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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42819	Philosophia pia, or, A discourse of the religious temper and tendencies of the experimental philosophy which is profest by the Royal Society to which is annext a recommendation and defence of reason in the affairs of religion / by Jos. Glanvill ...	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1671 (1671)	Wing G817; ESTC R23327	57,529	244

Eagle and the other furniture of Land and Air and Seas in the 4 last Chapters of that Book in all these are the marks of his Glory and his Greatness and they are no less so of his Wisdom and his Goodness For in wisdom he hath made them all Psal. civ and the Earth is full of his goodness Psal. cxix 54. SECT II. AND again II. when devout and holy men would quicken their own souls and those of others to praise him they use the same method and send abroad their thoughts among the Creatures to gather instances of acknowledgment Thus Elihu in Job magnifieth his Power by the lightning and Thunder by the Snow and Rain by the whirlwinds of the North and Cold of the South and calls upon his afflicted friend to remember to magnifie his Works that men behold and again bids him stand still and consider the wondrous Works of God Job xxxvi and xxxvii Chapters And the Psalmist upon the same account urgeth his soul to bless his Maker for his Majesty and Honour disclosed in the natural wonders of the heavens and earth the winds and waters the springs and grass the Trees and Hills Psalm civ throughout and he gives particular thanks again cxxxvi Psalm for the discoveries of the Divine wisdom and mercy in the same instances of his providence and power which he further celebrates by calling upon the noblest of inanimates to praise him Psal. cxlviii Praise him Sun and Moon praise him ô ye Stars and Light which creatures of his though they are not able to sing Hallelujahs and so vocally to rehearse his praise yet they afford glorious matter for grateful and triumphant songs and by their beauty and their order excite those that study and observe them to adore and glorifie their Maker And therefore the Prophet runs on further into an aggregation of more particulars of Fire and Hail Storms and Vapours Mountains and Cedars Beasts and Fouls and creeping things all which in the same Divin●… Canticle are summon'd to praise him that is we are required to use them as the matter and occasions of holy Eucharist and thanksgiving To these I adde III. That God was pleased to sanctifie a solemn day for the celebration of his Works He appointed a Sabbath for rest and contemplation to himself and for praise and acknowledgment to us and his making Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is is intimated in the Commandment as the reason of the consecration of that Day which was observed upon that account among the Jews and the devout Christians of eldest times kept the same in memory of Gods Creation after the institution of the other Sabbath This I take to be enough for the first Proposition viz. That God is to be praised for his Works I descend to the second which is SECT III. II. THat his Works are to be studied by those that would praise him for them We are commanded to sing praises with understanding Psal. xl 7. and the offering he requires is that of a reasonable service His Works receive but little glory from the rude wonder of the ignorant and there is no wise man that values the applauses of a blind admiration No one can give God the Glory of his Providences that lets them pass by him unobserv'd nor can he render due acknowledgments to his word that doth not search the Scriptures 'T is alike impossible to praise the Almighty as we ought for his Works while we carelesly regard them We are commanded to search for wisdom as for hidden Treasure It lies not exposed in the common ways and the chief wonders of divine art and goodness are not on the surface of things layed open to every careless eye The Tribute of praise that we owe our Maker is not a formal slight confession that his works are wonderful and glorious but such an acknowledgment as proceeds from deep observation and acquaintance with them And though our profoundest study and inqu●…ies cannot unriddle all the mysteries of Nature yet do they still discover new motives to devout admiration and new objects for our loudest praises Thus briefly of the second Proposition also viz. That Gods Works are to be studied by those that would praise him for them From these I now advance to the Third which will require more thoughts and it is SECT IV. III. THat the study of nature and Gods works is very serviceable to Religion We commonly believe that the glory of God is the end of this we say 't is his and we know 't is ours and the divine glory is writ upon his Creatures the more we study them the better we understand those characters the better we read his Glory and the more fit are we to celebrate and proclaim it Thus the knowledge of God's Works promotes the end of Religion And it disposeth us to it by keeping the soul under a continual sense of God He that converseth with his works finds in all things the clear stamps of infinite benignity and wisdom he perceives the divine art in all the turnings and varieties of nature and divine goodness in that He observes God in the colour of every flower in every fi●…re of a plant in every limb of an insect in every drop of dew He meets him in all things and sees all things are his and hath an advantage hereby to be instructed how to use them as our Makers not ours with reverence and thanksgiving with an eye to his glory and an aim at his enjoyment This is the genuine tendency of the knowledge of nature if it be abused to different and contrary purposes Natural wisdom is not in fault but he that turns this excellent instrument of Religion upon it self But that better use may be made of it and by some is will appear by considering particularly how acquaintance with nature assists RELIGION against its greatest Enemies which are Atheism Sadducism Superstition Enthusiasm and the Humour of disputing CHAP. II. Philosophy serves Religion against Atheism by shewing the wonderful Art and Contrivance that is in the contexture of the effects of Nature 'T is to be suspected that he is an Atheist that saith Philosophy tends to Atheism No Philosophy doth so much assist Religion against Atheism as the experimental and mechanick SECT I. FOr the First Atheism I reckon thus the deeper insight any man hath into the affairs of nature the more he discovers of the accurateness and Art that is in the contexture of things For the works of God are not like the compositions of fancy or the Tricks of Juglers that will not bear the light of a strict scrutiny but their exactness is honour'd by severity of inspection and he admires most that knows most since the insides and remotest recesses of things have the clearest strokes of inimitable wisdom on them and the artifice is more in the wheel-work then in the case For if we look upon any of the works of Nature through a magnifying glass that makes deep