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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36132	A discovery of theisme together with such philosophical and mathematical observations as are consonant thereunto : deliver'd in a more refin'd manner then hitherto written, against atheisme and prophaness / by a person of quality.	Person of quality.	1698 (1698)	Wing D1660; ESTC R16081	23,490	112

sad Accounts so notoriously known the Theist is more modest then to Insert his Recriminations And thus in Brief are here presented by way of Preface such Sentiments of the Theist as preparatively Conduce to the facilitating of the Readers Apprehension of the ensuing Work Which is chiefly design'd against the absur'd Impieties of Atheisme with a due Reflection on such that disregard in Soul the Miracles of the Almighty as so many Innumerable Blessings throughout the Vniverse convey'd for the benefit of Mankind To Conclude the Reader is desir'd to take Notice that there is nothing Intended in this Treatise whereby to Lessen in any kind the Excellencies of Christian Religion but rather an Acknowledgment of its Divine Perfections as may be evidently perceiv'd in the Close of the ensuing Book A DISCOVERY Of the most Refin'd NOTIONS and PRINCIPLES Of the THEIST As they Essentially Relate to that PERSWASION THE Religion of the Theist as the Word may be deriv'd from Greek Consists in the sole belief of one God with all other Attributes of miraculous Being Providence and Conduct that can be assign'd to Omnipotency In which general Article of Divine Belief the Theist fully concenters with the most Universal Religions of the World But in the motives to Divine Worship he considerably differs from many of them which may be thus explain'd The Theist derives his Adoration of a Deity from the Being and miraculous Order of the Universe in the Existency of the World above and below with whatsoever is contain'd therein which summ'd compleats the Proposition of God demonstrated by the wonders of his Works which he believes ought undeniably to oblige thē Holy reverence of the Soul as the most visible convictions of his Creed Or no other then so many Divine Proposals in the miraculous operations and consistency of the World sensibly apprehended by the admirable conduct of the Almighty If he beholds the miraculous Revolution above together with the rising and setting of the Sun to day he thinks it no less stupendious if he perceives his Glorious Ascent to morrow And thus he fits his belief to the Volume of Divine Faith comprehended in the Worlds universal Continuance and Being as so many Evidences of the Deity convey'd by Incomprehensible Causes and Effects In which submission of the Soul he cannot but seperate his Holy contemplation and reverence from other Credentials of Worship that are written or disperss'd by the Hand of Man as he that has an open assurance need not unclose a Book to search for more because a writing however credibly asserting the Truth of Miracles past which celebrate particular Worships cannot as he Judgeth be so present with his Understanding or his Immediate Conviction as what is perpetual to his Apprehension in the miraculous Constitution Preservation and Providential management of the Universal World with the innumerable Objects of Admiration contain'd in it that does as it were disclose to the Eye the bosome of Omnipotence in which the devout preception of Man may discern dateless Miracles no less Antient in Being then the total World because always evident in it Whereas contrarily in the Judgment of the Theist other Religious Perswasions want not only the like continual manifest Convictions but according to the known Date of their Records must acknowledge that there was for ought they can demonstratively alledge to the contrary innumerable Years that preceeded the Revelations they assert From whence may be concluded that there was unaccountable Revolutions of Time when they neither had Being or Belief And therefore no Objection against the Theist if he rejects Tenents that include a Modern Date or not so Infinitely uncomputable by Time as his own It being impossible to evidence any Conviction of the Soul more Antient than the World and the Miracles it contains Not but the Divine Power could have ordain'd if suitable to his Decree one or more subsequent Worlds as amply wonderful as this we behold there being no limitation to the Omnipotent if pleas'd to bestow any miraculous Method in order to our Sense and Conviction But then this must have been perpetually evident from the time it had Beginning as clearly as is discernable any other Object of Divine Admiration and Reverence within the compass of the Universe On which considerations the Theist conceives himself obliged to disent from divers miraculous Tenents deliver'd by the Pens of men because not genuinely discernable in the vast Volume of the World without any intermission of Wonders and Providence consonant to their Divine conveyance It being a Solescisme in his opinion that men should recede from the day light of Faith to search for Invisible Conviction And consequently Inferrs that since there are no apparent Miracles but what are contain'd in the Universe of Heaven and Earth he ought to prove from thence the devotion of his Faith On which account he amply receives the assurance of Divine demonstration by the Eye of his Intellect Leaving other Creeds to argue from transcriptions of spiritual Revelations their Systems of belief or from whence they severally Inferr as they rationally gather that the Holy Precepts of one or other are to be embrac'd by them Whereas the greatest part of religious Perswasion are rather the Effects of Custome and Education then visible Conviction of any faculty of the Humane Soul Insomuch that the Theist affirms that a Man born blind may be as Intelligibly perswaded of the Doctrine of Theisme together with the devotion annexed to it as if he had a plenary sight and prospect of all the Wonders within the Compass of the Universe It not being to be doubted that such a person tho without Eyes to discern might by his Reason or Sense of Feeling not only conclude that he lives but that he is also sustain'd by a providential Goodness and Power as certainly as he feels within or without out him the Effects of Heat or Cold as also nourish'd by Food neither of which could be produc'd or caus'd by himself And therefore must concede that he Subsists by the dispensation of an Existence more excellent then his own and consequently oblig'd to give thanks devoutly on his knees for the Blessings he receives tho without Eyes to behold the particulars of Heaven and Earth from whence they proceed On the contrary should this unseeing Man be requir'd to adhere to any religious Proposal that presented no other contexture to his Sense then a story told of suppernatural Deeds and Revelation which concenter'd with no Rational Proprietic of his Being and Nature He would doubtless Annex his belief to the Doctrine of Theisme with whatsoever by undeniable consequence from it might compleat his Devotion These discussions as being but previously Inserted in order to farther expand the Fonds on which the Theist erects his Tenents It will be necessary to consider these three Particulars The First As to the Being of the Vniverse The Second Tending to the Cause and Manner of its Productiony as also its wonderful Conduct Order