 ... we may as well doubt of our own being, as we can, whether any revelation from God be true. So that faith is> a settled and sure principle of assent and assurance, and leaves no manner of room for doubt or hesitation. Only we must be sure, that it...  The Works of John Locke - Page 112by John Locke - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...owr minds, and as perfectly excludes all wavering as our knowledge itself ; and we may as well doubt of our own being, as we can whether any revelation from God be true." What is deducible from human experience God enabled us by reason to discover. What lies be3fond our... | |
 | Learned institutions and societies - 1869 - 282 pages
...Faith), the opinion of my friend, Mr. John Locke, whose work was grievously misunderstood at Oxford, " that Faith is a settled and sure principle of assent...leaves no manner of room for doubt or hesitation" And the ground of this supremacy of Faith in Locke'a sense is that it is assent to what, on grounds... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 pages
...our minds, and as perfectly excludes all wavering as our knowledge itself, and we may as well doubt of our own being as we can whether any revelation from God be true." God has given us reason to discover all that is deducible from human experience ; what lies beyond... | |
 | Anna Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 562 pages
...life; what relates to a life beyond our experience God has revealed to us, and, "we may as well doubt of our own being, as we can whether any revelation from God be true." It was in the strength of faith joined with clear energy of reason that Locke studied the Bible, and... | |
 | Elwood Worcester - 1889 - 136 pages
...accepted as among the most settled and most certain of our common ideas, and " we may as well doubt of our own being, as we can whether any revelation from God is true.'' Still the two, Faith and Reason, stand each upon its own grounds. Reason—in contradistinction... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1891 - 176 pages
...our minds and as perfectly excludes all wavering, as our knowledge itself : and we may as well doubt of our own being as we can whether any revelation from God be true. REASON AND REASONING. If general knowledge, as has been shown, consists in a perception of the agreement... | |
 | Georg Graf von Hertling - Cambridge Platonists - 1892 - 344 pages
...Thaten." 5 Dass wir Gott ver1 Ebend. I, 4, § 10. 2 I, 4, § 9. 3 IV, 16, § 14: We may as well doubt of our own being, as we can, whether any revelation from God be true. 18, § 10: Whatever God hath revealed, is certainly true; no doubt can be made of it. 4 III, 9, §... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1894 - 516 pages
...our minds, and as perfectly excludes all wavering,] as our knowledge itself; and we may as well doubt of our own being, as we can whether any revelation...room for doubt or hesitation. Only we must be sure thai it be a divine revelation, and that we understand it right : else we shall expose ourselves to... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...our minds, and as perfectly excludes all wavering as our knowledge itself ; and we may as well doubt ' ' - Q4N What is deducible from human experience God enabled us by reason to discover. What lies beyond our... | |
 | Hiram Van Kirk - 1907 - 152 pages
...our minds and as perfectly excludes all wavering) as our knowledge itself ; and we may as well doubt of our own being, as we can whether any revelation...understand it right: else we shall expose ourselves to to all the extravagance of enthusiasm, and all the error of wrong principles, if we have faith and... | |
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