 ... 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
 | Charles Bastide - 1907 - 426 pages
...impuissante, il doit souscrire à une vérité probable '. Il ne croira pas ce qui est 1. Wc may as well doubt of our own being as we can whether any revelation from God be true. HU IV, ch. xv1, § 14. La révélation, non la raison, fait connaître Dieu à l'homme. Reason. Christ.,... | |
 | Frank Thilly - Philosophy - 1914 - 1358 pages
...testimony of revelation, however, Locke regards as the highest certainty ; our assent to it is_£aiih- Faith is a settled and sure principle of assent and...doubt or hesitation. Only, — we must be sure that it is a divine revelation. And, therefore, our assent can be rationally no higher than the evidence of... | |
 | Samuel Gring Hefelbower - Deism - 1918 - 204 pages
...knowledge. 1 But once we are persuaded by sound reason that a revelation is from God, "we may as well doubt of our own being, as we can whether any revelation from God is true."* The closing paragraph of Locke's first letter to Stillingneet gives his attitude toward... | |
 | Raymond Gregory - Knowledge, Theory of - 1919 - 112 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."§ Evidently revelation has a peculiar MI. xxL 5. tIV. ii. 1. potency, but just what this is, is not evident.... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1924 - 438 pages
...our mm3s~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...be a divine revelation, and that we understand it rigril : else we shall 'expose~ouf selves to all the extravagancy of enthusiasm, and all the error... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 436 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...to all the extravagancy of enthusiasm, and all the errour of wrong principles, if we have faith and assurance in what is not divine revelation. It has... | |
 | Avery Dulles - Religion - 1996 - 324 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...sure principle of assent and assurance, and leaves no man ner of room for doubt or hesitation" 1I V,I 6, 14), But Locke then goes on to say that before we... | |
 | John Marshall - History - 1994 - 514 pages
...our Minds, and as perfectly excludes all wavering as our Knowledge it self; and we may as well doubt of our own Being, as we can, whether any Revelation from GOD be true'. For Locke, however, men had to be sure that such a revelation came from God, and in order to exclude... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Mathematics - 1996 - 528 pages
...which 'as perfectly excludes all wavering' as does the most certain knowledge. But it is important to 'be sure, that it be a divine revelation, and that we understand it right'; otherwise one will be exposed to fanaticism and to the errors of a wrong interpretation. And in a case... | |
 | Jan Schröder - Philosophy - 1998 - 240 pages
...our Minds, and as perfectly excludes all wavering as our Knowledge it seif; and we may as well doubt of our own Being, as we can, whether any Revelation from GOD be true. So that Faith is a setled and sure Principle of Assent and Assurance, and leaves no manner of room for Doubt or Hesitation.... | |
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