 | David James Vaughan - 1878 - 462 pages
...of Christianity and objections against Christianity itself, writes in his wise and guarded way : ' I express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken...judge concerning anything, even revelation itself.' In these days we are often inclined to be afraid of exercising our reason on any matter which trenches... | |
 | John Richard Turner Eaton - Apologetics - 1879 - 420 pages
...against it, excepting those which are alleged against the particular proofs of its coming from God. I express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken...is, indeed, the only faculty we have wherewith to jndge concerning anything, even Revelation itself: or be misunderstood to assert that a supposed revelation... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Row - 1879 - 512 pages
...following passage of Bishop Butler: — "I express myself with caution lest I should be misunderstood to vilify reason, which is indeed the only faculty...concerning anything, even Revelation itself, or be misunderstood to assert that a supposed revelation cannot be proved false from internal characters."... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English prose literature - 1880 - 352 pages
...be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived ? ' And he believed in reason. ' I express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken...have wherewith to judge concerning anything, even religion itself.' Such was Butler's fidelity to that sacred light to which religion makes too many... | |
 | Brownlow Maitland - 1880 - 180 pages
...that conception of God of which prayer is the offspring, and to 2 "Reason," says Bishop Butler, "is the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything, even revelation itself." (Analogy), Part II. ch. iii. prayer itself; and thus the practice of praying to God stands on a basis... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Christianity - 1883 - 430 pages
...will be what they will be ; why, then, should we desire to be deceived 1 " And he believed in reason. "I express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken...have wherewith to judge concerning anything, even religion itself." Such was Butler's fidelity to that sacred light to which religion makes too many... | |
 | Literature - 1883 - 948 pages
...concerned, I appeal in defence of my religious belief to reason, which, as Butler admirably observes, " is, indeed, the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything, even religion itself.'" If Christianity, if Catholicity, be irrational, if it can be received only upon... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...looking before and after, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to rust in us unused. Reason is the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything, even Revelation itself. Its duty in relation to the Scriptures is to judge not whether they contain things different from what"... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Philosophy and religion - 1884 - 414 pages
...concerned, I appeal in defence of my religious belief to reason, which, as Butler admirably observes, " is, indeed, the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything, even religion itself." If Christianity, if Catholicity, be irrational, if it can be received only upon condition... | |
 | Francis Frith, William Edward Turner, William Pollard - Society of Friends - 1885 - 138 pages
...credulity, but to constant diligence, and to an unwearied search after Truth." — MILTON. " Reason is the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything — even Revelation itself." — BISHOP BUTLER. " Extravagant Dogmatism has made men revolt at the very idea of Dogma." — BISHOP... | |
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I express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken to vilify reason, which is indeed the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything, even revelation itself ; or be misunderstood to assert that a supposed revelation cannot be proved... 
