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... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Pągina 712editat per - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 pągines
...object of natural reason, it was principally, if not wholly, moral truth, which he bad in his view: " Reason is natural Revelation, whereby the eternal...enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God himself." Upon this passage it is my intention to make a few comments hereafter. I only introduce it... | |
| Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 578 pągines
...eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of Truth, laid within the reach of their natural faculties :...of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that takes away Reason to make way for Revelation, 2K2 puts out the light... | |
| 1824 - 314 pągines
...religious, accountable beings. The provinces of Reason and RevelatioH are thus defined by Mr. Locke : "Reason is natural Revelation, whereby the eternal...of their natural faculties.: Revelation is natural 7?eason,enlarged by a new set or discoveries communicated by God immediately, which Reason vouches... | |
| Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pągines
...Reason from Revelation, as to endeavour to point out their coincidence. The passage is as follows : " Reason is natural Revelation, whereby the eternal...knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of Truth, laid within the reach of their natural faculties : Revelation is natural Reason, enlarged by a new... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 518 pągines
...fancies of a man's own brain, and assumes them for a foundation both of opinion and conduct. fy 4. Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain re^fo"ion. of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 530 pągines
...fancies of a man's own brain, and assumes them for a foundation both of opinion and conduct. § 4. Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain re veiation. of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within... | |
| John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 pągines
...clearly the only way in which a knowledge of God could be communicated to man, such as he could place * ' Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal...portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of his faculties. Revelation is natural reason, enlarged by a new set of discoveries, communicated by... | |
| Robert Waln - 1826 - 108 pągines
...such inconsistencies can proceed from the illuminations of infinite wisdom. " Reason," (says Locke,) " is natural revelation, whereby the "eternal Father...the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natu" ral reason, enlarged by a new set of discoveries, communicated " by God immediately, which reason... | |
| 1826 - 398 pągines
...knowledge; nay, as Mr. Locke observes, " reason is natural revelation, whereby the Eternal Father of light communicates to mankind that portion of truth, which...laid within the reach of their natural faculties, whilst Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God himself."... | |
| Renn Dickson Hampden - 1827 - 360 pągines
...the perception of their evidence.—Thus where Locke, contrasting reason and revelation, observes; " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal...of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God,"*&c. —not to dwell on the looseness with which the terms reason and revelation are... | |
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