human
[See above, p. 74, the similar tribute of Mosheim to Ames.] But Culverwel does not really make this attempt. His proposition is that reason,
gpt
discovers
human
(Introd. end); yet he contends not only that faith transcends reason, but that Abraham's attempt to slay his son was a dutiful obeying of
gpt
(pp. 225-26). He does not achieve the simple step of noting that the recognition of revelation as such must be performed by reason, and thus makes no advance on the position of Bacon, much less on those of Pecock and Hooker. His object, indeed, was not to justify orthodoxy by reason against rationalistic unbelief, but to make a case for reason in theology against the Lutherans and others who,
human
scouted all use of it (Introd.). Culverwel, however, was one of the learned group in Emanuel College, Cambridge, whose tradition developed in the next generation into Latitudinarianism; and he may be taken as a learned type of a number of the clergy who were led by the abundant discussion all around them into professing and encouraging a ratiocinative habit of mind. Thus we find Dean Stuart, Clerk of the Closet to Charles I, devoting one of his short homilies to Jerome's text, Tentemus animas quæ deficiunt a fide naturalibus rationibus adjurare.
gpt
It is not enough, he writes,
human
In the following year Henry More, the Cambridge Platonist, published his Antidote against Atheism. The flamboyant dedication to Viscountess Conway affirms that the existence of God is
gpt
; but, the reverend author adds,
human
At the close of the preface he pleasantly explains that he will use no Biblical arguments, but talk to the atheist as a
gpt
; inasmuch as
human
and