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A26782 Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompences of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectick evil of the times / by William Bates ... Bates, William, 1625-1699. 1676 (1676) Wing B1101; ESTC R10741 84,039 330

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seen unless sought for so there are some unnatural Enormities that conscious how execrable they are conceal themselves in secret and dare not appear in open view And of all others no impiety is so monstrous and fearful of publick discovery as Atheism But The fool saith in his heart there is no God He secretly whispers in contradiction to Nature Reason Conscience Authorities there is no supream invisible Power to whom he is accountable And having thus concluded in the dark he loses all reverence of the Divine Laws and is only govern'd by the vicious rule of his carnal Appetites That many in our times even of the great Pretenders to Wit and Reason are guilty of this extream folly is sadly evident They live as absolute Atheists only refuse the title for fear of infamy or punishment It will therefore not be unseasonable to revive the natural notion of the Deity Now to establish this Truth no Arguments are more convincing than what are level to all understandings And those are I. The visible frame of the World and the numerous natures in it all model'd by this supream rule the good of the whole II. The Evidences that prove the World had a beginning in time III. The universal sence of the Deity imprest on the minds of Men. 1. The first Reason is clear and intelligible to all for 't is the inseparable property of an intellectual Agent to propound an End to judg of the convenience between the Means and it and to contrive them in such a manner as to accomplish it Now if we survey the Universe and all the beings it contains their proportion dependence and harmony it will fully appear that antecedently to its existence there was a perfect mind that design'd it and disposed the various parts in that exact order that one beautiful World is compos'd of them The Philosopher conjectured truly who being shipwrackt on the Island of Rhodes and come to the shore spying some Mathematical figures drawn on the Sand cryed out with joy Vestigia hominum video I see the foosteps of men and comforted his dispairing companions that they were not cast into a Desert or a place of Savages but of Men civil and wise as he discover'd by those impressions of their minds And if we observe the frame of the World the concatenation of the superior with the middle and of the middle with the lower parts whereby 't is not an accidental aggregation of bodies but an intire universe if we consider the just disposing them conveniently to their nature and dignity the inferiour and less noble depending on the superiour and that so many contrary natures with that fidelity and league of mutual love embrace and assist each other that every one working according to its peculiar quality yet all unite their operations for one general end the preservation and benefit of the whole must not we strongly conclude that 't is the work of a designing most wise Agent Pulchrum pulcherrimus ipse Mundum mente gerens similique ab imagine formans To make this more evident I will produce some Instances The Sun of all coelestial Bodies the most excellent in beauty and usefulness does in its situation motion effects publish the glory of a most wise Providence 1. In its situation The fountains of all his benefit to Nature are heat and light with respect to its heat the Sun may well be call'd the Heart of the World wherein all the vital Spirits are prepar'd and 't is so conveniently plac't as to transmit more or less immediatly to all even the most distant parts of that vast body by perpetual irradiations the influences necessary for its preservation It cannot be in another place without the disorder and injury of Universal Nature If it were rais'd to the Stars the Earth for want of its quickning heat would lose its prolifick vertue and remain a carcass The Air would be fill'd with continual oppressing vapours the Sea would overflow the Land If it were as low as the Moon as dangerous effects would follow The Air would be inflam'd by its excessive heat the Sea boyling the Rivers dryed up every Mountain a Vesuvius or Aetna the whole Earth a barren mass of Ashes a desert of Arabia But seated in the midst of the Planets it purifies the Air abates the superfluity of Waters temperately warms the Earth and keeps the Elements in such degrees of power as are requisit for the activity of mixt bodies depending on them Besides there is a sensible proof of a wise Director in its Motion from whence so many and various effects proceed The Diurnal Motion from East to West causes the Day The Sun is the first spring and great original of Light and by his presence discovers the beauties of the most of visible Objects From hence all the pleasant variety of Colours to which Light is the Soul that gives vivacity Without it the World would be the Sepulcher of it self nothing but silence and solitude horror and Confusion The Light guides our Journeys awakens and directs our Industry preserves mutual Conversation And the withdrawing of the Sun from one Hemisphere to another is as beneficial to the World by causing Night For that has peculiar advantages It s darkness inlightens us to see the Stars and to understand their admirable Order Aspects Influences their Conjunction Distances Opposition from which proceeds their different effects in all passive Bodies Now what can be more pleasant than the Ornaments and Diversities of these Twins of time Besides by this distinction of the Day and Night there is a fit succession of labour and rest of the Works and Thoughts of Men those proper to the Day active and clear the other to the Night whose obscurity prevents the wandring of the mind through the senses and silence favours its calm contemplations And the constant revolution of Day and Night in the space of twenty four hours is of great benefit If they should continue six entire Months together as under the Poles though their space would be equal in the compass of the Year as now yet with publick disadvantage The shining of the Sun without intermission would be very hurtful to the Earth and to its Inhabitants And its long absence would cause equal mischeifs by contrary qualities For the nature of Man and other living Creatures cannot subsist long in travail without repairing their decays by rest Now the succession of Day and Night in that space fitly tempers their labour and repose After the toilsom service of the Day the Sun retires behind the Earth and the Night procures a truce from business unbends the World and invites to rest in its deep silence and tranquillity And by sleep when the animal operations cease the Spirits that were much consum'd in the service of the senses are renewed and united in assistance to the vital faculties the Body is restored and at the springing Day made fresh and active for new labour So that the wisdom of