 | 1872 - 778 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 own person." Now, however he intended we should read that, it is in fact literally true; there is a line of Divine... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1873 - 744 pages
...convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the...believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." The mere jest in this passage is too old and familiar — it has been repeated in too many forms during... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 492 pages
...insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And 1 Dodwell, p. no. whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continued miracle in his own...determination to believe what is most contrary to reason and experience.' Dodwell's irony, however, seems to have puzzled some worthy Christians of mystical... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - 1879 - 442 pages
...convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is BHUDDISTIC, OR BOODISTIC, MA YA. 129 moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his...subverts all the principles of his understanding." The theosophic foundation of the Bhuddistic Maya, or Universal Illusion, has been finely alluded to... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1879 - 304 pages
...applies fully to his own case. His unbelief in the midst of Gospel light is a miracle and a marvel which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a sullen determination to believe what is at once most dishonourable and blasphemous towards God, and... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1880 - 424 pages
...say, in Hume's own words, that it ' subverts all the principles of the understanding, and gives a man a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience °.' But if you deny this, you have said nothing less than that in the constitution of the universe... | |
 | 1881 - 814 pages
...world which, in the words of Hume, " subverts all the principles of the understanding, and gives a man a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." No doubt it is so, but it is the side which all prophets, all the best men, the great benefactors of... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1882 - 744 pages
...convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the...believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." The mere jest in this passage is too old and familiar — it has been repeated in too many forms during... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pages
...convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the...believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." — (IV. pp. 153, 154.) It is obvious that, here and elsewhere, Hume, adopting a popular confusion... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1886 - 506 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 own...believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." Here, to be sure, though his language does not differ very widely from that of some of the extravagant... | |
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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:... 
