Criterion; Or, Rules by which the True Miracles Recorded in the New Testament are Distinquished from the Spurious Miracles of Pagans and PapistsThree points are discussed. First, a refutation of David Hume's "Philosophical essarys concerning Human Understanding and concerning the credibility of miracles, secondly shows the pretended miracles of the pagans of ancient times and of the papists in more modern days, and lastly, the miracles of Jesus Christ shown not to be liable to the objections urged against those of the Abbé Paris. |
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... natural reason and abilities ; if that object be entirely new to him , he will never be able , by the most accurate examination of its sensible qualities , to discover any of its causes and effects . Adam , though his ra- tional ...
... natural reason and abilities ; if that object be entirely new to him , he will never be able , by the most accurate examination of its sensible qualities , to discover any of its causes and effects . Adam , though his ra- tional ...
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... natural reason , when , its corrupted and debased state had involved the human race in all the mischiefs of the most humiliating darkness ; a darkness , which we know was universal , and would have been insuperable , if it had not been ...
... natural reason , when , its corrupted and debased state had involved the human race in all the mischiefs of the most humiliating darkness ; a darkness , which we know was universal , and would have been insuperable , if it had not been ...
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... natural causes to produce ; and , secondly , of events which though not in their own nature miraculous , have , in particular in- stances , been believed to be such from a consideration of the peculiar circumstances under which they ...
... natural causes to produce ; and , secondly , of events which though not in their own nature miraculous , have , in particular in- stances , been believed to be such from a consideration of the peculiar circumstances under which they ...
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... natural cause , and , I flatter myself , that the evi- dence produced in their support will appear to be so very defective and insufficient , as justly to warrant our rejecting them as idle tales that never happened , and the inventions ...
... natural cause , and , I flatter myself , that the evi- dence produced in their support will appear to be so very defective and insufficient , as justly to warrant our rejecting them as idle tales that never happened , and the inventions ...
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... are continued in their Church . And this leads me naturally to observe that , as the Popish ' miracles have always been proposed to those whose superstition . and prejudices previously disposed them to believe without examination , 67.
... are continued in their Church . And this leads me naturally to observe that , as the Popish ' miracles have always been proposed to those whose superstition . and prejudices previously disposed them to believe without examination , 67.
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Page 143 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Page 11 - 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.
Page 143 - And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness, and every disease, among the people.
Page 60 - One of the best attested miracles in all profane history, is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria, by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot...
Page 21 - Thus, suppose, all authors, in all languages agree that from the first of January 1600 there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: Suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people: That all travellers, who return from foreign countries, bring us accounts of the same tradition, without the least variation or contradiction. It is evident that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain,...
Page 14 - Adam, though his rational faculties be supposed, at the very first, entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water that it would suffocate him, or from the light and warmth of fire that it would consume him.
Page 143 - Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Page 143 - And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; 36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Page 21 - For I own, that otherwise, there may possibly be miracles, or violations of the usual course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony; though, perhaps, it will be impossible to find any such in all the records of history.
Page 144 - And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. 58. And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.