Sermons and Tracts Upon Religious SubjectsJ. Eddowes; and sold by B. White, and T. Cadell, in London; J. and J. Fletcher, and D. Prince, in Oxford; and J. Woodyer, in Cambridge, 1777 - Sermons - 354 pages |
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... never repose the leaft " confidence in human teftimony * . " The first of these motives I do not understand . Of the reft I shall obferve , that their force we collect , not fo much from our observa- B 4 tion part , no evidence at all ...
... never repose the leaft " confidence in human teftimony * . " The first of these motives I do not understand . Of the reft I shall obferve , that their force we collect , not fo much from our observa- B 4 tion part , no evidence at all ...
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... never been " observed in any age or country . There << « + muft , therefore , be an uniform experi- ence against every miraculous event , o- " therwise the event would not merit the appellation . And , as an uniform ex- perience amounts ...
... never been " observed in any age or country . There << « + muft , therefore , be an uniform experi- ence against every miraculous event , o- " therwise the event would not merit the appellation . And , as an uniform ex- perience amounts ...
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... never feen or been witness to any - miracle that he has always found the courfe of nature to be the fame and un- changed : but does this experience teach him , that the laws of nature are neceffary and immutable that there is no power ...
... never feen or been witness to any - miracle that he has always found the courfe of nature to be the fame and un- changed : but does this experience teach him , that the laws of nature are neceffary and immutable that there is no power ...
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... never seen fire kindled by a touch from ice ? This negative evi- dence , tho ' multiplied infinitely , would ftill be negative : and the fact laft mentioned might be true , and capable of very easy proof from teftimony , as I fhall ...
... never seen fire kindled by a touch from ice ? This negative evi- dence , tho ' multiplied infinitely , would ftill be negative : and the fact laft mentioned might be true , and capable of very easy proof from teftimony , as I fhall ...
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... never been obferved be- fore or fince . And just as pertinent is it to allege the experience of ages and countries against miracles which are faid to be wrought in other times and other countries . But , in truth , were the world to ...
... never been obferved be- fore or fince . And just as pertinent is it to allege the experience of ages and countries against miracles which are faid to be wrought in other times and other countries . But , in truth , were the world to ...
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Page 376 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Page 202 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did...
Page 350 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 56 - ... 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...
Page 338 - He himself made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his counsel ; If thou wilt, to keep the commandments, and to perform acceptable faithfulness.
Page 239 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it ; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 72 - ... more indirectly, to overthrow every other system. In destroying a rival system, it likewise destroys the credit of those miracles on which that system was established ; so that all the prodigies of different religions are to be regarded as contrary facts, and the evidences of these prodigies, whether weak or strong, as opposite to each other.
Page 51 - But suppose that all the historians who treat of England should agree that, on the first of January 1600, Queen Elizabeth died; that both before and after her death she was seen by her physicians and the whole court, as is usual with persons of her rank; that her successor was acknowledged and proclaimed by the parliament; and that, after being interred a month, she again appeared, resumed the throne, and governed England for three years.
Page 119 - 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. And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most...
Page 122 - I would not say God governs by a rule that we know, or may know, as well as he, and upon our knowledge of which he appeals to men for the justice of his proceedings towards them; which a famous divine has impiously advanced, in a pretended demonstration of his being and attributes. God forbid!