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cause_n	effect_n	natural_a	supernatural_a	1,915	5	10.5176	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07683	A demonstration of God in his workes Against all such as eyther in word or life deny there is a God. By George More Esquire.	More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632.; More, George, Esquire, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 18071.5; ESTC S112856	95,106	174

they haue for the rising and falling of their sap It feeleth a VVinter and a Sommer a spring and a fall it is also furnished with those sences which euery sensible thing hath of which some others want sight some hearing some one sence some an other and yet perfect in their kinde that not wanting any if nature be not wanting vnto it And as in the outward fashion and disposition of his flesh so in the inward motions and dispositions growing from the same he is to him selfe vnlike Man vnlike to him self and like to all creatures in their affection and like to all the rest besides that are moued or affected in any sort Of diuers creatures the motions are diuers and as by kind they are seuered so are they seuerally affected Serpents are wilie Doues simple Lyons are bold Deare fearefull VVoolfes are cruell Sheepe gentle Asses are dull Horses quicke Cammels slow Roes swift and not one but all are most of all of the same kinde a like VVhereas of men one is simple an other subtill one fearefull an other hardy one is gentle an other cruell one quicke an other dull one swift Difference betweene men Man differeth from him selfe an other slow such difference there is betweene one man and an other Yea oftentimes such odds there is betweene a man and him selfe as not the same but an other then him selfe he seemeth to be for he is both simple and subtill both gentle and cruell both hardy and fearefull both dull and quicke both swift and slow subtill to deceaue an other and simple to auoide his owne danger cruell where he hateth and gentle to those he loueth hardy against a naked faynt harted enemie and fearefull against an armed resolued aduersarie swift to reuenge and slow to forgiue dull in learning the best things and quicke in apprehending the worst So is he most vnlike to him selfe and like affected to all the rest yea sondry more affections he hath then all the rest besides For what beast is iealous or malitious what giuen to reuenge or mooued with compassion which doth hope or dispaire which counterfaite or dissemble The Leopard is not so changeable in the spots of his skinne as man is variable in the affections of his minde Innumerable are his fancies vnspeakable his conceits infinite his deuises and desires The daily new fashions of attires the sondry formes of sumptuous buildings the rare inuentions of all kinds of arts faculties and misteries are euident proofes that the humours of mens minds are euer flowing and like the riuer Nylus Semper aliquid apportant noui Bring euer forth some new thing or other VVherein I must confesse he goeth beyond all creatures by reason of reason Reason following affection giueth strēgth there-vnto wherewith alone he is indued VVhich being captiuated by the strength of affection followeth the sway and altereth the course thereof adding force incredible there-vnto But by that which hath beene sayed euident it is that of all worldly things the lineaments are drawne in the very body and bodily affections of men be they neuer so many in number and so diuers in nature his outward proportion and inward disposition beeing infinite in varietie VVhich notwithstanding is not a more faire picrure of the world The soule of man the liuely image of God then his soule is a liuely image of God the same dwelling in that earthly tabernacle as God sitteth in his heauenly throne It is simple without mixture and spirituall without bodily substance it mooueth and is not mooued it neuer resteth and is euerlasting it is one in nature and deuided in power and being in one and the same place at once and in the same time it runneth through all the places of the earth it remembreth things past perceaueth things present and beholdeth things to come it seeth all and of nothing is seene againe rule also it beareth and cannot be ouer-ruled in thought or iudgment ioy or greefe All which are properties belonging to the nature of God and not found in any naturall thing but onely in the soule of man God said to be an immortall man and man a mortall God which from God was breathed into him VVherefore for the true resemblance betweene them the heauenly God hath beene sayed to be an immortall man and an earthly man a mortall God Caelius Rhodi ex Mereurio man being taken in respect of his diuine soule for a God on earth and God esteemed in regard of that humaine image to be a man in heauen Such was the conceit of a mortall man who perceauing that diuine part of him selfe farre to excell and greatly to differ from his earthly nature could not but thinke that there was a deity of like quality The