Reason of Faith

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 Excerpt: ...of the duties by him prescribed unto that end, with a due dependence on the aid and affistances, which he will not withhold from any who diligently seek him, infallibly attain that measure of the knowledge of his mind and will, with full assurance thereXz in as will be sufficient to guide him into eternal blessedness. The fame measure of divine knowledge is not required in all and every one, that they may l?ve unto God, and come unto the enjoyment of him. The dispensation of God towards mankind in nature, providence, and grace, is an invincible spring of such variety among them, as will not allow a-prescription of the, same measures of knowledge unto all to have a consistency with divine wisdom and goodness; and a supposition of it would bring confusion into all the order of things and persons which is of divine constitution. Nor is it pretended that any one man may or can have, in the use of any means whatever, a full comprehension of all divine revelations in this lise, nor perhaps of any one of them; or that all men in the use of the same means prescribed unto them, shall have the same conceptions of all things revealed. The Scripture was given for the use of the whole church, and that in all ages, states and conditions, with respect unto that inconceivable variety of circumstances, which all forts of causes do distribute the whole multitude of them into. Wherefore the wisdom of God therein, hath suited itself unto the instruction of every individual believer, unto the moment of his entrance into eternity. That any one of them, that any society of them should have a persect comprehension of the entire revelation of God, or a persect understanding of the whole Scripture, and every part of it, with all that is contained therein, was never required of them ...