On the Miraculous and Internal Evidences of the Christian Revelation: And the Authority of Its RecordsLeavitt, Lord, 1836 - 395 pages |
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... possible contemplation . But it does not on that account follow , that we must first study this constitution ere we proceed to the study of any thing else . The powers of the mind are ante- cedent to the acquirements of the mind . But ...
... possible contemplation . But it does not on that account follow , that we must first study this constitution ere we proceed to the study of any thing else . The powers of the mind are ante- cedent to the acquirements of the mind . But ...
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... possible by means of any accession to the testi- mony of these tide - indices , to arrive at a legitimate belief in the occurrence of an anomalous low - water ; or , to express it otherwise , belief in the violation of a wonted order to ...
... possible by means of any accession to the testi- mony of these tide - indices , to arrive at a legitimate belief in the occurrence of an anomalous low - water ; or , to express it otherwise , belief in the violation of a wonted order to ...
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... possible thing that the experience which stands opposed to the testimony of this solitary witness may , singly in the witness itself , be greatly surpassed by the experience in its favour . * The accuracy of the tide - gauge may obtain ...
... possible thing that the experience which stands opposed to the testimony of this solitary witness may , singly in the witness itself , be greatly surpassed by the experience in its favour . * The accuracy of the tide - gauge may obtain ...
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... possible that the credit of such extraordinary events should ever be established by the report of our fellow - men - this was met by Dr. Campbell with the assertion of an evidence in testimony apart from experience and independent of ...
... possible that the credit of such extraordinary events should ever be established by the report of our fellow - men - this was met by Dr. Campbell with the assertion of an evidence in testimony apart from experience and independent of ...
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... possible but frequent , he would proceed to try his eyes upon other objects , or to examine the objects in question by his other senses , that he might know whether or not any such change had taken place in the laws of vision in the ...
... possible but frequent , he would proceed to try his eyes upon other objects , or to examine the objects in question by his other senses , that he might know whether or not any such change had taken place in the laws of vision in the ...
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Page 293 - That the matter of fact be such, as that men's outward senses, their eyes and ears, may be judges of it. 2. That it be done publicly, in the face of the world. 3. That not only public monuments be kept up in memory of it, but some outward actions to be performed. 4. That such monuments and such actions or observances be instituted, and do commence from the time that the matter of fact was done.
Page 242 - This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods, who teacheth all men not to sacrifice, nor to worship...
Page 223 - The works of our Saviour were always conspicuous, for they were real; both those that were healed, and those that were raised from the dead ; who were seen not only when they were healed or raised, but for a long time afterwards: not only whilst he dwelled on this earth, but also after his departure, and for a good while after it, insomuch that some of them have reached to our times *." Justin Martyr came little more than thirty years after Quadratus.
Page 187 - that there are more, and larger quotations of the small volume of the New Testament in this one Christian author, than there are of all the works of Cicero in writers of all characters for several ages...
Page 387 - ... enthusiastic. And objections from this head are not objections against revelation; but against the whole notion of religion, as a trial: and against the general constitution of nature. Secondly, Reason is able to judge, and must, of the evidence of revelation, and of the objections urged against that evidence : which shall be the subject of a following...
Page 71 - 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 of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined...
Page 283 - The last ten years have produced, we think, an annual supply of about ten thousand lines of good staple poetry — poetry from the very first hands that we can boast of — that runs quickly to three or four large editions — and is as likely to be permanent as present success can make it.
Page 272 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
Page 70 - All probability, then, supposes an opposition of experiments and observations, where the one side is found to overbalance the other, and to produce a degree of evidence, proportioned to the superiority.