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A51828	Two discourses the first, shewing how the chief criterions of philosophical truth, invented by speculative men, more eminently serve divine revelation, than either philosophy or natural religion. The second, manifesting how all the foundations of the intellectual world, viz. reason, morality, civil government, and religion, have been undermin'd by popish doctrine and policies. By Tho. Mannyngham, M.A fellow of New Colledge in Oxford, and Rector of East-Tysted in Hant-Shire.	Manningham, Thomas, 1651?-1722.	1681 (1681)	Wing M510; ESTC R216239	26,124	193

a lower Commerce of perception Such immediate displays of Divinity infinitely transcend the Analogy of thy Order and the immoderate Glory of such a Revelation would but absorb thy Soul and crack its Hypostasis Thou canst not see God and live But still the Natural Philosophy in the Scripture can never be pardoned either that or De Cartes must be false However Men may flatter themselves that they have Orbs and Circumvolutions of Souls Concentric to the Universe yet we may very rationally believe that an exact Knowledge of Nature was never designed Man on this side of Heaven it may possibly be reserved for our Illuminated Faculties and be an accessary of our Glorification The Essences of things can be the Object of no other than a Divine Understanding and he that made the World can only have a perfect Knowledge of it What if Divine Providence as a peculiar priviledge granted to Adam and Solomon a considerable acquaintance with Nature yet event hath shewn that there was a kind of Tetragrammaton in it that it was thought a thing too Sacred to be communicated to Posterity so that what they enjoyed was no Natural Acquisition but a Gracious Gift not so much Science as Vision Though Cartesius in his account of Meteors has endeavoured with Epicurus to exclude the Deity from the middle Region and to deliver us up to the Providence of an Atmosphere yet God Almighty thought fit to manifest his Omnipotence to Job from that place rather than from the Heaven of Heavens What is the end we propose of our enquiries into Nature Is it to serve and gratify our Curiosity That we will not own Is it to plume our Pride That we dare not own Then it can be no other than to settle in us a due reverence and acknowledgment of the Wisdom Power and Goodness of God Now all this is Pathetically secured to us in Scripture since it may very effectually be obtain'd by an humble Meditation on the Existences of things their more open Qualities and their obvious Relations The consideration of the substantial parts and uses of sensible Nature the very Mode and Method of the Scripture's Philosophy has we know in a meer Heathens Breast kindled Admiration into an Hymn But I never yet read of any Anthems composed from the Contemplation of Atoms Who can Spell the Divine Wisdom Power and Goodness out of the Principles of Des Cartes where he gives us the Origen of all things in a Puppet-play interprets all the works of God according to the bruit Laws of Mechanism and allows no other Operations in Vital Nature then what he finds parallell'd in German Clockwork Whereas who can without holy Affections peruse the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Majesty of Mose's account 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where he describes the Original Fiat in a Phrase almost commensurate to the Dignity of the Creation that some Rabbins have thought his very Style as well as Sense to have been inspir'd They are our too eager disquisitions after the Internal Verities of things that have led the Witty World into so large a Field of Scepticism Men must be pressing and breaking into the Recesses of Nature as that Conqueror heretofore into the Sanctum Sanctorum then mistake the thing return dissatisfied cry all is Pageantry and that we worship Clouds I had rather read the Astonishments of Job when God poses him through the whole Creation then all the bold explications of Men and Daemons I had rather consider the Rain-bow as the Reflection of God's Mercy then the Sun 's Light and when I call to mind that Thunder throughout the Scriptures is stiled his Mighty Voice I 'm satisfi'd at what I Tremble and though this may debase my Philosophy yet it heightens my Divinty If any man is not yet satisfied what is Truth let him but seriously reflect on his Death-Bed and the Day of Judgement and then I 'm perswaded hee 'l need no Answer When the Gayety of Fancy forsakes him and the Prosperity of Invention gives no relish when his Passions and Appetites grow languid from the impotence of Blood and his Brain becomes too weak for the Image of the World then will he call for a Portion of Scripture to ease his Conscience a drop from the Fountain of Living Water to cool his tongue Then set him on the highest Mountain of Metaphysics and from thence give him the Ravishing Prospect of all the Kingdoms of Humane Learning all the Glorys of Philosophy yet he will not Worship not Idolize one glittering Notion not part with one single Text for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When the last Fire shall make Nature confess it self to be no God the Sun and Moon be darkned the Elements and Stars melt with fervent heat and run together into one great Vortex of Confusion and when the whole Volumn of the Creation shall be shrieveled up like a Scroll of Parchment then shall the Holy Bible be opened its everlasting Truths unfolded and though Heaven and Earth pass away yet not one Iota of that shall perish Go now and neglect Heaven the receptacle of Angels and departed Souls for the visible Heaven of Orbs and Planets and lose the Beatific Vision for that through a Tube Go thou that hungerest after Humane Learning go make a vast Progress in specious Errors and industriously acquire to thy self a deep-read Confusion of thought lose all good Sense by a multiplicity of Languages grow gray under a Mathematical Problem and make thy Grave in the Dust of Geometry let the reconciliation of the Chaldean Chronology and the Egyptian Dinasties swallow up thy moments of Salvation let the uncertainties of Prosane Authors attend thee on thy Death-Bed and with their restless Tumult add a Phrensie to thy Feaver then let thy Learned Ashes be kept in Urns and thy great Name be read in Annals Yet for all this know O man that Plato gave thee thy Pompous Thoughts Aristotle thy Sagacity in Invention and Euclid thy Mighty Demonstrations In a word that Heathens gave thee all thy Reason and the Curse of Babel thy Languages to express it Go therefore rather and Captivate all thy Thoughts to the positions of Faith thy whole Heart to the embracement of the Gospel and let the frequent Meditation on Sin Death and Judgment macerate thy bold Naturals into an humble contrition of understanding POPERY One great Cause of ATHEISM OMnis Haeresis cum ad Atheismum delapsa est per sapientem Prophetam quales in Italiâ fuêrunt Thomas Dominicus Scotus alii in Veritatis viam reducitur Tho. Campanelle De Monarchiâ Hispan Cap. 30. The foundations of the Intellectual World are these four 1. Reason 2. Morality 3. Civil Government 4. Religion And that each of these Pillars is remov'd undermin'd or out of course either thro' the sly Machinations or open assaults of our implacable enemies the Papists who either act themselves with declared Malignity or put pernitious Engines into other mens hands a little