The strength and weakness of human reason: or, the important question about the sufficiency of reason to conduct mankind to religion and future happiness, argued between an inquiring Deist and a Christian divine: and the debate compromis'd and determin'd to the satisfaction of both
A 1731 London theological treatise by Isaac Watts, published by J. Pemberton, arguing the power of human reason against Deism for a general readership of divines and inquirers. The three pictures are printed ornaments, not illustrations: a scrolled cartouche with foliage and a central rosette, a symmetrical shield with cherubs, a mask and a fleur-like pendant, and a long acanthus-scroll border strip. A designer could take from them the dense baroque scrollwork, symmetrical cartouche layouts and cherub motifs of early eighteenth-century printing.
