 | John Leland - 1755 - 698 pages
...holy religion (faith he) is " founded on faith, not on rcafon: And 'tis a *f fure method of cxpofing it to put it to fuch a " trial, as it is by no means...endure." And he calls thofe, who undertake to defend rc* Le Moyne on Miracles, p. 4zz, (3c, ligion by reafon, pretendedChriftians-\. a mean and ungenerous... | |
 | David Hume - 1758 - 568 pages
...human reafon. Our moft holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reafon ; and 'tis a fure method of expofing it to put it to fuch a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine thofe miracles, related in fcripture ; and not to lofe ourfelves... | |
 | David Hume - 1760 - 314 pages
...human reafon. Our moft holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reafon ; and 'tis a fure method of expofing it to put it to fuch a trial as it is, by no means, -fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine thofe miracles, related 'in fcripture ; and not to lofe ourfelves... | |
 | William Adams - 1777 - 394 pages
...us, " that our moft holy religion is " founded on faith, not on reafon ; and " 'tis a fure method of expofing it, to put " it to fuch a trial as it is by no means '« fitted to endure." This he pretends to make evident by examining the miracles related in the Pentateuch : " Here," fays... | |
 | David Hume - 1779 - 548 pages
...founded on , not on reafon; and it js a fure method of expofing * Nov. Org. lib. ii. aph. 29. cxpofing it to put it to fuch a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine thofe miracles, related in fcripture; and not to lofe ourfelves... | |
 | 1762 - 762 pages
...author, in the conclufion of his ertay, " is founded on faith, not on reafon; and it is a fure method of expofing it, to put it to fuch a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure." If, by our man holy religion, we are to underftand the fundamental articles of the Cliriftian fyllem,... | |
 | John Leland, William Laurence Brown - 1798 - 496 pages
...TCS!. And the rcall-ns whiclF lbc/,v th: d:IT:re^cQ between ai&ion and a feai-'.y " it, to ptit'it to fuch a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure."...animadverfion: all that can be gathered from it is, that thefc gentlemen are very uneafy at the attempts which have been made to defend Chriftianity in ~a way... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 pages
...he, " is founded on faith, not on reason :f and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to such a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure." And he calls those, • Le Moyne on Miracles, p. 422, &c. f This author, who takes care to make the principles of... | |
 | 1846 - 810 pages
...religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure;' — and again, 'as if the testimony of man could ever be put in the balance with that of God himself, who conducted... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1862 - 708 pages
...is founded lw"15i on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." And again, " So that upon the whole we may conclude that the Christian religion was not only at first attended... | |
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Religion^ who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reafon. Our moft holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reafon ; and 'tis a fure method of expofing it to put it to fuch a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. 
