Divine Origin of Christianity Deduced from Some of Those Evidences which are Not Founded on the Authenticity of Scripture, Том 2Whittaker, 1829 |
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Страница 99 - Caesar, or of any other man. For suppose a number of common facts so and so circumstanced, of which one had no kind of proof, should happen to come into one's thoughts, every one would, without any possible doubt, conclude them to be false. And the like may be said of a single common fact.
Страница 6 - Consider what he means by it ; the sabbaths, says he, which ye now keep are not acceptable unto me, but those which I have made ; when resting from all things I shall begin the eighth day, that is, the beginning of the other world 10 For which cause we observe the eighth day with gladness, in which Jesus rose from the dead ; and having manifested himself to his disciples, ascended into heaven.
Страница 245 - ... with his father and mother in the time of Cyrenius. But after he was born, what good did he do to his relations ? For they would not, as it is said, believe on him. And yet that stiff-necked and hard-hearted people believed Moses. But Jesus, who rebuked the winds, and walked on the seas, and cast out demons, and, as you will have it, made the heaven and the earth, (though none of his disciples presumed to say this of him except John only, nor he clearly and distinctly ; however, let it be allowed...
Страница 4 - Should not our hearts burn within us at the blessed sound? That word carries in it all our hope and joy. We shall soon bury all our other hope and joy, never to rise again. And shall beings, that have no end, prize any thing that has?
Страница 283 - ... such evidence of its truth, as an imposture could not admit. But now, I carry the remark farther, and assert, that considering the circumstances of the case, it is amazing that even truth itself, under so many disadvantages, should have so illustrious a triumph ; and that its wonderful success does evidently argue such an extraordinary interposition of God in its favour, as may justly be called a miraculous attestation to it.
Страница 70 - God, or matter, or mind ; no action ; no virtue. The great purpose of God, then, I repeat it, in establishing the order of nature, is to form and advance the mind ; and if the case should occur in which the interests of the mind could best be advanced by departing from this order, or by miraculous agency, then the great purpose of the creation, the great end of its laws and regularity, would demand such departure ; and miracles, instead of warring against, would concur wjth nature.
Страница 309 - ... of the proof, we conclude against the whole ; incomplete, if we conclude without it. For though some kind of proof be incapable of accession by an extended cumulative reason, the proof of religion is not of that nature, but one which gathers light and strength by the concentrated force of all its moral evidence. The whole of it, therefore, must be laid together, and the aggregate of the concurrent proofs will close the investigation.
Страница 100 - ... see. Upon all this I conclude, that there certainly is no such presumption against miracles as to render them in any wise incredible; that on the contrary, our being able to discern reasons for them gives a positive credibility to the history of them, in cases where those reasons hold...
Страница 150 - Zoroaster invented, was probably nothing more than the performance of certain religious ceremonies, by means of which good demons were supposed to be prevailed upon to communicate supernatural properties, and powers to herbs, stones, and other natural bodies, or to afford assistance, in other miraculous ways, to those who invoked...
Страница 199 - The works of our Saviour were always conspicuous, for they were real; both those that were healed, and those that were raised from the dead ; who were seen not only when they were healed or raised, but for a long time afterwards: not only whilst he dwelled on this earth, but also after his departure, and for a good while after it, insomuch that some of them have reached to our times *." Justin Martyr came little more than thirty years after Quadratus.