 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
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...above established. 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... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1857 - 360 pages
...prophecies : and indeed all prophecies are real miracles, and as such ouly can be admitted as proof of any revelation. If it did not exceed the capacity of human nature to foretell human events, it would be absurd to employ any prophecy as argument for a divine mission or... | |
 | J. Muehleisen Arnold - 1859 - 546 pages
...praedicationes, quibu-s eventus respondit, per div. omruscientiam." Hume asserts in his Essays on miracles: "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... | |
 | John Muehleisen Arnold - 1859 - 542 pages
...praedieationes, quibus eventua respondit, per div. ommjcientiam." Hume asserts in his Essays on miracles: "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... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1859 - 730 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." 2 They may even be said to be peculiarly adapted, in the present age of extended... | |
 | John Muehleisen Arnold - 1866 - 524 pages
...praedieationes , qv.ibun erentus respontlit , per div. omnincientiatn." Hume asserts in his Essays on miracles: "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... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1872 - 170 pages
...prophecy is patent to all, and is taking place before our eyes day by day. "All prophecies," says Hume, "are real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proofs of any revelation." The possibilitj of prophecy might be denied, as well as the possibility of a miracle. But this denial... | |
 | Thomas Stevenson - 1879 - 176 pages
...miracles," says Hume, " may be applied without any variation to prophecies ; and, indeed, all prophecies are miracles, and as such only, can be admitted as proofs of any revelation." (Hume's Essays, vol. ii. p. 129.) On Hume's own testimony, then, we conclude that it is only by supernatural... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith - 1882 - 260 pages
...on it, show the divine plan running through history. Prophecy implies omniscience and omnipotence. "All prophecies are real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proof of revelation." (Hume, Phil. Essays.) " To declare a thing shall come to be, long before it is... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1892 - 636 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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