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A51700 The atheist silenced, or, The existence of a deity and his creation and government of the world demonstrated from reason, and the light of nature only, in a plain and mathematical method by axioms and theorems : with an appendix touching the most proper method of preaching the Gospel among the heathens / by J.M. ... J. M. 1672 (1672) Wing M33; ESTC R16187 19,711 131

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theorems 9th and 17th Therefore c. Again whatever is must either be of its self or have its being from some other being Axiom 6th for nothing viz. That which hath no being cannot give being to any thing Axiom the 4th but no finete thing is of its self Theorem 19th and if it take being from another such other must be either a Finite or an Infinite if you say the last you grant our present Theorem If the first it will be replyed That this other Being must have its being either from Infinite or some finite being and so you must still either grant our Theorem or else continue your progress from assigning one finite after another which would be against our 22 d. Axiom and though you should be permitted so to do to never so great a number yet could not the same be Infinite because Infinite is undividable Theorem the 7th but such number though never so vast being composed of the unities of the finite beings produced will be dividable into the same Axiom the 20th and so will not be Infinite but Finite and by consequence there may be assigned the first of such finite beings whereby the rest were produced and which it self was produced by none of them for no Circulation can be Theorem the 20th And when such first finite being is assigned we shall still say it is not of its self Theorem the 19th but hath its being from some other being either finite or infinite but it cannot be from any finite for then this not that should be the first of finite beings which is against the Hypothesis and therefore it must be from infinite being Then agreeing the first finite being to come from Infinite being It will follow that the other finite things produced by that first are likewise from infinite being for that which is the Cause of the Cause is the Cause of the thing Caused Axiom 17. whence appears the truth of our Theorem that every finite hath its being from that which is Infinite That the number of finite things produced by other finite beings is not infinite is thus also demonstrable Suppose the number of Men hitherto produced to be Infinite the same will contain all the Men that have been are or can be Axiom 13th and so no Man would be henceforwards producible but experience shews us every day and moment fresh Men are produced and that without Circulation therefore the number of Men produced is not Infinite but finite and consequently there is a First c. as before now what is here instanced in Men holding● true by parity of reason in all other finite things which have being one from another it therefore undeniably follows that every finite being hath its being from a being that is infinite Here let us take breath a while and consider that if a being which is confined to some limits of being be properly termed finite then a being which transcends all bounds of being must be called Infinite Of some of the proprieties of both these we have treated hitherto comparing them one with the other yet not at all determining whether there were any such things especially any Infinite being so the explication of the first Theorem but only have made it evident that if there be such things as Finite beings none of them can be of its self but every of them can only be from some being that is Infinite and now we proceed thus THEOREM XXII The World is Finite For the Terestical Globe is not the whole World but a part thereof the same we may say of the Sun Moon and every Star or even of Heaven it self whence it appears that the World is a certain whole Composed of those parts and is therefore dividable into them Axiom the 20th so not Infinite Theorem the 7th therefore Finite THEOREM XXIII There is really an Infinite Being For there is really a finite Being As the Earth the Sun the Moon Man c. Therefore there must be an Infinite Being from whom these have their Being Theorem the 21st For it cannot be said that heretofore indeed there was an Infinite Being that gave being to these Finites but the same is now no more for then such Infinite being must have been included in Limits of duration and consequently not Infinite Definition the 7th which is contradictory and absurd THEOREM XXIV Infinite Being is of it self For otherwise it hath its being from other besides it self Axiom the 6th which must be either Finite or Infinite but it could not from the first because the Vertue of a finite Being being finite Axiom the 10th Its effects cannot be Infinite Axiom the 11th nor from the Second for there cannot be two Infinite beings Theorem the 6th therefore the Axiom is undeniable Again Infinite being is Esse it self Theorem the 17th but Esse is of its self Theorem the 25th therefore Infinite being must be of its self THEOREM XXV Infinite Being is Independent For it is of it self Theorem the 24th therefore Independent or any other Axiom the 7th THEOREM XXVI Whatever is Independent is Infinite For whatever is of its self is Esse it self Theorem the 16th but whatever is Independent is of its self Axiom the 7th therefore whatever is Independent is Esse it self but such Esse is infinite Theorem the 17th Therefore so is whatsoever is independent THEOREM XXVII Infinite Being is Eternal For otherwise either it hath its Being from some other against our 24th Theorem or past of it self from nothing to an actual existence against our 18th Theorem therefore Infinite being must needs be Eternal or rather is its own Eternity or Eternity it self THEOREM XXVIII No real matter flows from Infinite Being out of its self whereby it may produce a Finite Being For if there should Infinite Being would be dividable against the 7th Theorem THEOREM XXIX Infinite Being produces a Finite Being by the simple Act of its will For since no real thing flows from it out of its self whereby it may produce a Finite Being Theorem the 28th Therefore it must needs produce the same by some Immanent Act which can be no other than the meer Act of its will for in the production of finite things we must necessarily at last come to some first things produced by Infinite being alone as we have proved Theorem 21st But innumerable things there were producible which of themselves were equally indifferent to be produced therefore when Infinite Being goes to produce something out of it self either all things possible to be produced should be produced together at once or nothing both which it is plain are false and absurd or else Lastly we must admit an election or Act of such Infinite Beings will whereby it produced one thing rather than another since it is in its producing superlatively free powerful and wise yea supream liberty and infinite wisdom and power it self Theorem the 9th Yet still the production of a finite being is