 | Edward Hitchcock - Bible and geology - 1859 - 628 pages
...contrary to experience. " It is," says Mr. Hume, " a maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish." Hence he asserts, that " the evidence of testimony, when applied to a miracle,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1860 - 400 pages
...contrary to experience. " It is," says Mr. Hume, " a maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." Hence he asserts, that " the evidence of testimony, when applied to a miracle, carries falsehood on... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1861 - 786 pages
...argument against the credibility of any account of miracles is expressed as follows : " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." A miracle is a deviation from the ordinary course of nature, and it is therefore evident that one fact... | |
 | James Buchanan - Essays - 1861 - 278 pages
...Hume. The latter lays down his position as ' a 'general maxim' in these terms: — 'That no tes' timony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless ' the...miraculous than the fact which it ' endeavours to establish ;' and even this maxim is still further limited when he adds, ' that no human ' testimony can have... | |
 | George Hill - 1861 - 162 pages
...case the words of Mr Hume, although he certainly did not mean them to be so applied : " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." The falsehood of the testimony of the apostles would be more miraculous — *. e., it is more improbable... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1861 - 286 pages
...Hume. The latter lays down his position as ' a 'general maxim' in these terms: — 'That no tes' timony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless ' the...miraculous than the fact which it ' endeavours to establish ;' and even this maxim is still further limited when he adds, ' that no human ' testimony can have... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1862 - 622 pages
...of Hume's argument to be that no testimony is sufficient to establish an improbability, unless that testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more improbable than the occurrence of the fact which it endeavours to establish, it altogether fails to... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - Apologetics - 1865 - 252 pages
...experience can possibly be imagined.' * And if so, it is an undeniable consequence that ' no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it would endeavour to establish ; and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and... | |
 | Theology - 1867 - 902 pages
...miracles with M. Re'nan ; we shall simply set over against him the dictum of Hume, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish ; and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of argument, and the superior only gives us that... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1871 - 608 pages
...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. . . . The plain consequence is that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish j and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the... | |
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That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. 
