The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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Page 36
... conviction shall be placed in right correspondence together —and then tell in every instance , whether the inquirer's confidence is in just proportion to the evidence that has been presented to him ? Yet practically and really the ...
... conviction shall be placed in right correspondence together —and then tell in every instance , whether the inquirer's confidence is in just proportion to the evidence that has been presented to him ? Yet practically and really the ...
Page 37
... conviction may be strengthened , and strengthened in the fair and right proportion too , with every accession to the evidence . He , sitting in the direct capacity of a judge in the narrative , may be rightly impressed with all that is ...
... conviction may be strengthened , and strengthened in the fair and right proportion too , with every accession to the evidence . He , sitting in the direct capacity of a judge in the narrative , may be rightly impressed with all that is ...
Page 42
... convictions return to him . In the act of reasoning on the immediate subject - matter of the New Testament history , his invincible ten- dency is to think and feel as before . It is when he reasons upon the reasoning that he gets ...
... convictions return to him . In the act of reasoning on the immediate subject - matter of the New Testament history , his invincible ten- dency is to think and feel as before . It is when he reasons upon the reasoning that he gets ...
Page 63
... conviction of there having been a high - water with a strength equal in the first case to that of two to one , in the second of five to one , in the third of ten to one , in the fourth of twenty to one , and in IN THE CONSTANCY OF ...
... conviction of there having been a high - water with a strength equal in the first case to that of two to one , in the second of five to one , in the third of ten to one , in the fourth of twenty to one , and in IN THE CONSTANCY OF ...
Page 75
... conviction in its truth , and greatest of all when the event is so rare as to be miraculous . But the question what augmenta- tion of testimony on the one hand will overcome the augmentation of improbability from a deficient experience ...
... conviction in its truth , and greatest of all when the event is so rare as to be miraculous . But the question what augmenta- tion of testimony on the one hand will overcome the augmentation of improbability from a deficient experience ...
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