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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Chapter 5: Is any point of Faith above Reason, or contrary to it?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 5. IV. The Gospel of Christ, and many points of Faith are above his Reason that hath only such natural Light as the Creation can give him, without any Gospel supernatural Revelation. Who can know in India that never heard of Christ, that he was incarnate, and rose from the dead, and ascended, &c.?
§. 6. V. Nothing that God commandeth us to believe, is either contrary to, or above Reason (that is the reasoning Intellect) informed by Evangelical Revelation or Notice, and honestly and soundly qualified to judge otherwise, as Law, Physic, Astronomy, so Divinity is above the Reason of the unqualified.
§. 6. V. Nothing that God commandeth us to believe, is either contrary to, or above Reason (that is the reasoning Intellect) informed by Evangelical Revelation or Notice, and honestly and soundly qualified to judge otherwise, as Law, Physick, Astronomy, so Divinity is above the Reason of the unqualified.
§. 7. This is apparent, 1. Because we have •o Faith in us, but what is an act of Reason and ••tional Will; and therefore that cannot be said […] be above Reason, which is it self essentially •n Act of Reason. By what Faculty do we be••eve, but by the rational Intellect and Will? •nd this Intellect hath but two sorts of Acts, •. Immediate Self-perceptions, which some call In[…]uitions, and some, Eminent Internal Sensation. •. Abstrative Knowledge by Reasoning. And •he first way we perceive nothing but our own acts: Therefore it must be the latter, or not at all.