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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42816	Logou thrēskeia, or, A seasonable recommendation and defence of reason in the affairs of religion against infidelity, scepticism, and fanaticisms of all sorts.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1670 (1670)	Wing G812; ESTC R23387	21,978	41

of that Profession know very well and therefore Perronius Gonterius Arnoldus Veronius and other Jesuites have loudly declaimed against Reason and the last mentioned Veronius presented the World with a Method to overthrow Hereticks meaning those of the Protestant Faith which promised more than ordinary And that was to deny and renounce all Principles of Reason in affairs of Faith absolutely and roundly and not to vouchsafe an Answer to any Argument against Transubstantiation or any other Article of their new Faith but point-blank to deny whatever Reason saith in such matters And he affirms that even these Principles of Reason viz. Non entis non sunt Attributa at omne quod est quando est necesse est esse and such like which are the foundations of all reasoning are dangerous to the Catholick Faith and therefore not to be heeded This man speaks out and affirms directly and boldly what the other enemies of Reason imply but will not own This is a Method to destroy Hereticks in earnest but the mischief is all Christians and all other Religions and all other reasonings are cut off by the same Sword This Book and Method of Veronius was kindly received by the Pope priviledged by the King of Spain approved by Cardinals Archbishops Bishops and all the Gallick Clergy as solid and for the advantage of Souls and the Sorbone Doctors gave it their approbation and recommended it as the only way to confute Hereticks Did these know what they recommended And did they think we understand the Interest of the Roman Church If so we kindly serve their ends and promote their Designs in the way which they account best while we vilifie and disparage Reason If This be renounced in matters of Religion with what face can we use it against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation or any other Points of the Roman Creed Would it not be blameless and irreprovable for us to give up our understandings implicitly to the Dictates and Declarations of that Church May we not follow blindly whatever the Infallible Man at Rome and his Councils say And would it not be vain self-contradiction to use Arguments against their Decrees though they are never so unreasonable Or to alledge Consequences from Scripture against any of their Articles though never so contrary to the Holy Oracles How easily may They rejoyn when we dispute against them You argue from Reason and by Consequences But Reason is dull and carnal and an enemy to the things of the Spirit and not to be heard in the high matters of Religion And what can we say next if we consent to the Accusation I say by this way we perfectly disable or grosly contradict our selves in most of our disputes against the Romanists And we are very disingenious in our dealings while we use Reason against them and deny It when 't is urged against our selves by another sort of Adversaries which implies that when we say Reason is not to be heard we mean 'T is not to be heard against us But It must against the Church of Rome or any others we can oppugn by It. Thus I say our denying Reason in Religion is either very humoursome and partial or 't is a direct yielding up our selves to our enemies and doing that our selves which is the only thing They desire to undo us and to promote their own interests upon our Ruines And thus My Brethen I have represented some of the mischiefs that arise from the disparagement of Reason and they are great ones and big of many others and such as are destructive to all Government and all the Interests of the sober part of mankind And I hope I need not intreat You not to contribute to the promoting and continuance of so false and dangerous a conceit The assertion of this is properly Fanaticism and all that we call so grows upon it Here the enemies of our Church and Government began upon this They insisted still and filled their Books and Pulpits and private corners with these Cantings This was the Engine to overthrow all sober Principles and Establishments with This the people were infatuated and credit was reconciled to Gibberish and Folly Enthusiasms and vain Impulses This is the food of Conventicles to this day the root of their matter and the burden of their Preachments Let Reason be heard and tye them to sense and most of their Holders-forth have no more to say Their spirituality for which they are admired is besides Reason and against It rather than above it And while this Principle of the enmity between Reason and Religion stands the people will think Them the more Spiritual Preachers because they are the less reasonable And while they are abused by such a belief 't will be impossible for sober men to have any success in their indeavours to convince them These things I doubt not but you discern and know and therefore I add no more for I am sensible to whom I speak But there are another sort and those Conformists too who are made Divines by the Notes they formerly took from those Canters against Reason To such I should not tell what to say They will whine on and vent their Iargon to perswade them to speak better sense is to desire them to hold their peace which of all things they hate most But I hope there are none of Those here and I could wish the Government would take special care of them where they are For they are the most dangerous enemies the Church of England hath They keep alive the Principles of Phancy and Faction which otherwise would go out of themselves But I let them pass and conclude with a short Advice to the People I HAVE in the foregoing Discourse shewn with all the plainness and perspicuity that I could the fair agreement between Reason and Religion and the mischiefs that arise from the opinion that sets them at odds If what I have said be not clear to your minds 't is because I could not help it All Subjects are not capable of being made alike plain to all Capacities I have all along designed distinct speaking and have as much as I could avoided mixture of Languages and Terms of Art that so you might apprehend that in which I take you to be much concerned though I chiefly intended the Discourse for my Reverend Brethren the Clergy who I doubt not apprehend it fully What I have more to say to YOU is That you would beware of those Teachers that rail against Reason For either they know not what they say or have a design to abuse you Instead of hearkening to such Indeavour to be informed of the Reason of your Faith and Hope For we are fallen into times in which you will have frequent occasion to use it And That faith which is reasonable will not make you ashamed and that hope which is well grounded will not disappoint you But the end of such an hope will be the satisfaction of your desires in the day of your expectations And the end of such a faith the Salvation of your souls in the day of the Lord Iesus To whom with God the Father and God the Holy Ghost be ascribed all Glory and Adoration henceforth and for ever FINIS