Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844 |
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... judge of that testimony on its own proper merits . - Thus stands the argument , if , with Hume , we place our belief in the uniformity of nature on the ground of experience . But is this really the ground of that belief ? I think not ...
... judge of that testimony on its own proper merits . - Thus stands the argument , if , with Hume , we place our belief in the uniformity of nature on the ground of experience . But is this really the ground of that belief ? I think not ...
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... judge beforehand of their prob- ability or improbability . In the first case , we should allow nothing for what we might suppose previous prob- ability or improbability , nothing for the nature of the facts as miraculous or common . We ...
... judge beforehand of their prob- ability or improbability . In the first case , we should allow nothing for what we might suppose previous prob- ability or improbability , nothing for the nature of the facts as miraculous or common . We ...
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... judge of the probability of any event , we must know something of its causes , or of the intentions of the agent who may produce it . If we know nothing of these , we have no right to say , of any event , that it is probable or im ...
... judge of the probability of any event , we must know something of its causes , or of the intentions of the agent who may produce it . If we know nothing of these , we have no right to say , of any event , that it is probable or im ...
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... judge what would , or would not , be probable under his government . Far better might the little child , yet learning its alphabet , judge of the prob- abilities respecting the purposes and actions of the Government of these United ...
... judge what would , or would not , be probable under his government . Far better might the little child , yet learning its alphabet , judge of the prob- abilities respecting the purposes and actions of the Government of these United ...
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... judge of the improbability , no less than of the probability , of events ; and while these persons shrink back with a pious horror from the pre- sumption of judging what God might or might not do , they covertly assume a knowledge of ...
... judge of the improbability , no less than of the probability , of events ; and while these persons shrink back with a pious horror from the pre- sumption of judging what God might or might not do , they covertly assume a knowledge of ...
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Page 309 - And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Page 309 - Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne...
Page 307 - But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him; that the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report ? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed...
Page 295 - And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
Page 309 - Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also His coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be...
Page 311 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : and the government shall be upon his shoulder : and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Page 301 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 283 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Page 107 - God shall judge the righteous and the wicked : for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Page 147 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...