 | George Stanley Faber - Apologetics - 1829 - 230 pages
...if we admit the evident absurdity of the terms in which it is couched. No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculotis than the fact which it endeavours to establish. Such is Mr. Hume's conclusion from his... | |
 | James Douglas - Apologetics - 1831 - 264 pages
...testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish ; and, even in that case, there is a...force which remains after deducting the inferior." Had Hume adhered to his own absurd test, he would still have been a Christian. [ Note F. ] In addition... | |
 | 1831 - 524 pages
...miracles recorded in the Bible ; and this is just what Hume meant it should. Hume was consistent. " When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that the person should either... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1832 - 270 pages
...substitute the word improbable, for miraculous. And it will then read, No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more improbable, than the fact which it endeavors to establish. The ground of objection to the word, miraculous,... | |
 | George Hill - Apologetics - 1833 - 604 pages
...Hume, although he certainly did not mean them to be so applied : .. " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." The falsehood of the testimony of the apostles would be more miraculous, ie it is more improbable than... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 614 pages
...endures.' And the argument thus ostentatiously produced is, — ' That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' — Essays, vol. ii. p. 123. In reply — we must begin by observing Mr. Hume's total omission of the... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...endures.' And the argument thus ostentatiously produced is, — ' Tluit no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous them the fact which it endeavours to establish.' — Essays, vol. ii. p. 123. In reply — we must... | |
 | 1835 - 612 pages
...testimony," says he, "is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish :" the term " prodigy" also (which he all along emplov* as synonymous "with... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1836 - 322 pages
...substitute the word improbable for miraculous. And it will then read : No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more improbable, than the fact which it endeavours to establish. The ground of objection to the word miraculous,... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1836 - 324 pages
...The maxim is this, " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless it be of tsiich a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact." An ingenious writer* has undertaken to meet Mr. Hume on his own ground, * Dr. Glcig. and has endeavoured... | |
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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. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... 