being of God proued by the being of the soule so like vnto him that was Authour thereof So is the being of God fully prooued in being so truly resembled by that which such a creature could neuer haue beene had it not by such a Creator beene caused to be as is a God spirituall and immortall that euer was and euer shall be For impossible it were that a bodily substance should beget a spirituall essence and that from mortall seede an immortall soule should spring Remooue the opinion of God whose works are as well aboue the compasse as within the course of nature The cause by the effects discouered and it cannot be but that affinitie there must be between the spring and the streame the seede and the fruite VVherfore what could not be made by naturall meanes whose bounds are certaine must be thought to haue been created by a power supernaturall whose limits are vnknowne which being discouered in effects to be wonderfull is to be deemed a cause admirable in all heigth of reuerence rather to be esteemed then either to be denied or doubted of Sith then the image of God is lodged within the body of man and continually doth present it selfe to the view of reason no lesse then the face lyeth open of the eye to be seene as impossible it may seeme that a man should think that there is no God whose picture within him selfe the eye of his mind doth still behold as it is incredible that seeing his owne face in a glasse he should not iudge it to be the face of him selfe For more certaine is the sight of reason being sound and lesse subiect to deceite then is the iudgement of the outward sence which sondry wayes by outward meanes may be deluded But if any be so blinded with the mist of ignorance that by looking into his owne nature he cannot discerne that image of God yet turning from him selfe and casting his eyes vpon the creatures of the world if any thing he can thinke he cannot but think that there is a God For what can be thought to mooue heauen but that which made it VVhat to open and shut the gates thereof one whereat the Sunne goeth forth in the morning

as in all things sufficiently so most assuredly touching God appereth to be true The foole seeth not that there is a God and sayeth in his hart there is none for his eyes are not in his head and his hart is at his left hand wherefore it is no meruaile that he is blind and consider nothing aright But with men of reason contrariwise it is they walke not in darknes nor stumble at noone dayes to them things seeme as they are and God aboue all things is manifest vnto them For heauen and earth yeeld testimony of his diuine nature and magnifie his infinite power yea all the creatures of the world are liuely witnesses be they dead or lyuing and euident proofes though they lye hidden and cannot be seene that a God there is who hath made them and doth rule them according to his will So as man hauing sence and reason cannot be ignorant or doubtfull thereof when by sence he may perceaue and by reason consider what those creatures are which so notably set forth the being of their Creator Opening his eyes toward heauen aboue or to the earth beneath he doth behold such variety such excellencie of worke so much beyond his skill to iudge of so farre aboue his power to reach vnto that not onely his minde is mooued to a sodaine admiration of that he seeth but his hart is touched with a solemne reuerence of that whatsoeuer is Author thereof though what it is he doth not conceaue For reason Reason leadeth to the knowledge of God his guide by nature leadeth him to think that strange and notable effects cannot proceed but from some rare or worthy cause and that although the cause in the effects be resembled yet are the effects by the cause excelled beeing that which from it selfe giueth being to another but more to it selfe reserueth then on the other it bestoweth VVherby it cometh to passe that looking onely vpon the frame of heauen and face of the earth beholding the great beauty of them both th' one being adorned with starres of sundry formes and bignes the other set with trees and deckt with flowers of diuers colours and proportions he cannot but thinke that frame and that face of so exceeding beauty to haue beene made and deuised by some skill of excellency where-vnto of duty reuerence doth belong VVhich are things so manifest and apparant as by men of common reason they are seene and perceaued But who so with a sharpe eye doth enter into the world and vvith sound iudgement examine the parts thereof he easily doth finde that the whole and euery parcell of the same is like a glasse of Christall wherein the might and maiestie of God doth shine in such sort as that the eyes and minds of all be they not starke blind and voide of vnderstanding are striked and pierced therewith so that they are enforced to see whom to acknowledge and they cannot but acknowledge God whom their eyes doo behold to be the maker and ruler of heauen and of earth and of all things therein contayned By the swift constant and continuall motion of heauen