 What we have said of miracles, may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies; and indeed all prophecies are real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proofs of any revelation.  The Quarterly review - Page 1571835Full view - About this book
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 450 pages
...long before it is in being (says Justin Martyr;) arid, then to bring * " All prophecies (says Hume) are real miracles, and as such only, can be admitted as proofs of any revelation." — Phil. EMr,yt. t Gregory's Letters. about the accomplishment of that very thing, according to the... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...cogent and necessary, that the accomplishment of predictions deliv* "All prophecies," says Hume, "arc real miracles, and as such only, can be admitted as proofs of any revelation." Philosophical Essays. ered by those who profess divine authority amounts to a full proof that they... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pages
...miracle of knowledge, is equal to any miracle of power, and could have emanated only from the Deity. " All prophecies are real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proof of any revelation. ' ^ They may even be said to be peculiarly adapted, in the present age of... | |
 | Henry Howarth - 1837 - 228 pages
...the manner here stated. Page 8, line 17. A prophecy fulfilled has the evidence of a miracle, fyc. " All prophecies are real miracles, and as such only,...it did not exceed the capacity of human nature to foretel future events, it would be absurd to employ any prophecy as an argument for a divine mission... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1837 - 266 pages
...extract — *e> " What we have said of miracles, may be applied without " any variation to prophecies ; and indeed all prophecies are " real miracles, and...only can be admitted as proofs " of any revelation. "f The reader who has entered into the reasoning of Chapter VIII. of this fragment will perceive that,... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1837 - 260 pages
...extract — " What we have said of miracles, may he applied without " any variation to prophecies ; and indeed all prophecies are " real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proofs " of any revelation."-fThe reader who has entered into the reasoning of Chapter VIII. of this fragment will... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1838 - 516 pages
...prophecy is evidence of a strictly miraculous character. All prophecies, even according to Mr Hume, are real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proofs of any revelation.* There is thus a divine sanction given to the religious system with which they are incorporated. Miracles,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1839 - 394 pages
...did not exceed the capacity of human nature to foretel future events, it would be absurd to employ any prophecy as an argument for a divine mission or authority from Heaven."* All prophecies, therefore, which are visibly true — instead of being " a subject of derision," as... | |
 | 1842 - 420 pages
...be that fate what it may. No miracles, no prophecy — that is certain. Hume has very well said, " all prophecies are real miracles, and as such only...it did not exceed .the capacity of human nature to lortel future events, it would be absurd to employ any prophecy as an argument for a liivine mission... | |
 | 1843 - 644 pages
...(p. 139, 140,) "What we have said of miracles may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies ; and indeed, all prophecies are real miracles, and...it did not exceed the capacity of human nature to foretell future events, it would be absurd to employ any prophecy as an argument for a divine mission... | |
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