An Account of Reason and Faith: In Relation to the Mysteries of Christianity. By John Norris, ...Edmund Parker, 1740 - 236 pages |
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... Since the Term ( Object ) seems more properly to defign the Matter of Faith , or the thing Be . liev'd , and is hardly applicable to the Motive or Reason of Believing . However fince we both mean one and the fame thing , there need be ...
... Since the Term ( Object ) seems more properly to defign the Matter of Faith , or the thing Be . liev'd , and is hardly applicable to the Motive or Reason of Believing . However fince we both mean one and the fame thing , there need be ...
Page 143
... Since then our Understandings are Finite , ' tis plain that our Perception of Infinite must also be Finite . ' Tis true indeed that Ob- jective Reality which we contemplate when we think upon Infinite has no Limits , and fo we may be ...
... Since then our Understandings are Finite , ' tis plain that our Perception of Infinite must also be Finite . ' Tis true indeed that Ob- jective Reality which we contemplate when we think upon Infinite has no Limits , and fo we may be ...
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... Since if it were not , the Incomprehenfibility of a thing ( as is fhewn in the Preceding Chapter ) would then not argue it not to be True . If therefore it does , ' tis plain that Human Reafon is the Measure of Truth . Which Principle ...
... Since if it were not , the Incomprehenfibility of a thing ( as is fhewn in the Preceding Chapter ) would then not argue it not to be True . If therefore it does , ' tis plain that Human Reafon is the Measure of Truth . Which Principle ...
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... Since there are fo many inconceiva . ble things , or if you pleafe , Mysteries , in the Works of Nature and of Providence , why not in Religion ? Nay where fhould one expect to find Mysteries if not there , where all the things that are ...
... Since there are fo many inconceiva . ble things , or if you pleafe , Mysteries , in the Works of Nature and of Providence , why not in Religion ? Nay where fhould one expect to find Mysteries if not there , where all the things that are ...
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... Since then you would express fuch implicit regard to the Authority of a fallible , though Learned , Man , fhall not the Divine weigh infinitely heavier with you , and fince you would not ftick to affent to things above your Concepti- on ...
... Since then you would express fuch implicit regard to the Authority of a fallible , though Learned , Man , fhall not the Divine weigh infinitely heavier with you , and fince you would not ftick to affent to things above your Concepti- on ...
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Page 200 - But when a thing is proposed to me as from God, all that my Reason has to do in this case is seriously, soberly, diligently, impartially, and, I add, humbly to examine whether it comes with the true Credentials of His authority, and has Him for its real author or no. This is all that Reason has to do in this matter, and when she has done this, she is to rise from the seat of judgment, and...
Page 218 - God himftlf, and many .of them concerning himfclf and his own infinite perfections ? And what deference do we pay to God more than man, if either we fuppofe that he cannot reveal truths to us which we cannot comprehend...
Page 222 - ... be driven to fay that you comprehend the nature of God, which I hope you have too much religion as well as reafon to affirm. 10. And indeed if we meet with fo many infuperable difficulties in the fearch of nature, much more may we in the comtemplation of its author; if the works of God do fo puzzle and baffle our understandings, much more may they confefs their deficiency when God himfelf is their...
Page 66 - ... 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he fhould after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 215 - Senfe and Congruity of Reafon in pretending to be a God in Heaven than to be a God upon Earth) I fay befides this, I would put it to your more fober thought to confider whether it be not every whit as great an Extremity in the way of rational...
Page 2 - God fpared not the natural branches, take heed left he alfo fpare not thee. Behold therefore the goodnefs and feverity of God, on them which fell, feverity ; but towards thee, goodnefs, if thou continue in his goodnefs ; otherwife, thou alfo fhalt be cut off. And they alfo, if they abide not ftill in unbelief, fhall be graffed in ; for God is able to graft...
Page 2 - Gentile, ** the branches were broken off," the children of Ifrael were rejected from being the people of God, " that I might be graffed in. " Well; becaufe of unbelief they were broken " off, and thou ftandeft by faith. BE NOT ** HIGH-MINDED, BUT FEAR. For if God " fpared not the natural branches, take heed leji