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An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

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    Culverwel’s best-known essay, An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature (1652), was intended as the introduction to a larger work in which he hoped to defend reason against its more extreme opponents and faith against rationalist reductionists. Reared in the strict spiritual climate of Calvinism,…

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