 | Christopher Benson - Apologetics - 1826 - 524 pages
...important maxim ; '•' 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 it endeavours to establish." And even in that case he maintains, that " there is a mutual destruction... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...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 dead man restored to life,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Apologetics - 1829 - 230 pages
...as a plain consequence, 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. To an unsophisiicaied intellect, this reasoning will, I think, appear... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...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 • i dead man restored... | |
 | William Henry Rowlatt - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...miracles were credited upon a principle laid down by the author himself, to whom I have been alluding. " That no testimony is sufficient to 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... | |
 | George Hill - Apologetics - 1833 - 604 pages
...them to be so applied : .. " 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." The falsehood of the testimony of the apostles would be more miraculous,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 614 pages
...ostentatiously produced is, — ' 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.' — Essays, vol. ii. p. 123. In reply — we must begin by observing... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...ostentatiously produced is, — ' Tluit no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous them the fact which it endeavours to establish.' — Essays, vol. ii. p. 123. In reply — we must... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1836 - 324 pages
...Christian writer a sentence so surcharged with prejudice. But, to do justice to Mr. Hume — though he seems to have closed the door against all discussion...sufficient to establish a miracle, unless it be of tsiich a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact." An ingenious writer* has... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Natural theology - 1837 - 266 pages
...worthy of our attention), 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 : and even in that case " there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... | |
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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... 
