Antedating of "Rationalism"

[Fred Shapiro]

rationalism (OED 1800)

1776 Boston, Thomas. Memoirs of the life, time, and writings, of the
reverend and learned Thomas Boston, A.M. sometime minister at Simprin 380
(Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  The gospel of Christ is by this
time, with many, especially of the younger sort of divines, exchanged for
rationalism.

Fred Shapiro


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