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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26122	The atheist unmasked, or, A confutation of such as deny the being of a supream deity that governs heaven and earth by unanswerable arguments deduc'd ... / by ---- a person of honour.	Person of honour.	1685 (1685)	Wing A4108; ESTC R16362	18,787	24

THE ATHEIST Unmasked OR A Confutation of such as deny the Being of a SUPREAM DEITY that governs HEAVEN and EARTH BY Unanswerable Arguments deduc'd 1. From the receiv'd Principles of Natural Reason 2. The Consent of all Nations who own and Worship a God though some mistake the Right object 3. From the certainty of Scripture History the most Authentick Record in the World And 4. From divers Reasons drawn from other Topic's All design'd to prevent the growth of Atheism the worst of Heresies By A Person of Honour Psalm 14.1 The Fool hath said in his heart there is no God see Psal 10.4 53.1 London Printed for Langley Curtiss at Sir Edmondbury-Godfreys Head near Fleet-bridge 1685. An ERRATA SEveral gross Faults are COmitted by the neglect of the Press which the Reader is desired to Correct with his Pen as in P. 3. l. 4. for will read would P. 4. l. 6. for uncontemptible read contemptible Fishermen P. 6. l. 1. for hearts read hearers l. 13. for Jnjuries read Enemies P. 10. l. 3. for satisfactions read satisfactory idem P. l. 11. for Dumb read Dim'd idem P. l. 18. for several read even all idem P. l. 23. and 24. for Andragoras read Anaxagoras and for Eumerus read Euemerus P. 12. l. 18. for and then Incite read and Cite P. 13. l. 24. for elimate read eliminate P. 14. for Eumerus read Euemerus idem P. l. 17. for Antioche read Antiochenus P. 18. l. the Last for bewitched read bewildred P. 19. l. 25. for and has no end read has no end P. 21. l. 7. for an intelligible Riddle read an untelligible Riddle idem P. l. 11. for extradate read extraduce THE ATHEIST UNMASKED c. THat there should be any such Monster in nature as for a Man who pretends to be a reasonable Creature to deny there is a God is an Impiety out-does the Devils who believe and tremble but Historians and Writings of former times have told us there were such amongst the Heathens and good Authors and sad experience do assure us that such have been and are in the times of Christianity Saint Jude tells us that in the last times there shall be Mockers living after their own Lusts ungodly Men that turn the grace of God into wantoness denying God our only Lord and our Lord Jesus Christ and I find a Learned and Pious Bishop of Salisbury who has written an excellent treatise against it sadly bewailing the growth of it above threescore Years since and sayes though it be a thing so necessary to be believed that there is a God yet least laboured in by Divines to farther our belief and though our Church be stored with some excellent Master Builders and Learned Men yet few or none sets his hand to this many work upon the walls to make them firm and strong many upon the roof to keep it close and light some beautifie and adorn it but none looks down into the ground work of it that it be laid so low as to reach unto the Rock whereby there is a space left for Pioneers and Underminers and such like deceitful Workers which are not able to break through the Walls yet do dig under the Foundation to evert all and complains that this argument is the most deserted part of all Theology and wherein fewest Divines have bestowed their pains the more is the pitty which puts me in mind of the Parable in the Gospel of the Man that sowed good seed in his Field and whilst he slept the Enemy came and sowed Tares so be the seed never so good and well sown yet if it be neglected and we sleep the Enemy win take advantage to sow his Tares and if little or no notice be taken of him he will grow bold and think himself in the right But I must not stay upon generalls resolving to confine my discourse into a very narrow compass for I observe the fate of long tracts to be fruitless in a great measure because the price deterrs most from buying and the length from reading I must be forced also if I have hope of prevailing with or against the Atheist to loose the advantage of Scripture proofs in a great measure because he denies the Scriptures to be of God but to be only humane inventions to cozen the People so that it would be to cast Pearls before Swine to trample them under their feet But by the Atheists leave 't is very unreasonable for him not to give the Scripture so antient an History that Historical Faith that he does to Plutarch Livie and other Historiographers who takes for truth what they write because he cannot accuse the Authors of falshood and for him to say the Scriptures are the contrivances of Men unless he could by some demonstration or probable argument make it appear so is a pittiful shift if they had been such the prying Atheist and his spawn the Deboshee would long since have detected it and we should have heard of it with both Eares all that he can possibly object must be either they that wrote them were deceivers or were themselves deceived I 'le first instance the New Testament which the Atheist most slights and therein the Four Evangelists who write the Life and Death and Resurrection of Christ whosoever weighes their Writings and considers what good Precepts there are of Love Charity Meekness Patience Humility Obedience to Magistrates and Parents and what threatnings to Wickedness Debauchery Whoredom Swearing Lying Drunkenness and all evil must certainly conclude they were not deceivers the Jews indeed as mortal Enemies to Christ and his Disciples as the Atheist endeavoured to make the World believe they and their Master were such but the Resurrection of Christ galled them for when they found he was risen from the Grave and his Tomb empty they raged extreamly and were cut to the heart well knowing that if his Resurrection should be admitted that would justifie Christ and his Apostles and condemn themselves for Malefactors in Crucifying him as the Council told the Apostles Act. 5. You will bring this Mans Blood upon us then if the Resurrection of Christ which is the Foundation of all Religion can by any probable demonstration be cleared the Atheist must acknowledge there is a God and his Apostles not deceivers therefore I 'le only insist upon that which to prevent the World from believing they thought the probablest way was to corrupt the Watch that kept the Sepulchre with assurance of indemnity to say his Disciples came by Night and stole him away while they slept this is a very improbable tale and carries fiction in the fore-head for 't is clear Christ was Buried on the Fryday and there was no Watch set till the Night following then surely if his Disciples would have stollen him away they would have done it the first Night when there was no Watch set Mat. 27.62 and indeed 't is too incredible they could do it and too too incredible they would do it 'T is too too