 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.  Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - Page 416by George Campbell - 1807 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - Apologetics - 1849 - 654 pages
...Variable experience amounts only to probability — invariable experience, to certainty. 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... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Miracles - 1852 - 356 pages
...consider, what, by his own account, is the strength of the proof from experience : — ' A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; — and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1853 - 588 pages
...dissolve into thin air. We will state Mr. Hume's argument in his own words : "A miracle," saysh^ " 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... | |
 | Edward Miall - Apologetics - 1853 - 464 pages
...miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now 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... | |
 | sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853 - 282 pages
...the form of a syllogism in the first figure ; and for that very reason it is nugatory. " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | George Long - Apologetics - 1855 - 368 pages
...to fall into such an error. In a former part of the essay he thus expresses himself: — "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - Theology, Doctrinal - 1856 - 304 pages
...be a witness to the power of the Gospel of a very valuable kind. ' NOTE 18. Hume says, " 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... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...than has ever been called forth by the wit of man before by the same number of words: — '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... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - Apparitions - 1860 - 542 pages
...is, does not himself fail in the very wisdom he exacts. He says, in the same chapter, — "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... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 698 pages
...to the established course of nature, is taken by men to be divine."2 "A miracle," says Mr. Hume,' " 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... | |
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