by the course of the starres all obseruing order though thousands in number by the due succession of day and night the true patterne of life and death by the seasons of the yeare still fading and neuer fayling to returne what can be thought but that there is a moouer and a ruler of being eternall and of wisedome infinite which first turned round the wheele placed the lights distinguished the times and hath caused them all so long in such order to continue But let vs examine a part the sundry parts of the great and little world whom God that Lord of all vseth as instruments and imployeth as officers to execute his will and to shew his power and we shall see that with one voyce they witnes all and all agree in one that they had a maker and haue a Maister by whose power at the first they were and at whose commaundement continually they are The throne and footestoole of this great Lord is heauen and earth which are the roofe and foundation of the whole world of which th' one is of substance thinne and pure and the other thicke and corrupt the one light the other darke the one still in motion the other euer at rest VVherefore being most contrarily disposed impossible it is that eyther of the other should be caused so as in the contrariety of their nature they acknowledge they had a Creatour who at the first made them to be such as neither could haue being by the others helpe Betweene them to fill and take vp The Elements the ministers of God the heigth and the depth the length and the breadth of the whole fire reaching heauen water touching earth and ayre possessing the midle roome are placed and ioyned to and with them both as vniuersall Ministers of that mighty generall But what are their natures Most repugnant The repugnancie of their nature prooueth there is a God and vtterly disagreeing fire hote and dry water moyst and cold ayre hot and moyst earth cold and dry more apt to destroy then able to make or preserue one another And why are they such To shew that they are not of them selues and that all things of them should consist For all naturall bodies whatsoeuer receaue constitution from them as they their power from the iustnes of their temperature which being vnable of them selues to make by reason of their contrary and disagreeing qualities they craue an vmpier not onely of fulnes to supply their weaknes and of indifferencie to ioyne them with equallity but of aucthority absolute to commaund their seruice and of wisedome infinite to direct their course which euer tending to the worlds good and neuer fayling to the worlds end excludeth chaunce and prooueth choyse as well in their placing as in their ordering and that by him to haue beene made which could doo all and would doo best Consider how they are placed The power and wisedome of God in placing ordering the Elements and how ordered and both will appeare to be so as therein the power and wisedome of God doth so appeare as wonderfull it is to consider The fire being full of motion cleare and pure as best agreeing with heauen which euer mooueth with the cleare substance thereof and purity of the bodies therein is set next ther-vnto whether it may seeme easily to haue beene carried being light of nature and giuen to ascend but howe strange is it that there against nature it should be helde within a sphere and not suffered to mount The earth massie heauy and full of drosse was fittest to be at rest VVherefore it was layed lowest and from heauen that resteth neuer remoued farthest although it cannot but presse downward by reason of waight yet can it not fall down from one appoynted place Pondere terra suo subsedit Ouid. fast 3 where it hangeth and vpholdeth it selfe in

canst think of the best for thee to be patient to obey the will of thy God and to attend his pleasure Surely what soeuer thou art if thou be the man thou shouldest be thou hast no cause at the prosperity of others to repine but at thine owne happines great reason to reioyce FINIS Feb. 1596. Faults escaped THE first number noteth the page the second the line r fignifieth reade a signifieth adde Page 4 line 25 r thy before temples page 14 line 26 rescindendum pa. 18 li. 28 make a comma after common sence pa 26 l. 21 to before be pa. 30. l. 28 before an ill r. after a worme p. 50 l. 29. r. apportant p. 51 li 19 a comma after place p. 60. l. 14 a comma after not p. 61 li. 9 for end r and p. 61 l. 24 r striues pa. 62 l 16 r tunes p. 72. l. 16 to before be p. 40 l. 16 a not before ouerfloweth p. 74 l. 3 and after incouragement p. 75 l. 14 he before was p. 76 l. 30 leaue out owne p. 81 l. 28 for it r yet p 83 l. 28 r honestate 16 l 29 r cursu p. 91 l 14 Goddesse 16 l 17 r the for that p 94 l 13 vidimus p 95 l 13 r. with before vnderstanding p 98 l 7 r to before resolute p 100 l 23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 110 l 8 r Sharezer p 98 l r inuade p 101 l 1 then p 129 l 4 r superbia 16 l 6 r superbos a vltor 132 l 30 r condemned for commended p 133 l 14 r for monthes mouthes 16 l 18 mouthes p 136 l 17 r cantu p 137 l 10 r crescentis p 144 l r what for which p 146 l 29 r Nicoreon p 148 l 6 for comely r ioyntly p 148 l 15 for fugiunt r fuigunt Quotations in the margent eyther wanting or false printed Page 14. Ouid meta 1. pa. 16 Iosua 19 1 Iosu 13 p 17 Prouerb 28 Isai 3 pa 30 r Samuel 2 ch 24 pa 33 r Psal 5 6 32 pa 78 for Ge 40 r Genesis 41 pa 80 1 Sam. 7 pa 80. 