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Date: 1794
"It [Christianity] has put the whole orbit of reason into shade."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"Reason is God's candle in man. But, as a candle must first be lighted, ere it will enlighten; so reason must be illuminated by divine grace, ere it can savingly discern spiritual things."
preview | full record— Toplady, Augustus (1740-1771)
Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"But this obscurity sometimes proceeds from a mixture of light and darkness in the author's mind; from a partial ray which strikes upon an angle, instead of spreading itself over the surface of an object."
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
