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" That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish... "
Real Conversations - Page 39
by William Archer - 1904 - 254 pages
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 8

John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...kind which Mr. Hume has acknowledged sufficient to establish even a miracle. " No testimony (says in j is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which, it endeavours to establish. When one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 12

Liberalism (Religion) - 1817 - 780 pages
...by the interposition of an Invisible Agent." This Essay, to use his own words, is designed to show " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...miraculous, than the fact which it endeavours to establish : and even, in that case, there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us...
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Essays and treatises on several subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...which is superior *. The plain consequence is, (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), " That no testimony is sufficient " to establish a miracle,...miraculous " than the fact which it endeavours to establish : And even " in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, " and the superior only gives...
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A history of the holy Bible, corrected and improved by G. Gleig, Volume 3

Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...sufficient to establish the credibility even of a miracle. " No testimony, says he, (b) is sufficient M establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish — When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself,...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...consequence is, (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), " That no testimony is sufficient " to_ establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...miraculous " than the fact which it endeavours to establish : And even " in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, " and the superior only gives...
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The Continuation of the Narrative of Miss Margaret M'Avoy's Case: With ...

Thomas Renwick - 1820 - 360 pages
...destructive of the physical wonders displayed by Miss M^Woy. It has been well observed, he says, that 164 " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." ." And I shall leave it to the world to decide, whether the evidence to the miracle in question is...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1881 - 1046 pages
...show that the testimony completely fulfils the requirement of Hume, namely, that to prove a miracle ' the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' To us it seems that he has done little more than indicate the line of argument which leads to that...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 14

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 880 pages
...kind which Mr Hume has acknowledged sufficient to establish even a miracle. " No testimony (says he) is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. When one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether...
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On Evidences of Christianity, &c: Twenty Discourses Preached Before the ...

Christopher Benson - Apologetics - 1824 - 500 pages
...imagined," and he deduces as a plain and necessary consequence, this general and important maxim ; •" that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it endeavours to establish." And even in that case he maintains, that " there is a mutual destruction...
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On evidences of Christianity

Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 pages
...imagined," and he deduces as a plain and necessary consequence, this general and important maxim ; " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it endeavours to establish." And even in that case he maintains, that " there is a mutual destruction...
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