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A28672 The arraignment and conviction of atheism, or, An exact and clear demonstration by natural arguments that there is a God presented to the view of all, but especially the learned / by Joshua Bonhome. Bonhome, Joshua. 1679 (1679) Wing B3593; ESTC R24212 68,915 170

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not distributively 2. How many ways a Thing may be related to or agree with another Distributively or Collectively 3. That Successive Things cannot be from all Eternity Collectively 4. That Old Men Young Men and Children Collectively or taken together cannot have been from all Eternity 5. That the Dead have not been from all Eternity 6. That all men Collectively having been begotten cannot have been from all Eternity That the right understanding and apprehension of the destinction of Athiests is a sufficient refutation of the same CHAP. III. 1. THE second Answer of Atheists viz. That as in the After-Eternity that is to say in the Future there will be no last or furthermost so in the Fore-Eternity that is is to say in time past there hath been no first or foremost 2. That Atheists compare unlike things and the disparity explained 3. That re-ascending towards the time past one may run through it and so 't is not Infinite 4. That the Succession of things cannot be Eternal and why CHAP. IV. 1. THE third Answer of Atheists concerning the Infinite Number 2. Three Arguments of Athiests whereby they strive and endeavour to prove that one Infinite is greater than another 3. That those men which have been in time past make up some number 4. That in whatsoever number of Men there is as much or more or less 5. The Refutation of the Athiests Argument That one Infinite is greater than another Materially and not Formally 6. That it is a Contradiction to grant or make one Infinite to be greater than the other 7. That the Answer of Atheists doth not at at all hurt or touch our choice and indissoluble Reason drawn from the distance of Men. 8. What the space is not and what it is proved 9. The Answer to the Atheists First Argument● drawn from the infiniteness of the Oriental and Occidental space 10. Another Answer to their Second Argument drawn from the infiniteness of the thoughts both of Men and Angels 11. Another to their third Argument drawn from the pretended infiniteness of Men and Lyons possible that is to say that God may produce and create CHAP. V. 1. THE Fourth Answer of Athiests saying That from all Eternity there was a Chaos 2. That the Heavens and the Elements did not by degrees dis-intangle and resolve themselves from all Eternity 3. That they did not remain a finite time to resolve or clear themselves 4. That they did not remain an infinite time to clear and resolve themselves 5. A Digression wherein the two first Verses of the first Chapter of Genesis are explained and shewed that there is no mention made of a Chaos and that they do not contain a Proposition of all those things God Created in Six dayes and that light was not the first Creature CHAP. VI. 1. THE Fifth Answer of Athiests saying That there hath been from all Eternity Matter without Form 2. The Proof That there hath not been from all Eternity a Matter without Form and that the Matter could not produce the Forms 3. That the Eternal Atomes by a casual concourse have not made and disposed the World 4. That the Forms cannot have been produced but by God CHAP. VII 1. THE Sixth Answer of Athiests saying That men have their Original and beginning from the Tritons and Sirens commonly called Mairmaids 2. The Refutation of this Answer CAHP. VIII 1. THE Seventh Answer of Atheists saying That men have been produced by or proceeded from the Eternal Earth or from all the Elements together 2. Reasons alledged or Evidence produced against the falshood of this Answer 3. That the Earth nor the other Elements cannot have been naturally disposed to produce Men. 4. Other Reasons proving That Men have not been produced by the Earth nor the other Elements CHAP. IX Other Reasons proving that there is a God 1. THE First Reason drawn from the Order of the Vniverse 2. The Second from the General Consent of all People and Nations whoever acknowledged a God-head 3. The Third from the fear of the Judgments of God because of Sin 4. The Fourth from the Existency of Devils 5. The Fifth is drawn from the First Mover and the First Cause 6. The Sixth from the Novelty of Histories 7. And the Seventh from the Consideration that the Sea hath not submerged the Earth CHAP. I. 1. That the World not being from all Eternity one must necessarily conclude there is a God that Created it 2. That the Sun hath not been from all Eternity 3. That the Earth hath not been from all Eternity 4. That the day hath not been from all Eternity 5. That neither Day nor Night have been from all Eternity 6. That the Moon hath not been from all Eternity 7. That the Sea hath not been from all Eternity 8. That Men have not been from all Eternity 9. The first Confirmation 10. The second Confirmation 11. The third Confirmation 12. That Alteration Generation and Corruption are not from all Eternity 13. That neither moveable Things nor Time have been from all Eternity 14. A general proof that the Bodies have not been from all Eternity nor consequently the World THe Knowledge of Causes by their Effects is the best and most certain part of Philosophy Fire is known by Burning Water by its Moistening and Cooling quality Men are known by Reasoning and Discoursing Lions by their Roaring and all other Things by their Operations Now if second Causes which for the most part may be apprehended by humane sense cannot be better known than by their Effects much more the first Cause dwelling in an inaccessible Light is to be known by his Works The Holy Apostle of Christ St. Paul teaches this very clearly in his Epistle to the Roman Chap. 1. v. 20. when he says That the invisible Things of God even his Eternal Power and God-head are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made Shewing thereby that Naturally by the Contemplation of the Creatures a man may attain to the Knowledge of the Creator and by the consideration of the glory of this beautiful Universe may be led and induced to the admiration of its Creator Following the steps of this Holy Doctor I will demonstrate by the Creation of the World the Existence of the God-head against those whom Debauchery ill Company and want of Learning hath so horribly corrupted that they dare publickly deny him in whom even they move and live and have their being I reason thus 1. If the World hath not been from all Eternity it follows it hath had a beginning and having not had that beginning of it self seeing nothing can produce it self it must needs be granted necessarily that another hath given it that beginning and consequently hath created it But the Creator of the Universe and God are one and the same thing That the World hath not been from all Eternity will appear in running through the chiefest parts of the same I will begin with the Sun the most glorious of all Soul-less