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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12351	Gods arrovve against atheists. By Henrie Smith	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1593 (1593)	STC 22666; ESTC S119953	81,568	135

GODS Arrovve against Atheists By Henrie Smith Printed at London by Iohn Danter and are to be sold by William Barley at his shop in Gratious-streete ouer against Leaden-Hall 1593. To the Right Worshipfull Vertuous and Godly Ladie Katherine Hayward VVife to Syr Rowland Hayward the graue Father and Auntient Alderman of the famous Citie of London Iohn Danter wisheth Health with increase of Authoritie THe Gardner right vertuous Godly Ladye Walking in the prime of Summer in a fragrant odoriferous Garden where growes all sortes of sweete Flowers commonly gathereth the pleasants Rose to gratifie his Ma●●er So I right Worshipfull hauing come to my hand many excellent workes to be published abroad the worlde haue from amongst them all chosen this Booke Entituled Gods Arrowe against Atheists as the purest Rose for your Ladyship to delight in hoping vpon this fauour that you will be the sweet Patronesse of this my poore good will and to shadow it vnder the winges of your clemencie from the bitter stormes of al Hereticall Schismaticks In so doing my minde will bee fully satisfied that long hath waited the time to shew my bounden dutie to the Graue Fathers and ●untient Gouernours of this famous Ci●ie of London but especially to the right wor●hipfull Sir Rowland Hayward your reuerent Husband who thrice hath bin Lieftenant vnder her Maiestie and borne the chiefest office in this Citie to the preseruation of Londons Charter And you sweet Lad●●is renowmed wife whose vertuous minde hath euer yet bin willing to preferre Schollers to the setting forth of Gods truth and to beautyfie the true endeuours of vs Citizens I therfore stil expecting your wonted fauorable liking that you wil spend away some part of winters weary nights Summers plesant Euenings in perusing ouer this worthy booke made by that famous learned man Master Henrie Smith before he departed this life wherein is discoursed the vaine Heresies of sundry religions now vsed in England to the great hurt of this flowrishing Common wealth In so doing I haue my desire wishing you the increase of all dignitie in this world and in the world to come euerlasting happines Amen ●●urs in all Humble and dutifull seruice to his poore power Iohn Danter Printer ❧ A Table of such Chapters as are handled in this Booke following IN the first Chapter is contained the absurditie of Atheisme Irreligion with the confutation thereof In the second and third Chapters the Christian Religion is approoued to be the only true Religion against the Gentiles and all the Infidels in the world In the fourth Chapter the Religion of Mahomet is confuted In the fift Chapter the Church of Rome is disproued to be the true Church of God In the sixth Chapter the Brownists and Barrowists with their detestable Schismes are confuted and our Church approoued to be the only true Church of God Gods Arrovve Against Atheisme and Irreligion The first Chapter ATheisme and Irreligion was euer od●ous euen amonge the Heathen themselues insomuch as that Protagoras for that he doubted whether there were any God or no was by the Athenians vanished out of their Country Diagoras was such a notorious Infidell that he helde there was no God him and all such like Atheists the very Heathens haue abhorred and detested as being more like rude beastes than reasonable men For Cicero the Heathen Philosopher doth condemne them all and further saith that there was neuer any Nation so sauadge or people so barbarous but alwaies confessed there was a God whereunto they were led euen by the light of Nature and naturall instinct For the very same is confirmed by the common vse of all Heathens in lifting vp their eyes and handes to heauen in any sodaine distresse that commeth vpon them Yea by experience of all ages it hath beene prooued that Atheists themselues that is such as in their health and prosperitie for more libertie of sinning would striue against the being of a God when they came to die or fall into any great miserie they of all other would shew themselues most fearefull of this God as Seneca himselfe declareth Insomuch as Zeno the Philosopher was woont to say that it see●ned to him a more substantiall proofe of this matter to heare an Atheist at his dying day preach God when he asked God all the world forgiuenes then to heare all the Philosophers in the worlde dispute the point For that at this instant of death and miserie it is like that such doe speake in earnest and sobrietie of spirite who before in the wantonnes impugned God It is remembred of Caius Caligula that wicked and incestuous Emperour that he was a notable scorner and contemner of God made no reckoning of any other to be God but himselfe yet this abhominable and wicked Atheist as God left him not vnpunished for by his iust iudgement hee was slaine by some of his owne officers so whilest he liued he was woont as the Historiographers report of him at the terrible thundering and lightning not onely to couer his head but also to get himselfe vnder his bed and there to hide himselfe for feare Whence I praie ●ame this feare vpon him but that his own conscience did tell him howsoeuer in words perchance hee would not affirme so much that there was a God in heauen able to quaile and cast down his pride and all the Emperours of the world if hee listed whose thunderboltes were so terrible as that iustly by his owne example he shewed hee was to bee feared of all the world And heereof it is that some say that God is called Deus of the Greeke word Theos which signifieth feare because the feare of him is planted and engraffed in the verie natures and conscience of all reasonable creatures yea euen in the conscience of the greatest contemners and ra●●kest Atheists of the world who say what they list and doe what they list yet shall they neuer bee able to root out this impression namely that there is a God whose feare is engrauen in the hearts of all men And whence I pray you commeth shame in men after an offence committed Or why should men by naturall distinct put a difference betwéene vertue and vice good and euill if there were not a God who because hee loueth the one and hateth the other hath written that difference in euery mans heart Therefore conclude that euery mans knowledge conscience and féeling is in stead of a thousand witnesses to conuince him whosoeuer he be that there is a God which is to be feared which hateth iniquitie and wicked waies and which in time of trouble and déepe distresse is to be sought vnto for refuge and reliefe as the acts of the very heathen themselues do plainely demonstrate 2 Moreouer as God is to bee felt sensible in euerie mans conscience so is he to be séene visibly if I may so speake in the creation of the world and of all thinges therein contained for that this world