 | Adam Sedgwick - Education, Higher - 1850 - 786 pages
...reason and faith from each other. " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light communicates to mankind that portion of truth which...vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it give that they come from God." Faith, according to the same author, is the assent to any proposition,... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - Education, Higher - 1850 - 786 pages
...reason and faith from each other. " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light communicates to mankind that portion of truth which...enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by CioU immediately ; which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it give that they... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Apologetics - 1852 - 368 pages
...it was not only ignorant, but •with which it was wholly unconnected." — Semi-Skeptic, p. 65. ral revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and...portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of our faculties. Revelation is natural religion enlarged, and a new set of discoveries communicated immediately... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - Language and languages - 1854 - 576 pages
...and assumes them for a foundation both of opinion and conduct. 4. Reason and Revelation. — Reason is natural revelation, •whereby the eternal Father...discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouchee the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 450 pages
...it was to reason, it was principally, if not wholly, moral truth which he had in his view : " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of Light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicatet to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within tin; reach of their natural... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Religion - 1864 - 506 pages
...everlasting, the sympathy with God, lies within the reach of all his Sons. BOOK II 18 • (H9) " Reason is natural Revelation, whereby the eternal Father...communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he haa laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural Reason enlarged by a new... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 214 pages
...miss (i. iv. 9). Locke's definition of Reason is in itself decisive of the dispute. "Reason," he says, "is Natural Revelation, whereby the Eternal Father...portion of Truth which He has laid within the reach of our Natural Faculties" (iv. xix. 4). Nay, so impressed is Locke with the lofty prerogatives of the... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 218 pages
...(i. iv. 9). Locke's definition of Reason is in itself decisive of the dispute. " Reason," he says, " is Natural Revelation, whereby the Eternal Father...mankind that portion of Truth which He has laid within the^reach of our Natural Faculties" (iv. xix. 4). Nay, so impressed is Locke with the lofty prerogatives... | |
 | African Americans - 1858 - 1094 pages
...reason as the guide of life, for I believe, with a great father of mental philosophy,* that <{ reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father...discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason reaches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - Faith - 1858 - 510 pages
...Revelation, or rather after increasing the confusion, by terming Reason, natural revelation, and Revelation, natural reason, enlarged 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,... | |
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Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties... 
