“The best reasoner in the world,” Edwards asserts, “endeavouring to find out the causes of things, by the things themselves, might be led into the grossest errors and contradictions, and find himself, at the end, in extreme want of an instructor.” Reason, uninstructed by revelation, affords not a single historical example of any person or people that “emerged from atheism or idolatry, into the knowledge or adoration of the one true God” (Works, 2:476).
