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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62994	Atheismus vapulans, or, A treatise against atheism, rationally confuting the atheists of these times by Will. Towers ... Polytheismus vapulans, or, There is but one God.	Towers, William, 1617?-1666.; Towers, William, 1617?-1666. Polytheismus vapulans.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1959; ESTC R23437	141,181	385

make a God of Any or of All of These in that you Had Them and They Had not you in that they Serv'd you and you Rul'd them and an Gbedient God a Bounden and Chain'd Deity a Divinity under Lock Key You was never so much Persian to allow of much less Q. Curtius l. 4. scribit de Persis quod Deos quo Certius retinerent catenis vinciebant when Fortune has now turn'd one half of her wheel will you make the Clay Feet the Iron legs the Brazen Belly and Thighes of That prosperity a God whose Breast and Arms of Silver and Head of Fine Gold Dan. 2.32.33 you could not indure to worship Let Men that wrangle at wealth and for wealth the Clent and the Lawyer Creep and Crouch to such Images as These and think if they will that they are well awake the while whilst That they Dote upon is but an Image and not the Architype a Beam and not the Sun least of all Mal. 4.2 That of Righteousness and they themselves when they expect to grasp it do but Dream but let my Good Lord look higher and Pity the Childings at the Barre Let Him not be Froward with them that are Froward but buy love with love with so cheap a Fee let Him Purchase the One and Onely God who though He be but One and Onely Is and has All things and will sell them All at the Price of Love Prov. 8.17 I love them that love Me would they have Estates V. 18. and Titles Riches and Honour are with Me would they have Unmolested Estates and Unforfeited Titles yea Durable Riches and Righteousness what ever the violence of Time or Man takes away Is neither Wealth nor yours That which Lasts is Wealth and That which Is You is Yours the Philosopher said well Omnia Mea Mecum Bias. but your Christian Lordship sayes better Omnia mea Ego your self is only and all your Own nor can you stand in Need of Any thing from Any Other but from Christ may He Clothe you with His Robe of Righteousness and no matter though there be never a Pocket in it with That Robe you will have Peace with God and Without That Pocket Peace with Men too That you may be blessed Both these wayes and be so like your IESUS Luke 2 ult as to Increase in Favour with GOD and Man whilst you are on Earth at least inseparably and without any Altercation in Favour with Him who is God and Man in Heaven and yet in Both those Natures is but One Person and in That One Person is the same God with the other Two Three Persons and One God is the Prayer of Your Lordships obliged Chaplain and faithfull Servant WILLIAM TOWERS Polytheismus Vapulans OR There is but One GOD. 1. HOw Necessarily that First Doctrine that there Is a God is to be backt with this second Doctrine that there Is but one God will appear out of the corrupt nature of all the self-deifying opinions of some and the Diabolical practices of others 2. 'T is not only so in this great Case but it is so also in almost every Case where Man has more of passion then judgement and loves Interest above Truth and almost every man has so and dos so that when he is convinc'd he has been in an unprofitable errour he will never think he can run far enough from that unrewarding mistake till he runs into another Equally as bad as that and then dos not care how irrecoverably he sinks into a second Ditch so long as he is sure he escapes the danger of the former Pit 'T is so in the Religion of Nature in Morality 'T is not enough to tell the Covetous Man how base his sin is whilst he dos as Bion says he days † Sordidi Divites ita facultatum curam habent quasi propriarum ita parcunt tanquam alienis take so much care over his wealth as if it were his own his beloved Spouse Incubat Auro and so much spare it and forbear it as if it were another Mans to tell him that he starves himself that he may starve others to tell him that it is better to give then to hoard and that he hoards up his own Damnation that his Hell is stole away when his Bags are Ris●ed if he grieves more for the sin of him that open'd his Chest then because he left it empty When you have told him all this and more made him fear to be Rich Is 33.14 as much as he fears the everlasting burnings you will make him apt to sin as much in prodigality and wastfulness as he did before in laying up and going to Bed with the Key in his mouth Therefore you must tell him too that though the sparkling and yellowness of his Gold be like the Flame of fire of which too much and an ungovern'd heap will burn him yet a little of it if it kindles not in the very heart will warm him you must not only tell him Josh 7.21 that to with-hold the Wedge of another Man and to bury it in his own Tent will cause him to be put to death V. 26 and to have a heap of stones over him in Earth I and if he repent not if he testifie not his repentance by dispersing V. 22 by restoring to the owner and by giving to the poor a heap of Coals over him in Hell too insted of a heap of Gold and Silver under him but you must tell him too that 1 Tim. 5.8 if he provides not for his own he is worse then an Infidel and if he provides not of his own he is the same Man still worse then Infidel you must not only tell him that his extortion whereby he makes the poor eat stones Is 3.15 instead of Bread whereby himself grinds the poor people of God Ps 53.4 and eats even them up as it were Bread that this makes him to be less charitable Mat. 4.3 then the Devil himself who besought that stones might be made Bread but you must tell him too V. 4 that himself must live by Bread also though not by Bread only you must not only tell him as St. L. 2. Ep. 6. Non modo aliena non appetas hoc enim publicae leges p●niunt He means when the appetite is fill'd and not when it yawns sed Tica quae sunt aliena non s●ves Hierom does that he must not covet that which is another Mans for every right Christian St. will say as St. Austin did that the superfluity and over-plus of a rich Man is the debt and portion of a poor Man but you must tell him too that though every Man besides is his neighbour himself is his neighbour also Proximus egomet mihi is a good rule when it is a common rule and not an inclosure when it lets this and that Man be proximus too as in a Circle though the Line that is