 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
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 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... | |
 | 1861 - 838 pages
...Miracles. Home paraded it as invincible ; it is now discarded as worthless. Hume affirms — "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 miracle,... | |
 | William Thomson, William Thomson (Abp. of York) - Bible - 1862 - 558 pages
...received no substantial addition from the labours of subsequent writers on the same side: " 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... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1862 - 1156 pages
...establish." No fnch testimony can be had, therefore miracles arc not capable of proof. " 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 is as entire as any... | |
 | John Nash Griffin - Essays and reviews - 1862 - 354 pages
...this objection is, in truth, just the old one of Hume. This Deistical writer says * :— " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience hath established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Apologetics - 1863 - 372 pages
...prevail, but still with a diminution of its force in proportion to that of its antagonist. 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... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 pages
...than Mr. Hume, wrote a book to convince the world chiefly on this point. He 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... | |
 | Christianity - 1863 - 534 pages
...possibility, is exactly the same as when the argument was stated by Hume, as follows:— ' 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... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1863 - 732 pages
...the witnesses of miracles were not the spectators of them only: the prime witnesses * " A miracle la 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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