 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...feeming Meaning of which, is contrary to natural Religion ; we may moft certainly conclude, fuch feeming Meaning not to be the real one. But it is not any Degree of a Prefumption againfl an Interpretation of Scripture, that fuch Interpretation contains a Doctrine, which... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - Apologetics - 1818 - 634 pages
...the law of God, and he is too wise and too faithful to contradict himself." So Butler .- " If in any revelation there be found any passages, the seeming...conclude such seeming meaning not to be the real one." Analogy, part ii. ch. 1. The same subject is treated by Clarke, in his Evidences of Nat. and Rev. Retig.... | |
 | Arminianism - 1878 - 1002 pages
...wrong. The canon of Bishop Bntler* would lead us to prefer the second alternative. Popular theow ' If in revelation there be found any passages the seeming meaning of which i« contrary to natural religion, we may most certainly conclude such seeming meaning not to be the... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1834 - 388 pages
...revelation really is ; instead of determining beforehand, -from reason, what the scheme of it must be 1. Indeed if in revelation there be found any passages,...contains a doctrine which the light of nature cannot discover2, or a precept which the law of nature does not oblige to. 1 See chap. iii. 2 P. 165, 1«6.... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...revelation really is, instead of determining beforehand, from reason, what the scheme of it must be*. Indeed, if in revelation there be found any passages,...contains a doctrine, which the light of nature cannot discovert, or a precept, which the law of nature does not oblige to. " CHAPTER II. Of the supposed... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...revelation really is; instead of determining beforehand, from reason, what the scheme of it must be.t Indeed if in Revelation there be found any passages,...presumption against an interpretation of Scripture, that * TT-r *;, + f such interpretation contains a doctrine, which the light of nature cannot discover;*... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1839 - 362 pages
...revelation really is instead of determining beforehand, from reason, what the scheme of it must be.* Indeed, if in revelation there be found any passages,...not to be the real one. But it is not any degree of presumption against an interpretation of Scriptures, that such interpretation contains a doctrine,... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...revelation really is, instead of determining from reason beforehand, what the scheme of it must be. Indeed, if in revelation there be found any passages,...not to be the real one; but it is not any degree of presumption against an interpretation of Scripture, that such interpretation contains a doctrine which... | |
 | 206 pages
...advice of Butler who in his anology of Religion says, — " If in revelation there be found any passage the seeming meaning of which is contrary to natural...conclude such seeming meaning not to be the real one." Solomon says you may tell a man by his countenance. Aristotle, Cicero, and Leibintz and many other... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1843 - 358 pages
...reason, what the scheme of it must be.* Indeed, if in revelation there be found any passages, the germing meaning of which is contrary to natural religion,...not to be the real one. But it is not any degree of presumption against an interpretation of Scriptures, that such interpretation contains a doctrine,... | |
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Indeed, if in revelation there be found any passages, the seeming meaning of which is contrary to natural religion, we may most certainly conclude such seeming meaning not to be the real one. 
