Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	effect_n	natural_a	produce_v	3,640	5	8.1636	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42106	An idea of a phytological history propounded together with a continuation of the anatomy of vegetables, particularly prosecuted upon roots : and an account of the vegetation of roots grounded chiefly thereupon / by Nehemiah Grew ...	Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712.	1673 (1673)	Wing G1951; ESTC R37408	75,772	228

and no Physical Proposition grounded upon the Constancy and certainty of things could have any foundation He therefore that philosophiseth and denieth God playeth a childish game Wherefore Nature and the Causes and Reasons of things duly contemplated naturally lead us unto God and is one way of securing our veneration of Him giving us not only a general demonstration of his Being but a particular one of most of the several Qualifications thereof For all Goodness Righteousnes● Proportion Order Truth or whatever else is excellent and amiable in the Creatures it is the demonstration of the like in God for it is impossible that God should ever make any thing not like himself in some degree or other these things and the very Notion which we have of them are Conceptions issuing from the Womb of the Divine Nature By the same means we have a greater assurance of the excellency of his Sacred Word that he who hath done all things so transcendently well must needs speak as well as he hath done That He who in so admirable a manner hath made man cannot but know best what his true Principles and Faculties are and what Actions are most agreeable thereunto and that having adorned him with such beauteous and lovely ones it is impossible he should ever put him upon the exercise of those Faculties in any way deform●d and unlovely That he should do all things so well himself and yet require his Creatures to do otherwise is unconceivable And as we may come hereby to rectifie our apprehensions of his Laws so also of his Mysteries For there are many things of the manner of whose existence we have no certain knowledge yet of their existence we are as sure as our senses can make us but we may as well deny what God hath made To be as what he hath spoken To be true ●ecause we understand not how And the knowledge of Things being gradually attained we have occasion to reflect That some things we can now well conceive which we once thought unintelligible I know therefore what I understand not but I know not what is unintelligible what I know not now I may hereafter or if not I another or if no man or other Creature it is sufficient that God fully understandeth himself It is not therefore the knowledge of Nature but the wanton phansies of mens minds that dispose them either to forget God or to think unduly of him Nor have we reason to fear going too far in the Study of Nature more than the entring into it because the higher we rise in the true knowledge and due contemplation of This the nearer we come to the Divine Author hereof Or to think that there is any contradiction when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature which Religion and the Sacred Scriptures teach us to be done by God no more than to say that the Ballance of a Watch is moved by the next Wheel is to deny that Wheel and the rest to be moved by the Spring or that both the Spring and all the other parts are caused to move together by the Maker of them So God may be truly the Cause of This effect although a thousand other Causes should be supposed to intervene for all Nature is as one great Engine made by and held in his hand And as it is the Watch makers Art that the Hand moves regularly from hour to hour although he put not his singer still to it so is it the demonstration of Divine Wisdom that the Parts of Nature are so harmoniously contrived and set together as to conspire to all kind of natural motions and effects without the extraordinary-immediate influence of the Author of it Therefore as the Original Being of all things is the most proper demonstration of Gods Power so are the successive Generations and Operations of Things the most proper demonstration of his Wisdom For if we should suppose God did now make or do any thing by any thing then no Effect would be produced by a natural Cause and consequently He would still be upon the Work of Creation which yet Sacred Scripture assureth us he resteth from and we might expect the formation of a Child in an Egg as well as in a Womb or of a Chicken out of a Stone as an Egg For Infinite Power maketh no difference in the things it useth But in that these things are not only made but so made as to produce their natural effects here is the sensible and illustrious evidence of his Wisdom and the more complicated and vastly numerous we allow the natural Causes of things to be the more duly we conceive of that Wisdom which thus disposeth of them all to those their Effects As the Wisdom of the King is not seen by his in●erposing himself in every Case but in the con●rivance of his Laws and consti●ution of his Ministers in such sort that it shall be as effectually determined of as if he did so indeed Thus all things are as Ministers in the hands of God conspiring together a thousand ways towards a thousand effects and ends at one time and that with the same certainty as if he did prepose that omnipotent Fiat which he used at the Creation of the World to every one of them This Vniversal Monarchy as it is eminently visible in all other particular Oeconomies so is it no less in that of Vegetables Infinite occurrences and secret Intrigues 't is made up of of which we cannot skill but by the help of manifold Means and those I suppose such as I have lately propounded As yet I have prosecuted only one of them scil Anatomy and that not throughly neither So far therefore as Observations already made will conduct us I shall endeavour to go And if for the better clearing of the way I have intermixed some Conjectures I think they are not meerly such but for which I have some grounds and which the Series of the following Discourse may be some proof of Let us say then that the Root of a Plant being lodged in some Soil for its more convenient growth 't is necessary the Soil should be duly prepared thereunto Th● Rain therefore falling and soaking into it somewhat diluteth the dissoluble Principles therein contained and renders them more easily communicable to the Root being as a Menstruum which extracteth those Principles from the other greater and useless part of the Soil And the warm Sun joyned with the mollifying Rain by both as it were a Digestion of the Soil or a g●ntile Fermentation amongst its several parts will follow whereby the dissoluble parts therein will rot and mellow that is those Principles which as yet remained more fixed will now be further resolved and unlocked and more copiously and equally spread themselves through the body of the Soil These Principles being with the growth of Plants continually exhausted and needing a repair the successions therefore of wet wind and other weather beat down and rot the Leaves and other parts of Plants