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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63515	The True effigies of the monster of Malmesbury, or, Thomas Hobbes in his proper colours	Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2693_PARTIAL; Wing M2259_PARTIAL; ESTC R5362	6,333	22

THE TRUE EFFIGIES OF THE Monster of Malmesbury OR THOMAS HOBBES IN HIS PROPER COLOURS LONDON Printed in the Year 1680. TO THE READER I Desire thou shouldst understand that the Author of the following Verses against Mr. Hobbes about Twenty Years since conceived that Indignation against him and that Hatred of his Illogical and Atheistical Genius which he has here Exprest and that he Avers that it is both the Effect of the DARKNESSE of this Mans Heart and the Cause of the Encrease of it that he holds that there cannot be an Idea of an Infinite Being I cannot think of any other of his wicked Conceits but what has been abundantly confuted by one or other of his Learned Adversaries but I have not observed that this hath been taken notice of by any one except Des Cartes wherefore I shall desire the Ingenious Reader to bestow his utmost Intention on these Words which the Author of these Verses delivered in a Discourse to a great Auditory about seven years since But my hardest Task is yet behind viz. to Prove as to a stubborn Atheist that there is a GOD. Many men declare that they have in their minds the Idea or Notion of GOD that is to say of a Being Absolutely Infinite I say many men declare that they have the Idea of this Being therefore certainly there is such a Being How may some say This is a fine Argument indeed It is so because Many Men think it is so Why may not that which you call an Idea of GOD be nothing else but a meer Conceit or Figment of the Mind To this we answer that we undertake to Demonstrate that it is not a meer Conceit c. which we apprehend under these Terms A Being Absolutely Infinite If it were a meer Conceit an Ens Rationis or Empty Notion then this Proposition would be True Some meer Conceit or Figment of the Mind is That which the Mind may Apprehend under these Terms A Being c. But that we Prove to be False thus That which 'tis possible for the Mind to comprehend and to know for certain that 't is nothing else but what it works or frames to it self is not That which the Mind may Apprehend under these Terms A Being Absolutely Infinite Every meer Conceit Ens Rationis or Figment of the Mind is that which 't is possible for the Mind to comprehend c. therefore No meer Conceit c. is That which the Mind may Apprehend under these Terms A Being Absolutely Infinite By these Words 't is possible for the Mind to comprehend I mean As to the Utmost Extent of its Natural Capacity not but that it may be Impossible for the Mind by reason of some Accidental Defect to Comprehend its own Operation Absolutely Infinite plainly implies All Excellency and Perfection that we can Understand and That which Infinitely Transcends our Understanding We know nothing more cettainly than this that Our Holy One is Incomprehensible 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sayes that Incomparable Divine St. Gregory Nazianzen And now I shall demonstrate to All Christians that there is an Idea or Notion of God in the Minds of All men And by this it will appear that 't is very Indiscreet not to say Wicked for any Christian to slight this Argument for the Conviction of the Madness of Atheism I do not wonder to see it slighted by that Monster the Father of the Leviathan or by his Friend Gassendus who has such Abominable Gross Conceits of the Deity that 't would look like a kind of Prophaneness to mention them in English before such a Promiscuous Auditory But this I shall say in scorn of those Ugly things which this New Philosopher and New Divine has written in opposition to Des Cartes that it is not strange that he who writes the Life of Gassendus sayes of Hobbes that he was Gassendo charissimus But let these men and the Admirers of their rare Metaphysicks Prate what they please we know are assur'd that these words were dictated to St. Paul by the Holy Ghost Rom. 1.15 Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts He speaks of the Gentiles which have not the Law that is says the truly Learned and Pious Doctor Hammond which have not that Revelation of Gods Will and Law which the Iews had By the work of the Law we understand That which the Law Requires to be done which our Saviour reduces to these Two Heads Thou shalt love the Lord thy God c. And thy Neighbour as thy self What can be more evident than this that in the work of the Law written in the Hearts of Men there is implied an Idea or Notion of God sith the Principal work of the Law is To Love God which Pythagoras and his Followers declare to be Written in their Hearts by that celebrated Saying of theirs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Follow God What a shame is it for any Christian not to Reflect upon the Brightness of his own Soul Illustrated by this Splendid Notion of the Deity so as to despise All the Glories of this perishing World But alas the Perverseness of our Wills averts our Understanding from reflecting on its own Light Shine upon us we beseech thee O Father of Lights in the Face of JESUS CHRIST the Brightness of thy Glory that in thy Light we may see Light Here I shall mind you of those Two Sacred Arguments to Demonstrate the Deity which the Psalmist uses in Ps. 19. to wit the Light of the Visible World and the Purity of the Law of GOD that Spiritual Light that proceeds from the Sun of Righteousness the Sun of the Invisible world Psal. 19.1 2 3 c. The Apostle sayes expresly Rom. 1.20 The Invisible things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his Eternal Power and Godhead And as for the Law of God the Holy Scriptures whosoever reads them with All Diligence and compares what he Reads with what he Sees in the World and what he often Feels in his own Soul he will certainly cry out with the Blessed Psalmist Verily there is a Reward for the Righteous verily he is a God that Judgeth in the Earth And now I shall mention another of Mr. Hobbes's wicked Conceits that thou maist more clearly perceive the Iustice of that vehement Indignation I have against him In his late Pamphlet entiuled An Historical Narrative concerning Heresie p. 11. He shews that he would fain have this Doctrine go for a piece of POPERY viz. That a mans Will and Purpose to commit Sin does not proceed from God but originally from himself or from the Devil Unhappy man who endeavours so plainly and openly to stain the Glory of the HOLY ONE and to Reconcile us to Sin the Only Absolute EVIL For he can never Rationally conclude that Sin deserves our utmost Hatred who has a Conceit that it Proceeds from GOD. The Spring and Original of all Sin