Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	divine_a	subsist_v	subsistence_n	3,560	5	13.2403	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60284	Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently against the saducees and atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentick records, attestations of famous witnesses and undoubted verity : to all which is added, that marvellous history of Major Weir, and his sister : with two relations of apparitions at Edinburgh / by Georg Sinclar ...	Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3858; ESTC R4971	118,890	288

following the Hobbesian and Spinosian Principles slight Religion and undervalue the Scripture because there is such an express mention of Spirits and Angels in it which their thick and plumbeous capacities cannot conceive Whereupon they think that all contained in the Universe comes under the notion of things matterial and bodies only and consequently no GOD no Devil no Spirit no Witch Hobbs the Inglishman is too well known by his Atheistical writtings Benedictus Spinosa or rather Maledictus a stranger abroad a profain abuser of the Scripture will have all those Devils which CHRIST and his Disciples cast out to be but Diseases in mens Bodies There is a second Reason namely the absurd Principles of the Cartesian Philosophy eagerly maintained by Cartes his Followers in their publick Writtings and Disputations abroad They do not indeed assert there is no GOD but rather seem to prove so much especially by his Idea which is Connatural to all men This may seem a plausible reason but when it s put to the Test or Touchston it with others of that kind are not found sufficient nor able to convince Atheists That their Principles are absurd and dangerous I shall mention a few of them which are owned and maintained publickly abroad especially in Holland As 1 that we must doubt of all things before we can come to any clear distinct knowledge of them We must suppose they say there is no God no Heavens no Earth nay which a man ought to tremble at to speak of that GOD is a deceiver 2 They incroach upon the sound Orthodox Religion and the Articles of our Faith and go quite contrary to all Christian and Protestant Divines and would have the Orthodox Theology reformed by their fanatical Philosophy 3 That Philosophy is not subservient or an Hand-maid to Divinity 4 That Philosophy is as sure as Divine and also revealed as the Scripture is 5 That the Scripture in things Natural speaks according to the erroneous opinion of the Vulgar That Philosophy and Philosophers are the Interpreters of the Scripture in things Natural 6 That the Scripture in things Moral and Practical speaks according to the erroneous Judgment and Opinion of the Vugar 7 That the Scripture in matters of Faith speaks also according to the erroneous opinion of the vulgar 8 That Philosophy is the infallible Interpreter of the Scripture 9 That the Cortesians their Clear and Distinct Perception is the onely Rule of all Truth 10 That there is in every man an Idea of GOD without the Consideration of which no man can attain to the knowledge of Gods Existence and Nature though he were never so well furnished with the light of Nature and the knowledge of the works of Creation and Providence 11 That GOD may be properly defined 12 That the Divine Essence consists only in Cogitation 13 That GOD cannot properly be called a Spirit because say they a Spirit to speak properly denotes some corporeal thing 14 That the life which the Scripture attributes to GOD and whereby he is called the Living GOD is nothing else but his Understanding and his Will 15 That GOD by his power can make one thing contradictory to another 16 That GOD can deceive if he please 17 That GOD can make an Infinitum both as to bulk and number 18 That God is From himself not only Negative but also Positive That is he is not only Independent from all things whatsoever but is from himself as if he were the cause of himself both prior and posterior to himself 19 That his Omnipresence is nothing else but his most Efficacious Will by which he sustains and governs all things 20 That the Mysterie of the Trinity may be demonstrat by Natural Reason 21 That the Communicability of the Divine Essence doth not arise from its infinitness 22 That the three Persons of the God-head are neither distinguished among themselves Really nor Modaliter 23 That the three Persons are neither distinguished from the Divine Essence Really nor Modaliter nor ratione ratiocinat● 24 That in Explaining the Work of Creation we may lawfully make use of false Suppositions 25 That the first Chaos was able of it felf to produce all things material 26 That God did not creat all things for Man 27 That the World hath a Soul 28 That the world as to its bulk is indefinite but may be infinite 29 That there is a world in the Moon 30 That the Angels might have existed and been before the world was made 31 That the Essence of Angels consists only in Cogitation 32 That what marvellous works have been performed by Angels as killing an hundred fourscore and five thousand of the Assyrians wer done by their bare thought and Cogitation 33 That the Essence of the Soul of man consists only in Cogitation 34 That every man hath two Souls one Rational the other Animal 35 That the Rational Soul may be absent and yet the Bodie living by vertue of the Animal Soul This by the way is a brave invention to let see how Witches may be transported to Balls of Dancing and far countreys and their Bodies tary at home For the Devil may put their Rational Soul into some Aerial Vehicle or a Body made of condensed Air and carry it whithersoever he pleases while the Animal Soul may keep life in the Body at home 36 That it is proper only to the Will to affirm and deny 37 That the will is infinite after its own manner and that it can will all things which God can will 40 That the Idea of God in man belongs to the Image of God in man 41 That Brutes want life sense and Perception 42 They confound Gods Omnipresence with his Providence 43 That the explication of Original sin is to be sought for from the inmost Cabins of the Cartesian Philosophy 44 That the Intellect doth not err nor can err 45 That it is in the Will of Man not to assent but to things clearly and distinctly perceived 46 That the Decree of God leaves the free actions of men indetermined 47 That the Personal Subsistence namely that Subsistence by which the Humane Nature subsists is but a meer figment of Divines 48 That the Divine Nature cannot be present or united to the humane Nature but by an external operation 49 That Grace in the Conversion of a man is not irresistable 50 That Faith is not Knowledge 51 That Faith doth not belong to the Understanding 52 That Faith consists only in hungering and thristing after Righteousness 53 That Death is not the separation of the Soul and Body 54 That the Resurrection is not the re-union of the Soul and the Body 55 That the Souls of the Righteous do not properly pass immediatly into heaven 56 That the Souls of the wicked do not presently pass into hell These are a part of the Cartesian Tenets What dangerous Principles they are and what dreadful consequences may be drawn from them is evident to all sober men James Arminius and his followers