 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.  Half-hours with Freethinkersedited by - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1829 - 236 pages
...last mentioned author, in the close of his far-famed Essay on Miracles, uses the following language; " Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on. reason; and 'tis a sure method of exposing it 'to put it to a test, which it is by no means fitted to endure."... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1830 - 212 pages
...mentioned author, in the close of his far famed Essay on Miracles, uses the following language ; " Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on...reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to a test, which it is by no means fitted to endure."— And again ; " Mere reason is insufficient... | |
 | David Bristow Baker - Skepticism - 1831 - 244 pages
...aversion to Christianity, to conclude it, with such a passage as the following?—"This way of reasoning may serve to confound those dangerous friends, or...holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason," &c. &c.—Hume's Essay on Miracles. Why this concealment ? why this unworthy disguise?—and yet, it... | |
 | Thomas Harvey Skinner - Preaching - 1832 - 38 pages
...ways ; but if they could hold dispassionate argument with them, they could gain their understand• " Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on...reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." Hume's Essay on Miracles. ing, and so... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1832 - 270 pages
...mentioned author, in the close of his far famed Essay on Miracles, uses the following language ; " Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason, and 'tis a sure method of exposing it, to put it to a test, which it is, by na means fitted to endure."... | |
 | George Hill - Apologetics - 1833 - 604 pages
...assent ; and Mr. Hume, in the spirit of this pamphlet, concludes his Essay on Miracles, with calling those, dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the...principles of human reason. " Our most holy religion," he says, with a disingenuity very unbecoming his respectable talents, " is founded on faith, not on... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pages
...monsters, magic, 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 is founded... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Apologetics - 1836 - 294 pages
...monsters, magic, and alcnymy, &c.) may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies of the Christian religion who have undertaken to defend...reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to sndure.-^Humfs Essays $ 10, v. ii. p. 136-7,... | |
 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...performance, and is the better pleased with the way of reasoning he has made use of, as he thinks, " it may serve to confound those dangerous friends,...principles of human reason. Our most holy religion," saith he, " is founded on faith, not on reason :f and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1839 - 296 pages
...monsters, magic, anj alchymy, &c.) may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies of the Christian religion who have undertaken to defend...holy religion is founded on faith,, not on reason; aiid it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to such a trial as it is by no means Jilted to endure.... | |
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