 Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason, to make way for revelation,...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Seite 8von Dugald Stewart - 1814Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 Seiten
...he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much what the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out...his eyes, the better to receive the remote light of some invisible star by a telescope." We may observe here, by the way, that our objection to the use... | |
 | 1858 - 1094 Seiten
...edition, Part I. p. 18, and passim). * Locke, Essay on Human Understanding, (Book IY. c. XIX. sec. 4). eyes, the better to receive the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope." O most merciful Father, who by the glorious ministration of the Spirit hast given us a clear revelation... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 Seiten
...words reason and reasoning sufficiently accounts for this inaccuracy in common and popular language ; than of speculative truth and falsehood; nor can there...remote light of an invisible star by a telescope/' although it cannot fail to appear obvious, on the slightest reflection, that, in strict propriety,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 Seiten
...away Reason to make way for Revelation puts out the light of both, and does much the same as if we would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the light of an invisible star by a telescope."1 This passage from Locke brought to my recollection the... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1860 - 504 Seiten
...he, that takes awav reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much-what the same as if he would persuade a man to put out...remote light of an invisible star by a telescope." According to this assumption, a man's religious belief is a result which issues at the end of an intellectual... | |
 | Alexander Alison - 1860 - 476 Seiten
...who would take away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both ; as if we should persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to...remote light of an invisible star by a telescope/ And Tillotson, in his great sermons preached before the King and Queen, affirms that ' the principles... | |
 | 1860 - 894 Seiten
...who would take away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, as if we should persuade a man to put out his eyes the better to receive...the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope " (Hum. Underst. iv. 19-4) ; and Tillotson, in his great sermon preached before the king and queen... | |
 | 1860 - 306 Seiten
...who would take away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, as if we should persuade a man to put out his eyes the better to receive...remote light of an invisible star by a telescope.' (Hum. Under. IV. 19, 4i.) And Tillotson, in his great sermons preached before the King and Queen upon... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1861 - 552 Seiten
...that takes awny reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much-what the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out...remote light of an invisible star by a telescope."— Essay, book iv. chap. six. § 4. and the debates which divide it. His heart goes with his mind into... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1861 - 556 Seiten
...that takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much-vvhat the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out...remote light of an invisible star by a telescope."— Essay, book iv. chap. xix. § 4. and the debates which divide it. His heart goes with his mind into... | |
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