 | 1837 - 682 pages
...to us the impalpable world of truth and Knowledge. Aitain : Revelation is natural reason enlarged hy a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately,...testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. That is, revelation in its technical import, a an enlargement of the knowledge of mankind by a new... | |
 | 1837 - 648 pages
...of it. Locke says : ' Reasoo is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge communicates to mankind that portion of Truth which he hat laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation it) natural reason, enlarged by a... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 pages
...reason and faith from each other. " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light communicates to mankind that portion of truth which...testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God." Faith, according to the same author, is the assent to any proposition coming directly from God in the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pages
...had in his view ; " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of Light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion...natural reason, enlarged by a new set of discoveries, By some philosophers, the meaning of the word has been of late restricted still farther ; to the power... | |
 | 1846 - 818 pages
...heaven. " Reason," he says, " is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion...by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come 1 Essay concerning Human Understanding, Book IV. Uh. II. § 12. 1846.] Opinions of Locke, Baxter, Berkeley... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1846 - 418 pages
...his Sons. BOOK II. " Reason is natural Revelation, whereby the eternal Father of Light, ami Fountain of .all Knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion...of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they cqme from God, So that he that takes away Reason, to make way for Revelation, puts out the light of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1847 - 666 pages
...questions of arrangement and classification, of little comparative moment to the points at issue.* communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the It-minion}' and proof* it gives that they come from God. 80 that he who takes away reason to make wny... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1850 - 786 pages
...reason and faith from each other. " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light communicates to mankind that portion of truth which...vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it give that they come from God." Faith, according to the same author, is the assent to any proposition,... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1850 - 786 pages
...reason and faith from each other. " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light communicates to mankind that portion of truth which...enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by CioU immediately ; which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it give that they... | |
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Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new... 
