...to lend anv attention to it, with whatever specious pretence it mav he covered. 40 1 am the hetter pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered,...those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the (.hn.liun Religion, who have undertaken to defend it hy the principles of human reason. Our most holv...

...covered. 40 I am the hetter pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as 1 think it mav serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised...Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it hy the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith , not on reason; and...

...orthodox divines, pushed into a corner by the deists ("those dangerous friends or disguised enemies of the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason"),l6 were led ultimately to assert very emphatically that the fundamental truths of religion...

...Essay on Mirades, has well propounded a doctrine, which at the same time he unsapplies. He speaks of 'those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the...principles of human Reason'. 'Our most holy Religion,' he proceeds, 'is founded on Faith, not on Reason.' This is said in irony; but it is true as far as...

...natural faculties" are "the proper matter of faith," the truth of Christianity being such a matter: I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning...confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies of the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our...

...the better pleased with the method ol reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to con1ound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the...Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it bv the principles of human reason. Our most holv religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it...

...exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure'. This was the tactic of 'those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the...undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason.' This was presumably a disingenuous swipe at Locke, who abandoned the championing of reason when confronted...

...that he knew his essay.20 He was all too well aware that he would be likely to be regarded as one of 'those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the...undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason' that Hume identifies. But Geddes would have parted company with Hume that so to argue is to play into...

...specious. In fact, religion is founded on faith, not reason. "I am the better pleased," concludes Hume, with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I...confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies of the Christian religion who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most...

...who acem all of them to have an wnconquerablo appetite for falsehood and fable." 1 I am the hotter pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered,...disguised enemies to the Christian religion, who have nudertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith,...