 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 578 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 the... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher - Sermons - 1824 - 428 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... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 584 pages
...the conclusion appears to be liable to doubt, or to require considerable qualification, that " he who takes away Reason to make way for Revelation, puts out the light of both." It must indeed be admitted, that to take away any of the mental faculties, and one so important as... | |
 | Theology - 1824 - 314 pages
...Reason vouches tlie 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 truth, and does much the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Theology - 1826 - 420 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 muchwhat the same, as if Jw irould persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 432 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 422 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... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 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 muchwhat the same as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...argument. " He," says Locke, who has forcibly and concisely expressed their common sentiments, " He 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 the... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 708 pages
...doing thereby the greatest injury to the cause which it pretends to subserve. Says Mr. Locke: " He that takes away reason 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... | |
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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,... 
