The Criterion; Or Rules by which the True Miracles Recorded in the New Testament are Distinguished from the Spurious Miracles of Pagans and PapistsT. Cadell and W. Davies ... : W. Flint, printer, 1807 - 416 páginas |
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... detected , when an attempt is made to pass it for gold , than are the false pretenfions of Paganism and Popery , when an attempt is made to put them on the fame footing of credibility with the mi- racles of Jefus and his apoftles . I ...
... detected , when an attempt is made to pass it for gold , than are the false pretenfions of Paganism and Popery , when an attempt is made to put them on the fame footing of credibility with the mi- racles of Jefus and his apoftles . I ...
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... detecting the forgery . However , I fhall add fome further reflex- ions , from which it will appear , that inter- nal marks of falsehood are as glaring , from Philoftratus's own narration , as the defects 1 I of its external evidence ...
... detecting the forgery . However , I fhall add fome further reflex- ions , from which it will appear , that inter- nal marks of falsehood are as glaring , from Philoftratus's own narration , as the defects 1 I of its external evidence ...
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... detection of them was impoffible to be fet about . And why a power of miracles fhould , at that time , be afcribed to this Saint , is obvious . The Jefuits , now that their founder had been dead almost sixty years , began to think of ...
... detection of them was impoffible to be fet about . And why a power of miracles fhould , at that time , be afcribed to this Saint , is obvious . The Jefuits , now that their founder had been dead almost sixty years , began to think of ...
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... detected , but from their having paffed current with- out detection . Setting these afide , then , as unworthy of our attention , the accounts of miracles proper to be examined under this head , are fuch as were published with all the ...
... detected , but from their having paffed current with- out detection . Setting these afide , then , as unworthy of our attention , the accounts of miracles proper to be examined under this head , are fuch as were published with all the ...
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... truth of miraculous facts . For , if the circum- stances , under which they have been pub- lifhed , give us an affurance that they escaped a detection not from frength of 1 evidence , but from want of examination , in this 87.
... truth of miraculous facts . For , if the circum- stances , under which they have been pub- lifhed , give us an affurance that they escaped a detection not from frength of 1 evidence , but from want of examination , in this 87.
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Criterion; Or, Rules by which the True Miracles Recorded in the New ... John Douglas Vista completa - 1824 |
Criterion; Or, Rules by which the True Miracles Recorded in the New ... John Douglas Vista completa - 1824 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abbé Paris admit affert affigned againſt alfo alſo amongſt anſwer Apoſtles Archbishop of Sens attefted becauſe befides believe boaſted cafe Cardinal de Noailles caſe caufe cauſe Chriftianity church circumſtances cles confequently confider courſe credibility credulity cures dæmons detection diſcover diſeaſes eſtabliſhed evidence examination fact faid faint falfe fame fatisfy feems feen fhall fhew fhould firft firſt fome fraud Free Inquiry ftill fuch fufficient fupernatural fupplicants fuppofed fupport furniſhed Goſpel Goſpel miracles himſelf hiſtory impoffible impoſture impreffions inftances interpofition Irenæus leaſt Middleton mira miracles of Jefus miraculous powers moft Montgeron moſt muſt myſelf natural cauſes neceffary obferve occafion opinion Papifts perfons performed phyficians poffible prefent pretended pretenfions propoſed prove publiſhed purpoſe racles racter raiſed reaſon religion ſay ſeems ſhall ſome ſtill ſuch ſuppoſed Tacitus Teftament teftimony thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion tomb truth unleſs uſe whofe whoſe witneffes witneſſes wrought
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Página 259 - 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 260 - 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 8 - 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 9 - ... go beyond the evidence of our memory and senses. If you were to ask a man, why he believes any matter of fact, which is absent; for instance, that his friend is in the country, or in France; he would give you a reason; and this reason would be some other fact; as a letter received from him, or the knowledge of his former resolutions and promises.
Página 11 - 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 260 - And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him,, and healed them all.
Página 339 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of...
Página 24 - I fay, that a miracle can never be proved, fo as to be the foundation of a fyftem of religion. For I own, that otherwife, there may poffibly be miracles, or violations of the ufual courfe of nature, of fuch a kind as to admit of proof from human teftimony; though, perhaps, it will be impoflible to find any fuch in all the records of hiftory.
Página 115 - Jansenist, with whose sanctity the people were so long deluded. The curing of the sick, giving hearing to the deaf and sight to the blind were everywhere talked of as the usual effects of that holy sepulchre.
Página 259 - Synagogues, and preaching the gofpel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of ficknefs, and all manner of difeafe among the people.