 | J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 pages
...reason vouches the truth 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 both, and does much-what the same, as if he .would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | 1835 - 700 pages
...subject. " He " (says Locke, who has ' forcibly and concisely expressed their common sentiments) ' " that takes away Reason to make way for Revelation, puts out ' the light of both ; and does much the same as if we would ' persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 508 pages
...vouches the truth 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 both, and does inuch-what the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...Reason vouches the truth 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 both ; and does much what the same, as if he would 283 persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to... | |
 | Pierre-Daniel Huet - Bishops - 1810 - 506 pages
...indispose the mind to receive the suggestions of faith, than prepare it for such reception, is bat feebly answered. For, if reason gives no criterion...Revelation, puts out the light of both." XXI. Huetiana, ou PensZes diverses ds M. Hitet, 1722, 12mo. This volume was published the year after Hnet's death by... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1814 - 582 pages
...vouches the " truth 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, " and does much the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the " better to receive... | |
 | Unitarian Universalist churches - 1815 - 882 pages
...reason vouches the truth 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 both ; and does much the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher - Apologetics - 1815 - 52 pages
...reason vouches the truth 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 both ; and does much the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out "his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 406 pages
...reason Vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it £ives that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason, to make way 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, ithe better to receive... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 518 pages
...reason vouches the truth 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 both, and does much-what the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
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... is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately; which reason vouches the truth 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,... 
