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HISTORY

OF

RATIONALISM

EMBRACING

A SURVEY OF THE PRESENT STATE OF PROTESTANT
THEOLOGY.


BY JOHN F. HURST, D. D.


With Appendix of Literature.


THIRD EDITION, REVISED.


New York:
PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER,
200 MULBERRY-STREET.
1867.


Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.




     The Rationalists are like the spiders, they spin all out of
     their own bowels. But give me a philosopher who, like the bee,
     hath a middle faculty, gathering from abr