. The Christian faith asserted against Deists, Arians, and Socinians : in eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 1728, 1729, and since greatly enlarged : to which is prefix'd, a large preface concerning the light and the law of nature, and the expediency and necessity of revelation. SERMON III Preached Feh, 6. 1718-9. Job XL 7. Canft Thou by fearching find outGod? Canjt thou find out the Al-mighty unto Terjedionl Y Endeavours hitherto havebeen to fliow the clofe Con-nection between Herefy andInfidelity^ as each proceedsupon the fame Common Prin-
. The Christian faith asserted against Deists, Arians, and Socinians : in eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 1728, 1729, and since greatly enlarged : to which is prefix'd, a large preface concerning the light and the law of nature, and the expediency and necessity of revelation. SERMON III Preached Feh, 6. 1718-9. Job XL 7. Canft Thou by fearching find outGod? Canjt thou find out the Al-mighty unto Terjedionl Y Endeavours hitherto havebeen to fliow the clofe Con-nection between Herefy andInfidelity^ as each proceedsupon the fame Common Prin-ciples: Among thefe themain and Fundamental Prin^ciple is this, That all DoHrines and Propojttionsrvhatfoever^ J^vealed^ as well at IJnrevealed areto be judged of and determined by the Li^ht of Na-ture and the Strength of J^afon; in Confequenceof which we are obhged to beHeve no furtherthan this Natural Light and J^afon can dired:us, that is no further, than we can com pre- E 3 hend,. 70 The grand Trinciple hend, and account for what we are requiredto believe. Now this Trinciph is partly True, nor fliouldwe make any Exception to the general Pofition,were it not mifapplied and diverted from its ge-nuin Courfe; as if the ObjeB of our Faith muftbe the SubjeB of our E^iowledge as much as isany ObjeEi of our Sejifes. For it is True, thatwe cannot believe againft our Natural Lightand Apprehenfion of Things, but then it isequaly True, that we may believe thofe Truths,of which we have no Apprehenfion by the Lightof Nature to difcover them at frjly nor anyPower in the Capacity of our Reafon to com-prehend them afterwards. This is a Dictate of l{ea[on^ and NaturalReligion as well as Revealed is founded on it; Forin Natural ]\eligion there are Truths, which wecannot comprehend, and yet the fame Reafon,which cannot comprehend them doth never-thelefs convince us, that we muft believe them;So that tho there are {^omtTruths which by ourNatural Light we cannot originaly difcover,
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