 | John Sheppard - 1837 - 358 pages
...a wish to diminish the supreme authority of revelation." — And he appositely quotes Locke : — " He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both."* — But my general motives for the previous collections, as well as for remarks on this branch of the... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1837 - 358 pages
...by a wish to diminish the supreme authority of revelation."—And he appositely quotes Locke :—" He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both."*—But my general motives for the previous collections, as well as for remarks on this branch... | |
 | Baden Powell - 1838 - 376 pages
...philosophiam in theologiS quserere non aliud est, quam mortuos quserere inter vivos." BACON, (De Augm., ix.) " He that takes away reason to make way for revelation,...out the light of both ; and does much the same as if we should persuade a man to put out his eyes the better to receive the light of an invisible star by... | |
 | Baden Powell - 1838 - 338 pages
...theologia quserere non aliud est, 411:1111 mortuos quaerere inter vivos." BACON, (De Augm., in.) " He tbat takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts...out the light of both; and does much the same as if we should persuade a man to put out his eyes the better to receive the light of an invisible star by... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1838 - 244 pages
...harmonizes with the declarations of the sacred writings."* " He that takes a way Reason," says Locke, " to make way for Revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much about the same as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes the better to receive the remote light... | |
 | Baden Powell - 1838 - 352 pages
...quaerere inter vivos." BACOX, (De Avgm^ iz.) " He that takes away reason to make way for revelation, 'pnU out the light of both ; and does much the same as if we should persuade a man to put out his eyes the better to receive the light of an invisible star by... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - 1843 - 784 pages
...which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties : revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately,...for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much-what the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 pages
...which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately...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... | |
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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... 
