 | James Buchanan - Essays - 1861 - 278 pages
...cannot be believed by any reasonable person ' without one. Mere reason is insufficient to con' vince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved ' by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continued ' miracle in his own person, which subverts all the ' principles of his... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Philosophy, Modern - 1862 - 708 pages
...first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of...veracity ; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding,... | |
 | Robert William Mackay - Bible - 1863 - 416 pages
...without one. Mere reason cannot convince us of its veracity ; and he who is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own...the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe all that is most contrary to custom and experience."1 Here we have a signal... | |
 | Robert William Mackay - 1863 - 416 pages
...without one. Mere reason cannot convince us of its veracity ; and he who is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own...the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe all that is most contrary to custom and experience."1 Here we have a signal... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - 1870 - 396 pages
...religion cannot be believed by any reasonable person without a miracle. "Mere reason," he assures us, " is insufficient to convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding."... | |
 | 1872 - 778 pages
...first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of...veracity; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person." Now, however he intended we should read that,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Philosophy - 1873 - 744 pages
...first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of...veracity ; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Philosophy, English - 1876 - 504 pages
...first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of...veracity. And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person which subverts all the principles of his understanding,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Philosophy, English - 1876 - 492 pages
...first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And 1 Dodwell, p. no. whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continued miracle in... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of...veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding,... | |
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So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity... 
