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monstrates the Impossibility of Atheism; and by necessary Inference from undeniable Principles, the actual Existence of a God. Together with the perfection of the Creation. Of which, most of the principal Heads are these following, viz.
Sense, not Knowledge. Thoughts of what is not in sense, an evidence of things not sensible. God, not unconceivable. Certain, that Never Nothing. Eternity a Philosophick Attribute of the Deity. The sense of τὸ θεῖον φθονερόν. Atheism founded in distrust and ignorance of Causes. Atheists ignorant of the cause of themselves: of Motion: of the Mundane Regularity. Things made for Ends. Nature, Mechanical and Vital. Chance, not Artificial. God, not Άυτοθργῶν ἅπαντα. The Mechanical Theist confuted. Idea of God, not from amplification of Imperfect things, or other feigning power of the Soul. Atheism confuted by apparitions, Witches, and Demoniacks. By Miracles. How they confirm a Prophet. By Oracles. Scripture triumphing over Pagan Oracles. Sense, phantastical and relative. Mind, reaches absolute Truth. The Cartesian, and other demonstrations of a God, from his Idea. Intellection, not the Image of Sensibles. Eternal truths and Intelligibles. In what sense, Nothing out of Nothing. Atheists make more out of Nothing, than Theists. Matter, not necessarily existent. Arguments against an Incorporeal Deity, confuted. Extension and Entity, not the same. Sense and Imagination, not the Measures of things. Souls always united to some Body, the old Philosophick Gabala. The Souls Spirituous body (supposed) after Death. The Άυτοειδὲς, third, or Heavenly Body. Mystery of the Resurrection, a spiritual and heavenly Body. To the majority of Fathers, Demons, and Angels Bodied. Reasons for unextended Substance. A First Mover, demonstrated. Thoughts, not action of Objects. Scale of Entity, asserted. Grand Objection against the Substantiality of all Souls, answer'd. Divine Goodness asserted. Inclination of the Earths Axis, argueth Providence. Evils, from the necessity of Imperfect Beings. Providence in the Oeconomy of Humane affairs. Not parts of the World alone, but the whole to be consider'd. The Vastness of it. Future and past, with present. Providence, not laborious and distractious to the Deity. Atheists Queries, answer'd. Atheists Politicks, unravel'd. Founded in the Villanizing of Humane Nature, &c.
The whole Work aboundeth with variety of good Reading, nd Judicious Discourse thereupon.
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