. The works of the Reverend and learned Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton : containing all the sermons, discourses, and tracts published in his life time . flraints; when the rawunformed Touth comes once (as perhaps witha fcanty portion of under ft an dmg, and veryflender exercife ofReafon he may) to dfcover aflaw or weaknefs in fome thijigs, that, it maybe, he hath been taught to look upoii as equallyfacred with God and virtue, good?iefs and ho-nefiy, mufl it not be natural for him, uponfuch a dijcovery, with the concurrence of wildpaffions, ufed to no regular govermnent, to drawvery general and ha
. The works of the Reverend and learned Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton : containing all the sermons, discourses, and tracts published in his life time . flraints; when the rawunformed Touth comes once (as perhaps witha fcanty portion of under ft an dmg, and veryflender exercife ofReafon he may) to dfcover aflaw or weaknefs in fome thijigs, that, it maybe, he hath been taught to look upoii as equallyfacred with God and virtue, good?iefs and ho-nefiy, mufl it not be natural for him, uponfuch a dijcovery, with the concurrence of wildpaffions, ufed to no regular govermnent, to drawvery general and hafty conclufions, and to* throw up at once every thing he hath been for-Vol, IV. R. * merly 232 To the R E A D E R. merly taught, and which his Education hath Jurnijhed him with nothing to fay for, more * than for fome things he hath now found to be * trifling and ahfurd T Mere may it not be juftly made a Query,Whether Parents and InjlriiSiors were notfirjiled into this error, in the Education of Children,by Divines ? And, whether therefore thefe latter,CIS they led them in, are riot concerned to do theirendeavour to lead them out of it again ?. CLU E R I E S QUERIES Propofed to the Consideration &fr. ^u E R r I Is not Reafon that faculty of the mindby which we perceive the truth or falf^hood of Propofitions (as well as their mean-ing) that is, indeed, the evidence of theirtruth or falfliood ? Even (hewing the rea^fonable?2efs of things, what is it elfe but Shew-ing the truth of fome Propofition relating totheir reafonablenefs ? As he that proves oTfees the reafonablenefs of gratitude^ does, inefFe(ft, prove or fee the truth of this Propo-fition, that gratitude is a reafonable thing. Isnot this a right notion of Reafon? And isthere any thing of carnality in Reafon thusexplained ? Is not carjial Reafon, in this fenfeof the word, a contradidion in terms? There R 2 being. 234 QUERIES. being, In fa6t, no worfe foes to Reafon, orgreater hinderances and obftrudions in reafon-ing, efpe
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