 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1817 - 780 pages
...yet it is wholly impossible that such an event should be made credible to me. " A miracle (he says) is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm...unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire a: any argument from experience... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1821 - 786 pages
...tin' hurt of '»Ivre. Thus Л1 r. Hume, in his lissays, ;ays, " Л miracle is a violation of the 'a'« 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 us entire as any argument from experience... | |
 | 1821 - 788 pages
...the idea that miracles are violations of the lavs of iiiifitrr. Thus Mr. Hume, in his Essays, says, " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a linn and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 876 pages
...miraculous, here arises a contest of two opposite " experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a mi" racle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a •"...unalterable experience has established these -" laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very на" ture of the fact, is as complete as any argument "... | |
 | George Campbell - Church of Scotland - 1823 - 590 pages
...must prevail, but still with a * diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its ' antagonist. A miracle is a 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 of the... | |
 | George Campbell - Miracles - 1824 - 396 pages
...must prevail, but * still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its ' antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; '...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... | |
 | John Douglas - Bible - 1824 - 268 pages
...know, has been denied by a late very ingenious, but very sceptical author. " A miracle," says he, " is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm...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... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1824 - 300 pages
...regard to miracles, brings out as a result, that no human evidence can in any case render them credible. For a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature : and a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws. Therefore it will always be more probable,... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1825 - 256 pages
...an entire proof; in that case there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail. — A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; 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... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature : 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... | |
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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. 
