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Title: History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology

Author: John F. Hurst

Release Date: September 28, 2006 [EBook #19397]

Language: English

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HISTORY

OF

RATIONALISM

EMBRACING

A SURVEY OF THE PRESENT STATE OF PROTESTANT
THEOLOGY.

BY JOHN F. HURST, D. D.

With Appendix of Literature.

THIRD EDITION, REVISED.

New York:
PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER,
200 MULBERRY-STREET.
1867.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

The Rationalists are like the spiders, they spin all out of
their own bowels. But give me a philosopher who, like the bee,
hath a middle faculty, gathering from abroad, but digesting
that which is gathered by its own virtue.--LORD BACON.

* * * * *

The Bible, I say the Bible only, is the religion of
Protestants.... There is no safe certaintie but of Scripture
only, for any considering man to build upon. This therefore,
and this only I have reason to beleeve; this I will professe;
according to this I will live, and for this I will not only
willingly, but even gladly loose my life, though I should be
sorry that Christians should take it from me. Propose me
anything out of this book, and require whether I believe it or
no, and secure it never so incomprehensible to humane reason,
I will subscribe it