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An Essay on the Use and Abuse of Reason in Matters of Religion is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this short work, Witsius explains the controversy surrounding reason and logic in religion. He clearly introduces some foundational issues, such as the definition of reason and how it is used to determine truth and reality. Witsius goes on from there to discuss its place in religion and how believers relate to God and spiritual matters. Separated into thirty-four concise paragraphs, Witsius...

explaining the word of God contrary to the rules of found logic, grammar and rhetoric. XX. But, moreover, if it be still asked, of what use is reason in reference to things revealed, and the sublime mysteries of religion? It must, in the first place, be maintained, that the axioms of reason are circumscribed within certain limits, beyond which they cannot reach; but the mysteries of faith transcend those limits very much, so that it is not right for reason to reject those mysteries, merely because
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