient to establish the credibility even of a miracle. " No testimony,"' says he, -f-"is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. — When any one tells me, that he saw a... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1829 - 236 pages
...change which I propose, is, to substitute the word improbable for miraculous. And it will then read, no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...improbable than the fact which it endeavours to establish. The ground of objection to the word miraculous, is, that it involves a false principle, which is, that... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Apologetics - 1829 - 230 pages
...than that unalterable experience should be violated. Hence he lays it down, as a plain consequence, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...of such a' kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. To an unsophisiicaied intellect, this reasoning... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...testimony would be sufficient to establish the credihility even of a miracle. ' No testimony,' says he, ' is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...Be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the tact which it endeavours to establish. — When any one tells me, that he saw •... | |
 | William Henry Rowlatt - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...establish a miracle, unless it be of such a kind, that its falsehood 1 Paley's Evidences, vol. ip 111. u 2 would be more improbable than the fact which it : endeavours to establish \" Such appears to have been the case of the Evangelists. — They had ample means of knowing the truth... | |
 | James Douglas - Apologetics - 1831 - 264 pages
...Hume referred to is the following, which he calls " a general maxim, worthy of our attention :" — " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish ; and, even in that case, there is a mutual... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1832 - 270 pages
...change which I propose, is to substitute the word improbable, for miraculous. And it will then read, No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...falsehood would be more improbable, than the fact which it endeavors to establish. The ground of objection to the word, miraculous, is, that it involves a false... | |
 | George Hill - Apologetics - 1833 - 604 pages
...to this case the words of Mr. Hume, although he certainly did not mean them to be so applied : .. " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." The falsehood of the testimony of the apostles... | |
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That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish... 
