 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, * See Chap. vi. and during such time as they are permitted, in the degree they evidently are, to act as they will. But it may be said, " that a revelation in some of the above-mentioned circumstances ; one, for instance,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...are not in .any sort able to judge, whether it were to have been expected, that the revelation should have been committed to writing; or left to be handed down, and consequently corrupted, by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, *... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...are not in any sort able to judge, whether it were to have been expected that the revelation should have been committed to writing, or left to be handed down, and consequently corrupted by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, and... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...are not in any sort able to judge, whether it were to have been expected that the revelation should have been committed to writing, or left to be handed down, and consequently corrupted by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Apologetics - 1828 - 314 pages
...with equal clearness and conviction, at the same period, or successively ; or even, whether it should have been committed to writing, or left to be handed down (and, consequently, corrupted) by verbal tradition. For we are in no sort judges beforehand by what laws... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 318 pages
...with equal clearness and conviction, at the same period, or successively ; or even, whether it should have been committed to writing, or left to be handed down (and, consequently, corrupted) by verbal tradition. For we are in no sort judges beforehand by what laws... | |
 | Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1831 - 458 pages
...corrupted, by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, and during such of Jesus from the dead, from this expression in the second Psalm (which, though it d '* Now, since- it has been shown, that we have no principles of reason upon which to judge beforehand,... | |
 | Apologetics - 1834 - 588 pages
...are not in any sort able to judge, whether it were to have been expected, that the revelation should have been committed to writing ; or left to be handed down, and consequently corrupted, by verbal tradition, and."at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, and... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1834 - 414 pages
...are not in any sort able to judge, whether it were to have been expected, that the revelation should have been committed to writing ; or left to be handed down, and consequently corrupted, by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, and... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Church - 1837 - 450 pages
...judge" says that profound thinker, " whether it were to have been expected, that the Revelation should have been committed to writing; or left to be handed down, and consequently corrupted by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, and... | |
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Nay we are not in any sort able to judge, whether it were to have been expected, that the revelation should have been committed to writing ; or left to be handed down, and consequently corrupted, by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind... 
