 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...If reason justly contradicts an article, it is not of the household of faith. — Jeremy Taylor. 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... | |
 | North American review - 1888 - 756 pages
...is the only faculty we have to judge concerning any thing, even revelation itself," and Locke : " He that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both." And as the truth is forever growing larger and clearer, as we claim, on all sides, in science, ii\... | |
 | Mark Pattison - Church and state - 1889 - 460 pages
...Essay, Bk. IV. ch. 19, § 4. 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... | |
 | 1889 - 558 pages
...adorn the walls of every orthodox chui^h." Grand! So Paul would say, "Prove all things." So Locke, "He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both." So Butler, "Reason is the only faculty we have to judge of anything, even revelation itself." So Cook,... | |
 | Elwood Worcester - 1889 - 138 pages
...— mira benignitate pollicentur, ' ' which reminds us of Locke's " He that takes away the Light of 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," etc. (Essay 4, 19, 4).... | |
 | Hudson Tuttle - Free thought - 1890 - 332 pages
...way to gain admission into the portals of science is through the portal of doubt. — SOCRATES. He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both, and does much the same as if he should persuade a man to put out his eyes the better to receive the... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1892 - 566 pages
...reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proot's 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... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...sword shall perish by the sword. Pr. He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, liacon. He offin let there be strewn ; / Not a friend, not a friend greet / My poor corp Locke. He that talks deceitfully for truth must hurt it more by his example than he promotes it by... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...have a reason why two and two should make five ; but they will still make but four.— Johnson. He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both, and docs much the same as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Bible - 1897 - 388 pages
...of the Father, p. vii. CHAPTER VII ' VERBAL DICTATION ' AN UNTRUE AND UNSPIRITUAL HYPOTHESIS. ' He that takes away Reason to make way for Revelation, puts out the light of both.'— JOHN LOCKE. WHAT has been already said should decisively prove that the theory of a ' verbal dictation... | |
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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,... 
