| Robert Aspland - 1845 - 878 pages
...we are reminded of that insidious sentence in Hume's Essay on Miracles — " Our most holy religion 7j֊ YE a^ c H> >.7h F0= tb Dn . C b ~- A% ( b> 5; ... C M i g =I dZ(d 0 x . ` =F I .ڕ There is one portion of the reasoning of this book more essential to its conclusions than any other.... | |
| John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 pages
...God himself, who conducted the pen of the inspired writers ! " and again, " 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." These protests however were made briefly and coldly, and in such a manner as made people feel, that... | |
| 1846 - 810 pages
...belief, that the hypocrisy of the following sentences would not be transparent : ' 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;' — and again, 'as if the testimony of man could ever be put in the balance with that of God himself,... | |
| English literature - 1847 - 676 pages
...himself, who conducted the pen of the inspired writers." And again, " Our most holy religion is founded in faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure" It would have been strange indeed if Whitefield and Erskine had made common cause with a man who held... | |
| Andrews Norton - Apologetics - 1852 - 412 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 - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...relit/ion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason, pur most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by I no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, slet us examine those miracles related in Scripture... | |
| Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1854 - 374 pages
...undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason ; our most holy religion is founded on ' >'///. not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no mcaus ñttcd to endure."18 Hume is repeatedly at pains to protest against bis being supposed to be... | |
| Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - Theology, Doctrinal - 1856 - 304 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. To make this more evident, let us examine these miracles related in Scripture ; and not to lose ourselves... | |
| John Shertzer Hittell - Free thought - 1857 - 360 pages
...undertaken to defend it by the prinfiples of human reason : our most holy religion is founded on laith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it. to put it to sncn a trial as it is hy no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let ns examine those... | |
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