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  1      I,  II    |       without the help of positive revelation.~14. Those who maintain
  2     II,  I     |         and it cannot be less than revelation, that discovers to another
  3     II,  XXVIII|            nature, or the voice of revelation. That God has given a rule
  4     IV,  III   |          of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency
  5     IV,  III   |           of other spirits, but by revelation. Angels of all sorts are
  6     IV,  VI    |          to be known by us without revelation. Nor if it were revealed
  7     IV,  VII   |       these principals. It is from revelation we have received it, and
  8     IV,  VII   |           received it, and without revelation these maxims had never been
  9     IV,  VII   |           of two others, this is a revelation from God to us by the voice
 10     IV,  VII   |         any truth to us, this is a revelation to us by the voice of his
 11     IV,  XI    |           God. We have ground from revelation, and several other reasons,
 12     IV,  XII   |            think, expect only from revelation. He that shall consider
 13     IV,  XIV   |       rational to think, even were revelation silent in the case, that,
 14     IV,  XVI   |           bare testimony of divine revelation is the highest certainty.
 15     IV,  XVI   |         called by a peculiar name, revelation, and our assent to it, faith,
 16     IV,  XVI   |       being, as we can whether any revelation from God be true. So that
 17     IV,  XVI   |           sure that it be a divine revelation, and that we understand
 18     IV,  XVI   |    assurance in what is not divine revelation. And therefore, in those
 19     IV,  XVI   |            evidence of its being a revelation, and that this is the meaning
 20     IV,  XVI   |            evidence of its being a revelation, or that this is its true
 21     IV,  XVIII | discovering truths to men, we call revelation.~3. No new simple idea can
 22     IV,  XVIII |            conveyed by traditional revelation. First, Then I say, that
 23     IV,  XVIII |         inspired by God can by any revelation communicate to others any
 24     IV,  XVIII |        immediate hand of God, this revelation, if it be of new simple
 25     IV,  XVIII |          of them, from traditional revelation. I say, traditional revelation,
 26     IV,  XVIII |     revelation. I say, traditional revelation, in distinction to original
 27     IV,  XVIII |            distinction to original revelation. By the one, I mean that
 28     IV,  XVIII |            another.~4. Traditional revelation may make us know propositions
 29     IV,  XVIII |             and conveyed down from revelation, which are discoverable
 30     IV,  XVIII |         may have. So God might, by revelation, discover the truth of any
 31     IV,  XVIII |           is little need or use of revelation, God having furnished us
 32     IV,  XVIII |      conveyed to us by traditional revelation. For the knowledge we have
 33     IV,  XVIII |        knowledge we have that this revelation came at first from God can
 34     IV,  XVIII |            had their original from revelation: and yet nobody, I think,
 35     IV,  XVIII |           assurance of its being a revelation is less still than the assurance
 36     IV,  XVIII |           senses.~5. Even original revelation cannot be admitted against
 37     IV,  XVIII |         need not the assistance of revelation, as necessary to gain our
 38     IV,  XVIII |         knowledge is, that it is a revelation from God. But yet nothing,
 39     IV,  XVIII |          the authority of a divine revelation: since the evidence, first,
 40     IV,  XVIII |         can be received for divine revelation, or obtain the assent due
 41     IV,  XVIII |        truth of its being a divine revelation greater than our own knowledge.
 42     IV,  XVIII |            anything to be a divine revelation, as it has of the principles
 43     IV,  XVIII |            to a proposition, whose revelation has not a greater evidence
 44     IV,  XVIII |    principles have.~6. Traditional revelation much less. Thus far a man
 45     IV,  XVIII |          in immediate and original revelation, where it is supposed to
 46     IV,  XVIII |           pretend not to immediate revelation, but are required to pay
 47     IV,  XVIII |            faith being only divine revelation, and nothing else, faith,
 48     IV,  XVIII |         not see how those who make revelation alone the sole object of
 49     IV,  XVIII |        inspiration. Without such a revelation, the believing, or not believing,
 50     IV,  XVIII |           is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting
 51     IV,  XVIII |           thinks fit, the light of revelation in any of those matters
 52     IV,  XVIII |            probable determination; revelation, where God has been pleased
