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" A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. "
The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature - Page 419
1821
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On the Miraculous and Internal Evidences of the Christian Revelation: And ...

Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1836 - 402 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire, as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever from...
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Evidences of the Authenticity, Inspiration, and Canonical Authority of the ...

Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1836 - 324 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever from...
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A View of the Principal Deistical Writers: That Have Appeared in England in ...

John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...violation of the laws of nature, and, as a firm and unalterable experience hath established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." The conciseness and consecutiveness of such passages as these — the logical form into which Mr. Hume...
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The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise: A Fragment

Charles Babbage - Natural theology - 1837 - 266 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. * Boswell's Life of Johnson. Oxford, 1826. vol. iii. p. 169, " The plain consequence is (and it is...
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Demonstration of the Truth of the Christian Religion

Alexander Keith - Apologetics - 1839 - 394 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined."* But as all things have NOT continued as they were at the beginning of the creation ; as the laws of...
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Remarks on the credibility of miracles

Henry Taylor - Miracles - 1841 - 28 pages
...established the laws [of nature], the proof against the existence of ice, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined :"* and, " as an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is a direct and full proof from the nature...
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The New Englander, Volume 1

Criticism - 1843 - 644 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." — " The plain consequence is, (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention,) that no testimony...
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The Christian's Defence: Containing a Fair Statement, and Impartial ...

James Smith - Bible - 1843 - 728 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." — (Hume's Essay.) , But as all things have not continued as they were at the beginning of the creation...
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volumes 15-16

Universalism - 1858 - 906 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." 4 And again he says : " A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 24

Theology - 1867 - 848 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." And again : " There must, therefore, be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise...
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