 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...  Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - Page 501by George Campbell - 1807 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Unitarianism - 1845 - 880 pages
...we are reminded of that insidious sentence in Hume's Essay on Miracles' — " 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." There is one portion of the reasoning of this book more essential to its conclusions than any other.... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 pages
...God himself, who conducted the pen of the inspired writers ! " and again, " 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." These protests however were made briefly and coldly, and in such a manner as made people feel, that... | |
 | 1846 - 810 pages
...belief, that the hypocrisy of the following sentences would not be transparent : ' 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;' — and again, 'as if the testimony of man could ever be put in the balance with that of God himself,... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 676 pages
...himself, who conducted the pen of the inspired writers." And again, " Our most holy religion is founded in faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure" It would have been strange indeed if Whitefield and Erskine had made common cause with a man who held... | |
 | Andrews Norton - Apologetics - 1852 - 412 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." What Hume said in derision has been virtually repeated, apparently in earnest, by some of the modern... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...relit/ion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason, pur most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by I no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, slet us examine those miracles related in Scripture... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1854 - 374 pages
...undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason ; our most holy religion is founded on ' >'///. not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no mcaus ñttcd to endure."18 Hume is repeatedly at pains to protest against bis being supposed to be... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - Theology, Doctrinal - 1856 - 304 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. To make this more evident, let us examine these miracles related in Scripture ; and not to lose ourselves... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - Free thought - 1857 - 360 pages
...undertaken to defend it by the prinfiples of human reason : our most holy religion is founded on laith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it. to put it to sncn a trial as it is hy no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let ns examine those... | |
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