 | Matthew Tindal - 1730 - 470 sidor
...fame Authority promulgated a different Religion, we fhou'd be oblig'd to receive it ; and indeed, it's an odd Jumble, to prove the Truth of a Book by the Truth of the Doctrines it contains, and at the fame Time conclude thofe Do&rines to be true, becaufe contain'd in that Book ; and yet this is... | |
 | Elisha Smith - 1737 - 494 sidor
...feeing the Contrivance, and Difcovery fo well agree with every Perfection that rules there ? HE fays it is an " odd Jumble, to prove the ** Truth of a Book by the Truth of the Doc** trines it contains ; and at the fame Time to " conclude thefe Doctrines to be true, becaufe "... | |
 | 1869 - 664 sidor
...be governed both by reason and authority. The one must bend to the other. " It is," says Tindal, " an odd jumble to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrine it contains, and at the same time conclude these doctrines to be true because contained in... | |
 | John Hunt - 1871 - 516 sidor
...XI. governed both by reason and authority. The one must bend to the other. ' It is,' Tindal! says, ' an odd jumble to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrine it contains, and at the same time conclude these doctrines to be true because contained in... | |
 | 1880 - 576 sidor
...similar piece of sophistry meets us in the oft-repeated sneer of Matlhew Tindal the deist : ' It's an odd jumble to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrines it contains, and at the same time to conclude those doctrines to be true because contained in that book.' Just so, it might... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 488 sidor
...jumble,' he says, and the argument provoked a good deal of laborious controversy from his opponents, ' to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrines it contains, and at the same time to conclude those doctrines to be true because contained in that book.'7 48. Starting... | |
 | 1880 - 578 sidor
...similar piece of sophistry meets us in the oft-repeated sneer of Matthew Tindal the deist : ' It's an odd jumble to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrines it contains, and at the same time to conclude those doctrines to be true because contained in that book.' Just so, it might... | |
 | Orville Reed - 1905 - 92 sidor
...authority."9 Thus external revelation and the reason of things come into direct conflict. " And it's an odd jumble to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrines it contains and, at the same time, conclude those doctrines to be true because contained in the book; 1. "Christianity,... | |
 | John Watson - 1912 - 400 sidor
...test of truth is therefore agreement with the teaching of reason. " It's an odd jumble," he says, " to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrines it contains, and at the same time to conclude those doctrines to be true because contained in that book." To show that... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - 1913 - 270 sidor
...double government of reason and authority, fall between the two. "It 's an odd jumble," he observes, "to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrines it contains, and at the same time conclude those doctrines to be true because contained in that book." He goes on to criticize... | |
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... it's an odd jumble to prove the truth of a book by the truth of the doctrines it contains, and at the same time conclude those doctrines to be true because contained in that book... 
