 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 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 the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 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 * man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1830 - 628 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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Natural theology - 1835 - 340 pages
...chapter. It is remarkable how little is to be found of * Mr. Locke has said, upon a similar question, " 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 belter to receive... | |
 | Warren Skinner - Future punishment - 1835 - 162 pages
...vouches the truth 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 both ; and 'does much the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | John Sheppard - Religious poetry - 1837 - 358 pages
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 648 pages
...explanation, I think, we cannot fail to perceive the force and beauty of Locke's conclusion, ' 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 the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Baden Powell - Natural theology - 1838 - 376 pages
...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, 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... | |
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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,... 
