 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.  The Positive Evidences of Christianity - Seite 32von Beverly Waugh Bond - 1880 - 282 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Archibald Alexander - 1825 - 256 Seiten
...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...fact is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 684 Seiten
...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 complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 682 Seiten
...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 complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 626 Seiten
...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...-is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable that all men must die ; that lead cannot, of itself,... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1826 - 524 Seiten
...therefore concludes that as a firm and unalterable experience is against the occurrence of miracles, " the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined," and he deduces, as a plain and necessaryconsequence, this general and important... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1827 - 588 Seiten
...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 complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined : and if so, it i an undeniable consequence... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1829 - 236 Seiten
...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...fact is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 1158 Seiten
...testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle ;' and the reasoning employed for this purpose is, that ' a miracle being a violation of the laws of nature,...nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experiencecan be : whereas pur experience of human veracity, which (according to him) 32* is the sole... | |
 | John Douglas - 1832 - 270 Seiten
...that this effect was produced ; but miracles being events contrary to firm and unalterable experience, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. I have endeavoured, with all the impartiality I am master of, to give you a fair... | |
 | John Douglas (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1832 - 266 Seiten
...violation of the laws " of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experi" ence has established these laws, the proof against " a miracle, from the very nature...is as " entire as any argument from experience can pos" sibly be imagined6." Now it is obvious, from this quotation, that our author's argument against... | |
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