Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late Reverend and Learned Hugh Farmer: To Which Is Added, a Piece of His, Never Before Published, Printed from the Only Remaining Manuscript of the Author. Also, Several Original Letters, and an Extract from His Ess
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late Reverend and Learned Hugh Farmer: To Which Is Added, a Piece of His, Never Before Published, Printed from the Only Remaining Manuscript of the Author. Also, Several Original Letters, and an Extract from His Ess
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ... and the arguments he has alledged to shew that miracles are works peculiar to GOD) he "considers Mr. Farmer as approaching "much too near some exceptionable doc"trines advanced by LORD BOLING"BROKE and MR. HUME." Mr. Hume (cited by Mr. Fell, p. 128) says "A miracle isa violation of the laws of i nature. nature." Mr. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ... and the arguments he has alledged to shew that miracles are works peculiar to GOD) he "considers Mr. Farmer as approaching "much too near some exceptionable doc"trines advanced by LORD BOLING"BROKE and MR. HUME." Mr. Hume (cited by Mr. Fell, p. 128) says "A miracle isa violation of the laws of i nature. nature." Mr. Farmer is so far from adopting this idea, that, on the contrary, he maintains That no effect can ever be produced Contrary to the laws of nature; if thereby be meaned, the natural powers of All Orders of existence. (Dissertation on Miracles, page 6) And therefore he limited the phrase "the laws of nature," to the Rules by which the visible world is statedly governed. Dissertation page 7. See also pages l2rf and 10. " By the laws of nature, I mean, those rules by which the visible world is 'statedly governed, or the ordinary course of events in it, as fixed and ascertained by observation and experience; and particularly the order of the system to which we belong." A note is subjoined to illustrate the author's meaning. "f "Effects produced by the regular operation of the laws of nature, or that are conformable to its established course, are called natural. Effects contrary to this settled constitution and course of things I esteem miraculous...", .-.... Now Now there is an essential difference between an effect produced contrary to the natural powers of all orders of existence, (which is an absolute impossibility, ) and an effect contrary to the stated rules by which the visible world is statedly governed, which are ever subject to the controul of him who made it. If Mr. Hume, by " the laws of nature," meaned--the Constitution of nature, the violation of the former see...
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