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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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Faith and Reason.
divinely revealed, or that he understands the Nords righelr, wherein it is
delivered, as he has, that the Contrary is true, and so is bound to consi-
der and judse oF it as a Matter oE Realon, and nOT (allo it, ithou
Examination, as a Mateer oF Faith.
6. 9. TheSumm oF aIl is,
First, Whaterer Propolion is revealed, oF Wrhole Fruth, our Mind, by
its natural Faculcies and Norions, carnot judse, that is purely Matter
ef Faith, and abOVe RCaION.
Secondlo, AII Propolrions, WHercofthe Mind, by che ule oF irs natural
Faculties, ean come to determine and judse, trom natural acquired Ideas,
are Matier of Reason; Wirh chis differerice sill, that in thole, coricernine
ertich it tras buc an uncertain Fvidence, ard s0 is pertuaded oF their
Truch, orly upon probable Crounds, Which sill admit a Possibilies oF
thic Contrary ro be true, without doing Violence to the certain F vidence
oE its own Rnomledse, and overturnins the Principles oF all. Realon: In
fuch probable Propolitioris, I Par, an evident Rerelation oughe eo deter-
mine our Asent eren asainst Probabilitr. For Where the Principles oF Rca:
Con have not determined a Propolition to be certaints true or talle, there
clear Revelation, a5 another Principle of Fruth, and Cirounid ot AVent,
may determine; and (0 it may be Hatter oF Faith, and be also above
Realon. Because Reasori, in that particular Macter, veirs able toreach
notisher than Probabilitr, Fairh save the Determination, Where Reg
Ton came Morr; and Revelation discovered on Wrhich side che Truth lay.
5. 10. Thusfar the Dominion oF Faith reaches, and that wichout anis
violence, or hindrance to Realon; Wrhich is noc injured, or dicturbed, bue
assisted and improved, by new Discoveries oF Truth, comine trom chie
Kternal Fountain oF all Rnowledse. Whatever CrOD hath revealcd, is
certainly true; no Doubt can be madle of it. THis is the prover Object ot
Faith: Buc Wrhether it be a divine Revelation, or no, Reason muct judge;
Wtich can never permit the Mind to reject a grearer Fvidence to embrace
Wrhat is less evident, nor preter lels Cerrainty to the grearer. There can
be no Fridence, that ans traditional Revelation is ot divinc Original, in
the WV ords Wereceive it, and in the sense re understand it, (o clear, and
So certain as those oF the Principles OF RCaIOM: And theretOre; Nothine
ibat is contrary to, and inconsistent with the clear and self. evident Dictates
of Reason, has a Right to be urred, or assented to, a5 a Matter of Faith,
Wherein Reason hath nothine to do. Whatloever is divine Revelation,
ouoht to over rule all our Opinions, Prejudices, and Interests, and hath a
Rishe to be receired with a FuII ARenE: Such a Submission as this oF our
Reason EO FaitI, takes not arar the Land- marks of Rnomledoe: This
Makes not the Foundations of Realon, but leares us that Vsc OF Oux Fa-
culties, for wrhich they vere siven us.
S. IE. I ihe Pravinces ot Faith and Reason are not kept distinet br these
Boundaries, chere ill, in matter of Religion, be no more for Realon at
all; and those extravagant Opinions and Ccremonies, that are to be tound
in Elic several Religions oF ehio Worid, rill not deserve to be blamed:
For, tothis errins up of Faith, in oppolition to Reason, e maz, Pchinle
in 500d meature alcribe those AbIurdities, thaE HII almost alI che Reli-
sions irhich polsess and divide Mankind. For Nen havine been princi-
vled rich an Opinion, that cher must nor consule Reason in the Thines
ot Relision, horverer apparentr contradictory to common senle, and
ehe very Principles oF all their Rnorledse, hare let loose their Fanlies,
and natural superstition, and have been, by ehem, lead into (0 strange
Opinions, and excrarax auc Practices in Rrelision, chat d consiterace Wan
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