 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Philosophy, Modern - 1862 - 708 pages
...to defend it by the VOL iv., p. principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded lw"15i on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." And again, " So that upon the whole we may conclude that the Christian religion was not only at first... | |
 | John Watts - Free thought - 1865 - 206 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 method of exposing it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' If understood in accordance with the distinction... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Philosophy - 1873 - 744 pages
...principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded 163'1H' on faith, not on reason ; aud it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." And again, " So that upon the whole we may conclude that the Christian religion was not only at first... | |
 | 1875 - 596 pages
...religion, when he has left it, as he supposes, not a leg to stand upon : — " 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." We are not indisposed to believe that Hume's argument will enjoy the immortality he prognosticated... | |
 | James Moncreiff (1st baron.) - 1878 - 714 pages
...inspired writers.'" And again, " Our most holy religion is founded in faith, not on reason ; and it ii a sure method of exposing it, to put it to such a trial as it it by no means fitted to endure.'' It would have been strange indeed if Whitefield and Erskine had... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 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...of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is hy no means fitted to endure. . . . the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Gods, Roman - 1880 - 312 pages
...undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason '. ' Our most holy religion ', he says, ' is founded on faith not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure'. There is a natural affinity between the extremes of scepticism and of authority, as there is between... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero, John Houghton Swainson - Gods, Greek - 1880 - 336 pages
...undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason'. 'Our most holy religion', he says, 'ia founded on faith not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure". There is a natural affinity between the extremes of scepticism and of authority, as there is between... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Fathers of the church - 1882 - 744 pages
...defend it by the voi iv., p. principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded 168"1Ml on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." And again, " So that upon the whole we may conclude that the Christian religion was not only at first... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 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 . . . the Christian religion not only was a£ first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot... | |
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I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most... 
