 | Nicholas Wolterstorff - Philosophy - 1996 - 276 pages
...thus: "from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitution, our Reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and...truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing being; which, whether any one will please to call God, it matters not. The thing is evident,... | |
 | Colin E. Gunton - Religion - 1997 - 332 pages
...as the true basis of doctrine. Collins was a disciple of John Locke, who, like Spinoza, argued that 'reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain...truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being', whose attributes are finally but an enlarged idea of our own perfections.30 But... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1998 - 992 pages
...that 'from the Consideration of our selves, and what we infallibly find in our own Constitutions, our Reason leads us to the Knowledge of this certain and...Truth, That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being' That is, God exists.132 Though Locke's argument is more complex than Hobbes's,... | |
 | R. Crocker - History - 2001 - 264 pages
...'Thus from the Consideration of our selves, and what we infallibly find in our own Constitutions, our Reason leads us to the Knowledge of this certain and...Truth, That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being; which whether any one will please to call God it matters not."31 We know more certainly... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - Religion - 2004 - 292 pages
...Indeed, Locke's Essay can be said to lay much of the intellectual foundations of Deism. Locke argued that 'reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain...truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful and most knowing Being'. The attributes of this being are those which human reason recognizes as appropriate... | |
 | Paul Helm - Philosophy - 2002 - 200 pages
...himself. From the consideration of ourselves and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and...truth : that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing being, which whether anyone will please to call God, it matters not.1 That is, Locke claims... | |
 | Michael J. Buckley - Religion - 2004 - 204 pages
..."thus, from the Consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own Constitutions, our Reason leads us to the Knowledge of this certain and...Truth, That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being-, which whether any one will please to call God, it matters not."21 This is all... | |
 | Norman Sykes - Religion - 2004 - 256 pages
...consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful and most knowing Being'; so that it was plain that 'we have a more certain knowledge of the existence of... | |
 | Wessel Stoker - Philosophy - 2006 - 286 pages
...also, as the first cause of the human being, 'most knowing.' He thus believes that he has shown, as a certain and evident truth 'that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being.'14 I have critiqued this argument elsewhere.15 I am concerned here only with showing... | |
 | Philip Vogt - Philosophy - 2008 - 222 pages
...Thus from the Consideration of our selves, and what we infallibly find in our own Constitutions, our Reason leads us to the Knowledge of this certain and...Truth, That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knoiving Being; which whether any one will please to call God, it matters not. The thing is evident,... | |
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Thus from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing being ; which whether any... 
