 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...might be intended, that Events, as they come to pafs, mould open and afcertain the Meaning of feveral Parts of Scripture. It may be objected, that this Analogy fails in a material RefpecV. for that natural Knowledge is of little or no Confequence. But I have been fpeaking of the... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind, several thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, *Heb. vi. 1. f Actsiii. 21.. that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, ' ' - . '/••''• * Heb. vi. 1. f Acts iii. 21. 1 4 that events, as they come to pass, should open... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand...objected, that this analogy fails in a material respect; fo» that natural knowledge is of little or no consequence. But I have been speaking of the general... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1824 - 478 pages
...which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, * Heb. vi. I. f Acts iii. 21. that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning... | |
 | Apologetics - 1834 - 588 pages
...which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand...natural knowledge is of little or no consequence. But 1 have been speaking of the general instruction, which nature does or does not afford us. And besides,... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1834 - 414 pages
...which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand...ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture. 1 Heb. vi. l. 2 Acte jii. 21It may be objected,, that this analogy fails in a material respect : for... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1834 - 408 pages
...which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand...ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture. 1 Heb. vi. l. 2 Acts Hi. 21. It may be objected, that this analogy fails in a material respect : for... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 734 pages
...giving this character of scripture. The sentence of Butler (chap, iii., part 2, of the Analogy) is — " And possibly it might be intended that events, as...ascertain the meaning of several parts of scripture." Lord Bacon thus speaks — " We must remember, that to God, the author of the scriptures, those two... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind, several thousand...instruction which nature does or does not afford us. * Heb. vi. 1. f Acts Hi. 21. And besides, some parts of natural knowledge, in the more common restrained... | |
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... should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession... 
