 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 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,... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Revelation - 1838 - 516 pages
...evinced by testimony. No testimony, therefore, 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, I... | |
 | William Warburton - 1841 - 496 pages
...worthy 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,... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - Apologetics - 1843 - 468 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." — " When any one tells me," he continues in the same .paragraph,... | |
 | Criticism - 1843 - 644 pages
...attention,) that no testimony is sufficient to estab1843.] Hume. lish a miracle, unless the testimony 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 destruction of arguments,... | |
 | James Smith - Bible - 1843 - 728 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 endeavors to establish : and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... | |
 | M. A - 1848 - 878 pages
...miracles, whatever thick darkness infidels may throw upon the subject. The last argument of Mr. Hume is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact. Now let us meet our bold adversary on his own ground, and endeavour to prove that the testimony of... | |
 | George Griffin - Bible - 1850 - 372 pages
...selfconflicting essay. He admits that . any miracle may be proved by testimony, if " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it endeavors to establish." In the four preceding chapters, we have sought to show, and we trust not... | |
 | George Griffin - Apologetics - 1850 - 370 pages
...his selfconflicting essay. He admits that any miracle may be proved by testimony, if " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it endeavors to establish." In the four preceding chapters, we have sought to show, and we trust not... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1852 - 536 pages
...should be false. " No testimony," he says, " 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." We may turn to the definition usually given by Christian writers... | |
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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... 
