"Faith" and "Reason" are friends, not enemies...

Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth (1724) Isaac Watts.
Soli Deo Gloria Publications: Morgan, PA. ISBN: 1-57358-055-4 This edition
printed 1996.

     "Logic is the art of using Reason* well in our inquires after truth, and
the communication of it to others.
     Reason* is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminencies
whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower
world." p.1

"*The word Reason in this place is not confined to the mere faculty of
reasoning, or inferring one thing from another, but includes all the
intellectual powers of man." p.1

"âIt is the cultivation of our reason by which we are better enabled to
distinguish good from evil, as well as truth from falsehood; and both these are
matters of the highest importance, whether we regard this life, or the life to
come.
     The pursuit and acquisition of truth is of infinite concernment to
mankind. Hereby we become acquainted with the name of things both in heaven and
earth, and their various relations to each other. It is by this means we
discover our duty to God and our fellow-creatures; by this we arrive at the
knowledge of natural religion, and learn to confirm our faith in divine
revelation, as well as to understand what is revealed. Our wisdom, prudence,
and piety, our present conduct and our future hope, are all influenced by the
use of our rational powers in the search after truth." p.2



"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." JOHN 8:32
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