 53     IV,  XVIII |           the truth of its being a revelation, and of the signification
 54     IV,  XVIII |          anything shall be thought revelation which is contrary to the
 55     IV,  XVIII |           as a matter of faith.~9. Revelation in matters where reason
 56     IV,  XVIII |    propositions, I say, an evident revelation ought to determine our assent,
 57     IV,  XVIII |         true or false, there clear revelation, as another principle of
 58     IV,  XVIII |       where reason came short; and revelation discovered on which side
 59     IV,  XVIII |         but whether it be a divine revelation or no, reason must judge;
 60     IV,  XVIII |      evidence that any traditional revelation is of divine original, in
 61     IV,  XVIII |           do. Whatsoever is divine revelation, ought to overrule all our
 62     IV,  XIX   |            by reason, would set up revelation without it. Whereby in effect
 63     IV,  XIX   |         takes away both reason and revelation, and substitutes in the
 64     IV,  XIX   |         and conduct.~4. Reason and revelation. Reason is natural revelation,
 65     IV,  XIX   |      revelation. Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father
 66     IV,  XIX   |           their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged
 67     IV,  XIX   |        away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both,
 68     IV,  XIX   |           of enthusiasm. Immediate revelation being a much easier way
 69     IV,  XIX   |        been very apt to pretend to revelation, and to persuade themselves
 70     IV,  XIX   |       neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rising from the conceits
 71     IV,  XIX   |         into this way of immediate revelation, of illumination without
 72     IV,  XIX   |           or of this, that it is a revelation from God? This feeling,
 73     IV,  XIX   |            that it is an immediate revelation from God. I may perceive
 74     IV,  XIX   |          my perceiving it to be, a revelation: nay, I may perceive I came
 75     IV,  XIX   |            perceiving that it is a revelation of God. Because there be
 76     IV,  XIX   |            proposition taken for a revelation is not such as they know
 77     IV,  XIX   |   proposition is known to be true, revelation is needless: and it is hard
 78     IV,  XIX   |        conceive how there can be a revelation to any one of what he knows
 79     IV,  XIX   |           that what I take to be a revelation is certainly put into my
 80     IV,  XIX   |            they presume it to be a revelation from God? or else all their
 81     IV,  XIX   |            in this circle; It is a revelation, because they firmly believe
 82     IV,  XIX   |        believe it, because it is a revelation.~11. Enthusiasm fails of
 83     IV,  XIX   |           In all that is of divine revelation, there is need of no other
 84     IV,  XIX   |            vain suppose it to be a revelation. For they know it to be
 85     IV,  XIX   |            so, without the help of revelation. For thus, all the truths,
 86     IV,  XIX   |           be true, because it is a revelation from God, the reason is
 87     IV,  XIX   |           how they know it to be a revelation from God. If they say, by
 88     IV,  XIX   |         already, viz. that it is a revelation, because they strongly believe
 89     IV,  XIX   |            it is not received as a revelation, but upon the ordinary grounds
 90     IV,  XIX   |            be true because it is a revelation, and have no other reason
 91     IV,  XIX   |       other reason for its being a revelation, but because they are fully
 92     IV,  XIX   |            they believe it to be a revelation only because they strongly
 93     IV,  XIX   |        strongly believe it to be a revelation; which is a very unsafe
 94     IV,  XIX   |            proposition is a Divine Revelation.~12. Firmness of persuasion
 95     IV,  XIX   |           be judge) than they.~14. Revelation must be judged of by reason.
 96     IV,  XIX   |            examine whether it be a revelation from God or no: and if reason
 97     IV,  XIX   |             15. Belief no proof of revelation. If this internal light,
 98     IV,  XIX   |          of God, which is attested revelation, reason warrants it, and
 99     IV,  XIX   |            we cannot take it for a revelation, or so much as for true,
100     IV,  XIX   |            other mark that it is a revelation, besides our believing that
101     IV,  XIX   |           16. Criteria of a divine revelation. In what I have said I am
102     IV,  XIX   |       embraced is consonant to the revelation in the written word of God,
103     IV,  XIX   |     perhaps it be not an immediate revelation from God, extraordinarily
104     IV,  XIX   |            it is warranted by that revelation which he has given us of