An Extract from Mr. Law’s Later Works.
An extract from the case of reason, or natural religion, fairly and fully stated. In answer to a book, entitled Christianity as Old as the Creation.
[The introduction], shewing the state of the controversy.
Enquiring, whether there be any thing in the nature and condition of man, to oblige him to think, that he is not to admit of any doctrines or institutions, as revealed from God, but such as his own reason can prove to be necessary from the nature of things.
Shewing from the relation between God and man, that human reason cannot be a competent judge of the fitness and reasonableness of God’s proceedings with mankind, either as to the time, or matter, or manner of an external revelation.
Shewing how far human reason is able to judge of the reasonableness, truth, and certainty of divine revelation.