 | John Leland - 1755 - 698 pages
...thinks " it may ferve to confound " thofe dangerous friends, or difguifcd enemies " to theChriftian religion, who have undertaken " to defend it by the principles of human rea" fon. Our mod holy religion (faith he) is " founded on faith, not on rcafon: And 'tis a *f fure... | |
 | William Adams - 1777 - 394 pages
...apply his argument where he intended, the author, proceeds, with a fmiling grimace, to tell us, " that our moft holy religion is " founded on faith, not...trial as it is by no means '« fitted to endure." This he pretends to make evident by examining the miracles related in the Pentateuch : " Here," fays... | |
 | David Hume - 1779 - 548 pages
...think it may ferve to confound thofe dangerous friends or difguifed CJ ' O enemies to the Cbriftian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the...human reafon. Our moft holy religion is founded on , not on reafon; and it js a fure method of expofing * Nov. Org. lib. ii. aph. 29. cxpofing it to put... | |
 | 1762 - 762 pages
...religion," fays the author, in the conclufion of his ertay, " is founded on faith, not on reafon; and it is a fure method of expofing it, to put it to fuch a trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure." If, by our man holy religion, we are to underftand the fundamental articles of the Cliriftian fyllem,... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 pages
...as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends, or disguised enemies, to the Christian religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing... | |
 | 1830 - 684 pages
...there employed " may serve lo confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing... | |
 | 1830 - 690 pages
...there employed " may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing... | |
 | David Bristow Baker - 1831 - 244 pages
...way of reasoning may serve to confound those dangerous friends, or disguised enemies to the Christian religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason," &c. &c.—Hume's Essay on Miracles.... | |
 | George Hill - 1833 - 604 pages
...his Essay on Miracles, with calling those, dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. " Our most holy religion," he says, with a disingenuity very unbecoming his respectable talents,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pages
...and alchymy, &c.) may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies of the Christian religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason (of whom, by the by, Lord Bacon was one, and Sir Isaac Newton another). Our most holy religion... | |
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I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most... 
