 | John Henry Newman - Anglo-Catholicism - 1877 - 476 pages
...corrupted by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, and during such time as they are permitted, in the degree they evidently are, to act as they will."3 Indeed it certainly does seem presumptuous for a creature, not to say a sinner, to take upon... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Anglo-Catholicism - 1877 - 462 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... | |
 | James Bowling Mozley - Dogma, Development of - 1878 - 342 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... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Row - 1879 - 512 pages
...once, or gradually unfolded. Nay, we are not in any sort able to judge whether the revelation would 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... | |
 | George Park Fisher - Apologetics - 1879 - 200 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... | |
 | Robert Owen Thomas - 1881 - 102 pages
...gradually. We are not able to judge whether it would have been expected that the revelation should have been committed to writing, or left to be handed down, and so corrupted by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased. But it may be... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Oxford movement - 1891 - 526 pages
...corrupted by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, and during such time as they are permitted, in the degree they evidently are, to act as they will." 3 Indeed it certainly does seem presumptuous for a creature, not to say a sinner, to take upon him... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 514 pages
...corrupted, by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, and during such time as they are permitted, in the degree they evidently are, to act as they will. ยง 8. E. g. as between written and oral forms. But it may be said, 'that a revelation in some of the... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1896 - 514 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... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 510 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... | |
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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... 
