...enlightenment compromise of a rational and nationalist religion. Locke claimed, with some urgency, that "no Proposition can be received for Divine Revelation,...Assent due to all such, if it be contradictory to our clear intuitive Knowledge," but the impasse, explored further in his "On Enthusiasm" and The Reasonableness...

...his Essay that: "Even original revelation cannot be admitted against the clear evidence of reason.... no proposition can be received for divine revelation,...assent due to all such, if it be contradictory to our clear intuitive knowledge. . . . For, faith can never convince us of anything that contradicts...

...it right, can never be so great, as the evidence of our own intuitive knowledge ... .And therefore, no proposition can be received for divine revelation, or obtain the assent due to all such, it if be contradictory to our clear intuitive knowledge." (Locke [1689], 1982: 692.) As for indirect...

...knowledge, whereby we discern it impossible for the same body to be in two places at once. And therefore no proposition can be received for divine revelation,...assent due to all such, if it be contradictory to our clear intuitive knowledge. Because this would bo to subvert the principles and foundations of all...