| Andrews Norton - Religious education - 1818 - 1164 pages
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." What Hume said in derision has been virtually repeated, apparently in earnest, by some of the modern... | |
| David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...rc%i<M, w:ho have undertaken to defend it by the principles. of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture ; and, not to lose ourselves... | |
| David Hume - English essays - 1825 - 546 pages
...holy religion is founded * No*. Org. Mi. ii. .i] i ,. 29. »n I-'aith, not on reason ; and it is n sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture ; and, not to lose ourselves... | |
| Congregational churches - 1830 - 684 pages
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." Gibbon does not " deny the truth of Christianity." So far from this, he speaks of it as " the divine... | |
| Congregational churches - 1830 - 690 pages
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." Gibbon does not " deny the truth of Christianity." So far from this, he speaks of it as " the divine... | |
| Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1830 - 212 pages
...the close of his far famed Essay on Miracles, uses the following language ; " Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to a test, which it is by no means fitted to endure."— And again ; " Mere reason is insufficient to... | |
| Thomas Harvey Skinner - Preaching - 1832 - 38 pages
...hold dispassionate argument with them, they could gain their understand• " Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." Hume's Essay on Miracles. ing, and so commend themselves to their conscience, and make judges and kings... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pages
...reason (of whom, by the by, Lord Bacon was one, and Sir Isaac Newton another). Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. (Hume's Essays, § 10, vol. ii. pp. 136-7, edit Edinb. 1800.) If these words may not justly be retorted... | |
| Alexander Keith - Apologetics - 1836 - 294 pages
...religion who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to sndure.-^Humfs Essays $ 10, v. ii. p. 136-7, Ed. Edin. 1800.) If these words may not justly be retorted... | |
| John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...principles of human reason. Our most holy religion," saith he, " is founded on faith, not on reason :f and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it...such a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure." And he calls those, • Le Moyne on Miracles, p. 422, &c. f This author, who takes care to make the... | |
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