From Evangelical Protestantism to Roman Catholicism he passed by slow degrees without once entering the domain of scepticism.

Dissenting altogether from Bishop Butler's view that reason is the only faculty by which we can judge even of revelation, he set religion apart, outside reason altogether.

From the pulpit of St.Mary's he told his congregation that Hume's argument against miracles was logically sound.

It was really more probable that the witnesses should be mistaken than that Lazarus should have been raised from the dead.

But, all the same, Lazarus was raised from the dead: we were required by faith to believe it, and logic had nothing to do with the matter.