 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
 | Criticism - 1846 - 632 pages
...scorned, was slow to come to the rescue. Third, the sneer of Hume in the words, " 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," was but too completely justified by the current language of many divines of his day. When they complained... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - German literature - 1886 - 556 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." In France the revolt against ecclesiastical authority, conducted by such men as Voltaire, Condorcet,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 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 those miracles related in Scripture ; and not to lose ourselves... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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 those miracles related in Scripture ; and not to lose ourselves... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 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 those miracles related in Scripture ; and not to lose ourselves... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 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...method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it ia by no means fitted to endure. . . . the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1901 - 222 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 method of exposing it to put 1 In a note to the Essay on Superstition and Enthusiasm, Hume ia careful to define what he means by... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1902 - 419 pages
...have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on f \faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing lit to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1903 - 736 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 those miracles related in Scripture ; and not to lose ourselves... | |
 | James Lumsden - Scottish drama - 1903 - 360 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.' — Hume's Works, vol. iv. pp. 135-153. 1 Must. 5 Woe. 3 Great. 4 Higher uplift and uphold him. ' Discourses,'... | |
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