A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in England in the Last and Present Century: With Observations Upon Them, and Some Account of the Answers that Have Been Published Against Them. In Several Letters to a Friend, Том 2B. Dod, 1755 - Всего страниц: 483 |
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... mind of a confi- derable omiffion I had been guilty of in not taking notice of Mr. Hume , who was looked upon to be one of the moft fubtil writers that had of late appeared against Christianity . About the fame time appeared a pompous ...
... mind of a confi- derable omiffion I had been guilty of in not taking notice of Mr. Hume , who was looked upon to be one of the moft fubtil writers that had of late appeared against Christianity . About the fame time appeared a pompous ...
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... mind to draw fuch an inference ‡ . " The only ground of fuch an inference , is the fuppofed resemblance between the past and " and the future ; but that it is impoffible 62 any argument , from experience , fhould prove " that ...
... mind to draw fuch an inference ‡ . " The only ground of fuch an inference , is the fuppofed resemblance between the past and " and the future ; but that it is impoffible 62 any argument , from experience , fhould prove " that ...
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... mind , and infallible in its ope- rations * : Yet afterwards , fpeaking of the fame custom or instinct , he fays ... minds . If what our author offers on this head , had been only to difplay the fubtilty of his meta- phyfical genius ...
... mind , and infallible in its ope- rations * : Yet afterwards , fpeaking of the fame custom or instinct , he fays ... minds . If what our author offers on this head , had been only to difplay the fubtilty of his meta- phyfical genius ...
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... mind , in such cases , when it fees an effect pro- duced , is led , by a quick and undoubted pro- cefs of reasoning , to acknowlege that there must be a cause which hath a power of produc ing it ; or else we must say , that it is ...
... mind , in such cases , when it fees an effect pro- duced , is led , by a quick and undoubted pro- cefs of reasoning , to acknowlege that there must be a cause which hath a power of produc ing it ; or else we must say , that it is ...
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... mind a power of raifing up ideas , and recalling them , and fixing the attention upon them , because we cannot explain how this is done . The argument Mr. Hume offers to prove , that we can have no af- furance of the reality of force or ...
... mind a power of raifing up ideas , and recalling them , and fixing the attention upon them , because we cannot explain how this is done . The argument Mr. Hume offers to prove , that we can have no af- furance of the reality of force or ...
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Стр. 62 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Стр. 434 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Стр. 10 - But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea, or the aptitude of the one to produce the other?
Стр. 82 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of...
Стр. 497 - God will bring every work into judgment, with every fecret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Стр. 61 - ... there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist.
Стр. 473 - God ? haft thou not known ? haft thou not heard, that the everlafting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no fearching of his underftanding. He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might, he increafeth ftrength.
Стр. 625 - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required : and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Стр. 352 - ... of the rants of the Portic, that we owe our virtue to ourselves, not to God. It would be equally false to say, that we owe our happiness to ourselves, not to God. But this may be said with truth, that God, when he gave us reason, left us to our free-will to make a proper, or improper, use of it: so that we are obliged to our Creator for a certain rule and sufficient means of arriving at happiness, and have none to blame but ourselves, when we fail of it.
Стр. 63 - But, according to the principle here explained, this subtraction with regard to all popular religions amounts to an entire annihilation, and therefore we may establish it as a maxim that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.