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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...

he, “comprehends the whole man; it is extended not less to his reason than to his will: wherefore as we are bound to obey the Divine Law, although the will should be reluctant, so also to believe the word of God although reason should contest the matter; for if we believe only those things which are consentaneous to reason, we assent to the things, not to the author, which we are wont to do even to witnesses of suspected fidelity; by how much the more incredible, therefore, some Divine mystery may
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