The Preface.

...He has granted the ability original: "conferred means" to maintain it. He has, therefore, granted humanity the ability to contemplate His wondrous works. While we must acknowledge that these abilities are sense and reason, we must also acknowledge that they are not sufficient in every situation. For our senses fail us in the knowledge of eternal things, as well as those things which are placed entirely out of sight or performed when we are not present. B The letter B likely marks a specific point in the author's logical progression. But where sense fails, reason fails also; for reason is nothing more than a universal knowledge of things gathered from particular acts of sense—the understanding that this or that exists, or is done, in one way or another.

Since, therefore, both sense and reason very often fail us, shall we believe that the most gracious Father of Lights A biblical title for God from James 1:17, referring to Him as the source of all truth and enlightenment. would not supply this deficiency in some other way? His most generous and in every respect proven bounty original: "approved bounty" toward us will not allow us to suspect that. But if God...