An account of reason & faith in relation to the mysteries of Christianity / by John Norris.

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An account of reason & faith in relation to the mysteries of Christianity / by John Norris.

Author

Norris, John, 1657-1711.

Publication

London :: Printed for S. Manship ...,

1697.

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Subject terms

Toland, John, 1670-1722. -- Christianity not mysterious.

Deism -- Controversial literature.

Christianity -- Philosophy.

Faith and reason.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Right Honourable Henry Lord of Colerane.
• THE PREFACE.
• THE CONTENTS.
• The Introduction.
• CHAP. I. Of Reason.
• CHAP. II. Of Faith.
• CHAP. III. The Distinction of things Contrary to Reason, and above Reason, Consider'd.
• CHAP. IV. That Human Reason is not the Measure of Truth.
• CHAP. V. That therefore a things being In∣comprehensible by Reason is of it self no Concluding Argument of its not being True.
• CHAP. VI. That if the Incomprehensibility of a thing were an Argument of its not being true, Human Reason would then be the Measure of Truth.
• CHAP. VII. That therefore the Incomprehensibility of a thing is no just Objection against the Belief of it. With an Account of the Cartesian Maxim, that we are to Assent only to what is Clear and Evident.
• CHAP. VIII. Wherein is shewn what is the true Use of Reason in Believing.
• CHAP. IX. An Application of the foregoing Considerations to the Mysteries of Christianity.
• CHAP. X. The Conclusion of the whole, with an Address to the Socinians.
• POST-SCRIPT.
• Corrections.
• Books Printed for, and Sold by S. Manship at the Ship in Corn∣hil, near the Royal Exchange.