 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 - Page 712edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1834 - 190 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...of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God." Faith, according to the same author, is the assent to any proposition, coming directly... | |
 | Esq. John WOODWARD - 1834 - 298 pages
...posterity should make 208 » use of that reason as their guide ; it was their duty, their trial. " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the Eternal...laid within the reach of their natural faculties."* Our Saviour pronounced a true verdict on the Sadducees, that " they erred, not knowing the Scripture... | |
 | Warren Skinner - 1835 - 162 pages
...a revelation from God to man. Hence, as the justly celebrated writer already mentioned observes, ' Reason is natural revelation, whereby the Eternal...of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they came from God. So that he who takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1836 - 136 pages
...certainly revêtu into a full receipt of the opus magnum. AV'i/i. A further Digression. Tale of a Tub. Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal...of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural Beason enlarged by a new set of discoveries commnnicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the... | |
 | James Stuart M. Anderson - 1839 - 410 pages
...but to despise the noblest gift of God to the natural man ? We admit, in the words of Locke, that ' reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal...portion of truth which He has laid within the reach of the intellectual faculties 1 .' But then, we affirm that the department of truth now under consideration... | |
 | 1840 - 684 pages
...what is good ; for the laws of well-doing are the dictates of right reason." " Reason," says Locke, " is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father...enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God himself." On the subject of instinct, Mr. Addison has written with his usual ability. He observes,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1842 - 540 pages
...deepest, truest, the everlasting, the sympathy with God, lies within the reach of all his Sons. BOOK II. " Reason is natural Revelation, whereby the eternal...Knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of trull 1 which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural Reason... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - 1843 - 768 pages
...allowing sound reason and sound philology to lend mutual assistance, impiously exalt the former * " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal...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, puts out the light of... | |
 | 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...of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God." Faith, according to the same author, is the assent to any proposition coming directly... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pages
...questions of arrangement and classification, of little comparative moment to the points at issue.* communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches...of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he who takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both,... | |
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