 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates;...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1862 - 204 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." Exactly ; no statement could be more reasonable. Let us proceed, then,... | |
 | 1864 - 646 ページ
...remainder." Also with regard to testimony about raising the dead, " If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." We need have no fears of the application of these principles to Christian... | |
 | 1864 - 644 ページ
...remainder." Also with regard to testimony about raising the dead, " If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." We need have no fears of the application of these principles to Christian... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1865 - 252 ページ
...I pronounce the decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand ray belief or opinion.' * But this, as every one must observe, is precisely what the Christian... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1866 - 380 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." We need not fear this test, and can turn it in our case against Hume... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1866 - 436 ページ
...pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would bo more miraculous than the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." We need not fear this test, and can turn it in our case against Hume... | |
 | Benjamin Field - 1868 - 298 ページ
...one bears testimony to a miracle, " if the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous Chan the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." No statement could be more reasonable ; and the Christian maintains that... | |
 | Benjamin Field - 1870 - 354 ページ
...movements * Hume says, that when any one bears testimony to a miracle, " if the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." No statement could be more reasonable ; and the Christian maintains that... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - 534 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates,...till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion."1 The ground upon which Mr. Mill admits that a miracle may not be contradictory to complete... | |
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... person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject... 
