Criterion; Or, Rules by which the True Miracles Recorded in the New Testament are Distinquished from the Spurious Miracles of Pagans and PapistsSwinborne & Walter, 1824 - 260 páginas Three points are discussed. First, a refutation of David Hume's "Philosophical essarys concerning Human Understanding and concerning the credibility of miracles, secondly shows the pretended miracles of the pagans of ancient times and of the papists in more modern days, and lastly, the miracles of Jesus Christ shown not to be liable to the objections urged against those of the Abbé Paris. |
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... asserting that he had heard of Ignatius's miracles in 1572 , with his elabo- rate inquiry at that very time , into the reasons why God had not vested his Saint with such a power . From all these circumstances , therefore , I think myself ...
... asserting that he had heard of Ignatius's miracles in 1572 , with his elabo- rate inquiry at that very time , into the reasons why God had not vested his Saint with such a power . From all these circumstances , therefore , I think myself ...
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... asserting that the Jesuits , a learned body , supported by the civil magis- trates , and determined enemies to those opinions in whose favour the miracles were said to have been wrought , were never able distinctly to refute or detect ...
... asserting that the Jesuits , a learned body , supported by the civil magis- trates , and determined enemies to those opinions in whose favour the miracles were said to have been wrought , were never able distinctly to refute or detect ...
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... asserting at the same time , that these his words or actions were the cause of the cures . But why need I be at so much pains to shew that no natural cause brought about the cures attributed to Jesus , when we know that N. 3 149 to ...
... asserting at the same time , that these his words or actions were the cause of the cures . But why need I be at so much pains to shew that no natural cause brought about the cures attributed to Jesus , when we know that N. 3 149 to ...
Página 163
... asserted wherever Christianity was preached , for it is the very corner - stone of the re- ligion . If Christ be not risen from the dead , both the preaching of the Apostle , and the faith of the convert , would have been vain . Though ...
... asserted wherever Christianity was preached , for it is the very corner - stone of the re- ligion . If Christ be not risen from the dead , both the preaching of the Apostle , and the faith of the convert , would have been vain . Though ...
Página 166
... asserting Jesus's miraculous power , in general , but are at pains to descend to particular facts and in- stances of this power , which they relate with all their circumstances a method this which put it in every body's power to satisfy ...
... asserting Jesus's miraculous power , in general , but are at pains to descend to particular facts and in- stances of this power , which they relate with all their circumstances a method this which put it in every body's power to satisfy ...
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Página 143 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Página 11 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Página 143 - And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness, and every disease, among the people.
Página 60 - One of the best attested miracles in all profane history, is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria, by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot...
Página 21 - Thus, suppose, all authors, in all languages agree that from the first of January 1600 there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: Suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people: That all travellers, who return from foreign countries, bring us accounts of the same tradition, without the least variation or contradiction. It is evident that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain,...
Página 14 - Adam, though his rational faculties be supposed, at the very first, entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water that it would suffocate him, or from the light and warmth of fire that it would consume him.
Página 143 - Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Página 143 - And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; 36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Página 21 - For I own, that otherwise, there may possibly be miracles, or violations of the usual course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony; though, perhaps, it will be impossible to find any such in all the records of history.
Página 144 - And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. 58. And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.