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For Faith is a Virtue, which does not directly look into the reasonableness of the thing deliver'd, by examining how suitable it is in it self to Human Reason; but into the Truth and Security of the Deliverer; and being once evidently convinc'd of this, it readily receives it, with a greater confidence of its being Truth, from that Light accompanying it from the Deliverer, than if it had the Light of Human Reason to give some evidence of the Thing, as consider'd in it self. Hence the True Christian, in his Faith of things Divine, ever follows the steps of Abraham, who was the Father of the Faithful, who, |
For Faith is a Virtue, which does not directly look into the reasonableness of the thing Delivered, by examining how suitable it is in it self to Human Reason; but into the Truth and Security of the Deliverer; and being once evidently convinced of this, it readily receives it, with a greater confidence of its being Truth, from that Light accompanying it from the Deliverer, than if it had the Light of Human Reason to give Some evidence of the Thing, as considered in it self. Hence the True Christian, in his Faith of things Divine, ever follows the steps of Abraham, who was the Father of the Faithful, who, |
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