 | John Blackburn - 1854 - 392 pages
...supposes it to be designed for the benefit and use of the reasoning faculty. LOCKK has truly said, " He that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both : and does much the same us if we should persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 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... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - Language and languages - 1854 - 576 pages
...reason vouchee 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 OTit his eyes, the better to receive... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 450 pages
...vouches the truth of. by the testimony aml 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 n man to put out his t'yes, the belter to receive the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 438 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... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - Philosophy - 1856 - 388 pages
...modifications that we can accept the wellknown illustration of Locke, when he says that the man 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... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - Faith - 1858 - 510 pages
...by a new set of discoveries communicated by God ; Locke proceeds with the same simile, " 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... | |
 | African Americans - 1858 - 1094 pages
...reason reaches 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 vengeful God, a Devil absolutely... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 588 pages
...zeal, thongh a sweet Christian grace. la exeeedinglr apt to sour. IÍEASON Airo REVELATION. — He that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and is as If he would persuade a man to put out his eyes the better to receive the remote light of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 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... | |
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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,... 
