and failingly groped, lost in sin though we were. Accordingly, although faith itself is a miraculous gift from God, even faith takes root in our natural faculties of reason and will. And when we come to reflect on that faith and apply it in our lives, God calls on us to do so using these natural capacities with which he has endowed us. Hooker has little patience with those who “never use reason so willingly as to disgrace reason,” concluding somehow that “the way to be ripe in faith, were to be raw