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" So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity:... "
An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ... - Page 132
by David Hume - 1817
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The Posthumous Works ...

Isaac Watts - 1754 - 772 pages
...believes the truth of Christianity," says Mr. Hume at the close of his celebrated Essay upon Miracles, "is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...determination to believe what is most contrary to reason and experience." Your Lordship may see by this quotation from the works of a renowned sceptic,...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 6

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...religions, amounts to an entire annihilation. Nay, whoever by faith is moved to assent to a miracle, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe whatever is most con-r trary to custom and experience." Thus conclusive and dictatorial is Mr. Hume,...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 14, Issue 1

1815 - 436 pages
..."Our most holy religion is matter of faith, not of reason : and he who is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts the first principles of his understanding, and teaches him to believe what is most contrary to reason...
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Lectures on Ecclesiastical History

George Campbell - 1807 - 530 pages
...whoever is moved by faith to assent " to it ;" that is, whoever by his belief is induced to believe it, *' is conscious of a continued miracle in his...what is most contrary " to custom and experience." An author is never so sure of writing unanswerably, as when he writes altogether unintelligibly. It...
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A Dissertation on Miracles: Containing an Examination of the Principles ...

George Campbell - 1807 - 294 pages
...a continued miracle in his own person, K which subverts all the principles of his un" derstanding, and gives him a determination " to believe, what is most contrary to custom " and experience." An author is never so sure of writing unanswerably, as when he writes altogether unintelligibly. It...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his...believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. i SECTION XI. OF A PARTICULAR PROVIDENCE AND OF A FUTURE STATE. I was lately engaged in conversation...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...passes upon all thaf believe the Christian religion, viz, " That whosoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe, whatever is most contrary to custom and experience." It is thus that Hume concludes his Essay on Miracles,"...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 3

1815 - 698 pages
...believes the truth of Christianity,' says Mr. Hume at the close of his celebrated Essay upon Miracleg) ' is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the-principlts of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe whac is most contrary...
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Essays and treatises on several subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...however, necessary to make it be received, according to the measures of probability above established. of any revelation. If it did not exceed the capacity...is most contrary to custom and experience. SECTION xr. OF A PARTICULAR PROVIDENCE AND OF A FUTURE STATE. I WAS lately engaged in conversation with a friend...
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A Dissertation on Miracles: Containing an Examination of the Principles ...

George Campbell - 1823 - 590 pages
...assent to it ;' that is, whoever by his belief is induced to believe it, * is conscious of a con' tinued miracle in his own person, which subverts ' all the...gives ' him a determination to believe, what is most con' trary to custom and experience.' An author is never so sure of writing unanswerably, as when he...
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