Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

And yet by all this which hath been spoken we do not go about so to disable Natural Reason, as to leave it no room at all in matters of supernatural Assent. For though Nature alone be not able to comprehend Grace, yet Grace is able to use Nature, and being it self a spiritual Eye-salve, when it hath healed and rectified Reason, it then applieth it as an Instrument more exactly to discover the connection and mutual consequences, and joinings of spiritual Doctrines together. Besides thus much vigour ⟨p. 207⟩we may safely attribute to Natural Reason alone, that by the force of such premises as it self can frame, the falseness, vanity, and insufficiency unto humane happiness, of all other Religions or Doctrines which are not Christian may by a wise man be evidently discovered, neither have there ^*been wanting amongst Infidels and Idolaters, men of more generous, piercing, and impartial judgments, who have made bold to confess the vanity of that polytheism and corrupt worship which was amongst them.

And yet by all this which hath been spoken wee doe not goe about so to disable Naturall Reason, as to leave it no roome at all in matters of supernaturall Assent. For though Nature alone bee not able to comprehend Grace, yet Grace is able to use Nature, and being it selfe a spirituall Eye-salve, when it hath healed and rectified Reason, it then applyeth it as an Instrument more exactly to discover the connexion and mutuall consequences, and joynings of spirituall Doctrines together. Besides thus much vigour ⟨p. 207⟩wee may safely attribute to Naturall Reason alone, that by the force of such premises as it selfe can frame, the falsenesse, vanity, and insufficiency unto humane happinesse, of all other Religions or Doctrines which are not Christian may by a wise man bee evidently discovered, neither have there ^*beene wanting amongst Infidels and Idolaters, men of more generous, piercing, and impartiall judgments, who have made bold to confesse the vanity of that polutheisme and corrupt worship which was amongst them.

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