 | Hugo Grotius - 1805 - 398 pages
...would have us believe, so as that Faith should be accepted from us as Obedience, should not be so very plain, as those Things we perceive by our Senses,...Touchstone to try Men's honest Dispositions by. For since diose Arguments, xvhich we have brought, have gained the Assent of so many good and wise Men, it is... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...obedience, should not so evidently appear as those things we perceive by our senses, and by demonstration; so that the Gospel is, as it were, a touchstone to try men's honest intentions by. 4 As to miracles. Why should it be impossible for him who created to re-produce ? Why,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1875 - 408 pages
...would have us believe, so as that faith should be accepted from us as obedience, should not be so very plain, as those things we perceive by our senses,...touchstone, to try men's honest dispositions by." — DR. CROOKS.] entirely falls in with this their natural sense of things so they are capable, not... | |
 | James Franklin - History - 2002 - 520 pages
...indeed God's will that revelation should not be as clearly true as sense knowledge and demonstration, "so that the Gospel is, as it were, a touchstone to try men's honest dispositions by."62 Grotius's chapter on the design argument for God's governance takes up the ideas of Lessius... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Religion - 2005 - 401 pages
...senses, and by demonstration; but only so far as is sufficient to procure the belief, and persunde a man of the thing, who is not obstinately bent against...were, a touchstone, to try men's honest dispositions by."—DR. CROOKS.] entirely falls in with this their natural sense of things so they are capable,... | |
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And it is the will of God, that those things which he would have us believe, so as that faith should be accepted from us as obedience, should not be so very plain, as those things we perceive by our senses, and by demonstration ; but only so far as is... 