The Criterion; Or Rules by which the True Miracles Recorded in the New Testament are Distinguished from the Spurious Miracles of Pagans and Papists |
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... falfe , but the former , it seems , are admitted " as true : but then , how , you fay , can we fairly difpute the authenticity of the one , " and infift fo much on the credibility of " the other ? For , as the teftimony in both " is ...
... falfe , but the former , it seems , are admitted " as true : but then , how , you fay , can we fairly difpute the authenticity of the one , " and infift fo much on the credibility of " the other ? For , as the teftimony in both " is ...
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... falfe . For does it at all follow , that , because there is no connexion discoverable a priori betwixt cause and effect in fome cafes , there is no connexion difcoverable a priori in any cafe ? Because God ( and I pretend to reason with ...
... falfe . For does it at all follow , that , because there is no connexion discoverable a priori betwixt cause and effect in fome cafes , there is no connexion difcoverable a priori in any cafe ? Because God ( and I pretend to reason with ...
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... falfe , no teftimony what- ever for a miraculous fact ought ever to be taken ? -To infer from the world's having been fometimes impofed upon by falfe miracles , that no miracles have ever been true , is as abfurd as if one should * P ...
... falfe , no teftimony what- ever for a miraculous fact ought ever to be taken ? -To infer from the world's having been fometimes impofed upon by falfe miracles , that no miracles have ever been true , is as abfurd as if one should * P ...
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... falfe pretenfions to fupernatural powers , a just fufpicion is created , that no fuch powers have ever been actually exerted ; efpecially as it is confidently afferted , that the miracles recorded in the New Teftament , and which we ...
... falfe pretenfions to fupernatural powers , a just fufpicion is created , that no fuch powers have ever been actually exerted ; efpecially as it is confidently afferted , that the miracles recorded in the New Teftament , and which we ...
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... falfe . It would be an endless and an un- neceffary task to enumerate all the mani- fold accounts of miracles reported amongst Pagans and amongst Papifts , and to ex- amine them one by one , critically , in order to disprove them . I ...
... falfe . It would be an endless and an un- neceffary task to enumerate all the mani- fold accounts of miracles reported amongst Pagans and amongst Papifts , and to ex- amine them one by one , critically , in order to disprove them . I ...
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Abbé Paris admit affert affigned againſt alfo alſo amongſt anſwer Apoſtles Archbishop of Sens attefted becauſe befides believe boaſted cafe Cardinal de Noailles caſe caufe cauſe Chriftianity church circumſtances cles confequently confider courſe credibility credulity cures dæmons detection diſcover diſeaſes eſtabliſhed evidence examination fact faid faint falfe fame fatisfy feems feen fhall fhew fhould firft firſt fome fraud Free Inquiry ftill fuch fufficient fupernatural fupplicants fuppofed fupport furniſhed Goſpel Goſpel miracles himſelf hiſtory impoffible impoſture impreffions inftances interpofition Irenæus leaſt Middleton mira miracles of Jefus miraculous powers moft Montgeron moſt muſt myſelf natural cauſes neceffary obferve occafion opinion Papifts perfons performed phyficians poffible prefent pretended pretenfions propoſed prove publiſhed purpoſe racles racter raiſed reaſon religion ſay ſeems ſhall ſome ſtill ſuch ſuppoſed Tacitus Teftament teftimony thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion tomb truth unleſs uſe whofe whoſe witneffes witneſſes wrought
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Page 259 - 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 260 - 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 8 - 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 9 - ... go beyond the evidence of our memory and senses. If you were to ask a man, why he believes any matter of fact, which is absent; for instance, that his friend is in the country, or in France; he would give you a reason; and this reason would be some other fact; as a letter received from him, or the knowledge of his former resolutions and promises.
Page 11 - 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 260 - And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him,, and healed them all.
Page 339 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of...
Page 24 - I fay, that a miracle can never be proved, fo as to be the foundation of a fyftem of religion. For I own, that otherwife, there may poffibly be miracles, or violations of the ufual courfe of nature, of fuch a kind as to admit of proof from human teftimony; though, perhaps, it will be impoflible to find any fuch in all the records of hiftory.
Page 115 - Jansenist, with whose sanctity the people were so long deluded. The curing of the sick, giving hearing to the deaf and sight to the blind were everywhere talked of as the usual effects of that holy sepulchre.
Page 259 - Synagogues, and preaching the gofpel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of ficknefs, and all manner of difeafe among the people.