 | David Hume - Economics - 1760 - 314 pages
...the greater miracle. If the falfhood of his • teftimony would be more miraculous, than the eyent which he relates ; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. and eflence. The railing of a houfe or fhip into the air is a vifiblc miracle. The raifrngof a feather,... | |
 | Richard Price - Apologetics - 1772 - 482 pages
...pronounce '* my deci/ion, and always reject the greater *' miracle. If the falfehood of his teftimcny u would be more miraculous than the event " which he...can he pretend to command my belief or ** ' opinion *. " — For fuch reafons as thefe, Mt, * Ib. P. 182.-^— P. 206. I defire any one to lay bis hand... | |
 | Richard Price - Apologetics - 1777 - 554 pages
...pronounce •" my decifion, and always reje ft the greater " miracle. If the falfehood of his teflimony '" would be more miraculous than the event " which he relates, then, and not till then, " can be pretend to command my belief or " opinion *." — For fuch reafons as thefe, Mr. * lb. P. 182. P.... | |
 | Richard Price - Theology, Unitarian - 1777 - 500 pages
...the greater " miracle. If the falfehood of his tejiimony " would be more miraculous than the event l< which he relates, then, and not till then, '' can he pretend to command my belief of '' opinion *."— -For fuch reafons as thefe> Mr. * lb. P. 182. P. 206. I dejire any one to lay... | |
 | William Adams - Sermons - 1777 - 394 pages
...deducting the fc inferior. If the falfehood of any per•" fon's teftimony would be more miracu" lous than the event which he relates, " then, and not 'till then, can he pretend f* to command my belief or opinion *." By By miraculous it is plain that the author here means, in... | |
 | George Campbell - Church history - 1807 - 530 pages
...relates, should really have hap" pened. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and " according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce "...falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous thaw " the event which he relates ; then, and not till then, can he " pretend to command my belief... | |
 | George Campbell - Miracles - 1807 - 294 pages
...miracle there is in ft. " I " weigh," says he, " the one miracle against " the other, and according to the superiority " which I discover, I pronounce...decision, " and always reject the greater miracle."* Now, of this method, which will no doubt be thought by many to be very ingenious, and which appears... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which I discover, I pronounce...he pretend to command my belief or opinion-. PART ji. In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony upon which a miracle is founded,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority which I discover I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miiacle." In this passage every reader may remark, what did not escape the perspicacious eye of Dr.... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other, and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my...can he pretend to" command my belief or opinion." There is some inaccuracy of language in talking of greater and less miracles when Omnipotence is supposed... | |
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... When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I... 
