A Collection of tracts upon the Trinitarian controversy : relating to the right of private judgment, the sufficiency of Scripture, and the terms of church-communion; upon Christian principles; occasion'd by the late Trinitarian controversy . 7he Abfurditj of OppojingFaith to Reason: o R, A DEFENCE O F CHRISTIANITY, e^ff. r R. Thomas Bradbury havingthought fit, in his Chri-ftian Wifdom, openly, andill the Face of the World,to renounce all PretenfionstoReafon; it will perhapsbe lookd upon as needlefs,and to no Purpofe, to urger . him farther with any thing ot Argument or Reafon againft what he a


A Collection of tracts upon the Trinitarian controversy : relating to the right of private judgment, the sufficiency of Scripture, and the terms of church-communion; upon Christian principles; occasion'd by the late Trinitarian controversy . 7he Abfurditj of OppojingFaith to Reason: o R, A DEFENCE O F CHRISTIANITY, e^ff. r R. Thomas Bradbury havingthought fit, in his Chri-ftian Wifdom, openly, andill the Face of the World,to renounce all PretenfionstoReafon; it will perhapsbe lookd upon as needlefs,and to no Purpofe, to urger . him farther with any thing ot Argument or Reafon againft what he ad-yances. But the it cannot be expeded that this. 154- The Abjurdity of O^pfmg this Gentleman fhould hearken to any thingof Reafon, yet it may not be amifs to take alittle Notice of him, for the Sake of thofe whoare not quite fo much befides themfelves, andwho may be difposd, in fpite of Mr. Bradbury^to exercife their Reafon in Matters of Faith. Iam very well perfwaded that many of thofewho permit Mr. Bradbury to efpoufe their Caufe,would willingly be thought, what they reallyare, fober, and in their right Senfes; and, up-on this Foot, I hope to convince them, thatthey ought not to follow, nor even to fufferthis blind Reviler, who, in the Heat of hisImagination, has Idfl not only his Reafon, buthis Faith too, becaufe he has loft himfelf. Veryhard indeed would^he Cafe, it the Faith ofthe Gofpel fhould oblige Men to renounce theonly Thing that diftinguifhes them from tlieBeafts, and makes them capable of any Reli-gion at all. And fince *tis Reafon alone whichputs us into a Capacity of receiving an y thingas a divine Revelation, in orde


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