1 Chro. chap 32 pa 90 Hero 7 16 Q Curtius 8 p 93 Ho Iliad 5 p 101 2 Chro. chap. 22 p 119 li 30 2 Chro chap 24 p 120 for Acts 13 r Acts 12 pa 134 5 de leg● p 147. Tib 2 p 150 Psal 73. A Table of the speciall things contayned in the former Treatises A. ABsolon and Ahittophell take counsell against Dauid but preuailed not and why Page 110. Adam the first earthly man so called of the Hebrewes Page 31. Adam by the breath of life made aliue in soule Page 32. All the children but not all lyke heires of Adam Page 69. Affections ouer-commed the children of God Page 108 Agamemnon watched while the Graecians slept Page 7. Beholding the destruction of Troy he considered his owne estate 128. Agesilaus his loue to enrich his friends Page 134. A hab punished in his posterity 145 Alexander preferred Abdolminus a base man and why Alexander his pride and blindnes 92 93. Stirred with anger he killed his friend Page 107. Alcibiades tossed with hope to and fro 107. Haman a wicked man exalted 125. Anaxagoras thought snowe to be blacke 25. Anaxarchus his parents 146. Antiquity hath authority in examples 94. Anthony his death 136. Anthropos whereof deriued 26. Apollo why so called 63. Archimedes his earnest contemplation and death taken for a dead man being aliue 27. Arts banished from Athens and harboured in England 4. Athenians commended thankfulnes but were vnthankfull and their comfort beeing threatned by Xerxes Page 100. Athiests who are to be thought 20. B. BAasha punished in his posterity Page 145. Babell her Tower a monument of mans vanity and Gods omnipotencie Page 77. Barbarians neuer Athiests 25. The body the graue of the soule 56 C. CAlligula offered sacrifice to Enuie 140. his pride and end 148. Carneades liuing sayed to be dead Page 27. Carthage enuious of Rome Caesar blowne into England with the wind of glory 12. His proude minde and miserable ende 89. Cambises his fall 87. The cause more excellent then the effects 37. The cause by the effects discouered 52. Charles the fifth his expedition to Argiers and ill successe 95. Chrisogonus 135. Cicero his weake minde in aduersitie E. Cleander rich and proud 137. Clodius his death 136. Cōmon wealths subiect to change Page 10. By what meanes they florish 109. Contention of the Gods 65. Counsellours faythfull chiefe instruments of the Kings safety 112. Coriolanus through disgrace an enemie 153. Creatures subiect to the will of the Creator 15. Diuersitie of creatures frō whence Page 41. Their great likenes 48. Craesus his fall 86. Cyrus his soyle 87. Cymmerians see not the sunne 24. D. DArius his ouerthrow 88. Dauid not suffered to smite Saule 117. His feete ready to slip 150. Day the longest in the yeare 16. Delay bringeth benefit 150. Diogenes his care not to be idle E. His opinion of a multitude 28. Dionisius killed with sodaine ioy Page 107. Dionisius of Sicilie his greatnes and fall 141. Disgrace should not driue men from their duty 153. Diuinity the Lady Science 4. E. EHud killeth Eglon by the will of God 117. Elements the ministers of God 38. Elements how placed and ordered 40. Their transmutation 41. They followe and forsake theyr course 43. Their strength and working 42. By Nature strong 2. England preserued from the Spaniards 3. Strong in her people 3. Her walls of wood 2. Strong in the counsell of wise men 3. Chiefely preserued by the life of the Q. 4. Her present estate 13. Her security 15. Like Rome 7. Enoch signifieth true man 31. Enuie her definition 138. The daughter of Pride 137. Shee looketh vpward 137. Shee neuer sleepeth 138. Her punishment Epaminondas his-contempt of rithes 132. Epicurus his opinion of the praeconceipt of God 19. Hee first troad religion vnder his foote 20. F. FOrtune 122. 123. 124. The foole hath sayed in his hart there is no God 25. G. GOD how known by Nature 21. His eternall purpose of iustice and mercy 23. His two Bookes published to the world 23. His works open to all 23. His power and wisedome An immortall man 51. Why so called 54. Resembled by the Sunne and the soule 55. Expressed by three names 57. Seene in the glasse of Nature 60. Without the cōpasse of Nature 60. How to define what he is 60. Onely and merely one 60. Euerlasting and eternall 60. His sundry names shewing hee is but one 66. Euery where seene 68. His power vpon the greatest 73. 84 His power in creating and punishing Adam 74. In preseruing Noah and drowning the world 76. In throwing downe Monarchies 90. 91. In the defence of England God in goodnes most like to him selfe 103. His goodnes 103 104. Hee worketh continually for the good of man 105. Good to all but in greater measure to some 106. He punisheth the good and fauoureth the wicked and is both iust and