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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09977	Life eternall or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes Delivered in XVIII. sermons. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, D. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1631 (1631)	STC 20231; ESTC S115069	220,964	434

GOD Psal. 115. It is true of all other gods they are dead vanities they are Idols and have no life in them only God is living he only hath life in himselfe and gives life to all other things in the world Therefore there is none other god besides him Now we come to particulars As Take all the religions that ever have beene in the world besides that which we professe take all the gods that have beene set up by others they are divided into two times either before or since Christ before and they are either those gods that were worshipped by the Grecians and the Romans the wisest of the Heathens or else those that were worshipped by the Barbarians Now they worshipped the Sunne and Moone and foure-footed beasts Rom. 1. If there be question of any it is of those among the Romans such as were Saturne and Iupiter and Inno c. which are now altogether exploded and there is enough said against them even by their owne Writers As 1 They were men and therefore not gods this was the argument that Tertullian and Iustin Martyr used to convince those amongst whom they lived that Iuno Iupiter Neptune c. were Saturnes off-spring and therefore they were men and if men then borne of men and their Genealogies are recorded by their owne Writers 2 And as they were men so they were the worst of men given to the grossest vices as adultery theft murther c. Object And if it be objected as it was to Lactantius that these are only fictions of Poets Answ. I answer that the Poets were their Prophets as the Apostle saith One of your Prophets saith so and they did but give light to the picture and all their owne Writers agree as Cicero and Varro that they were subject to those vices that wee named 3 They did dye and therefore were not gods and therefore they would in one place shew you a sepulchre and in another place a temple erected to the same god which is an extreme contradiction yet this was acknowledged even by them that worshipped them and as for Tully we cannot have more against him than he himselfe confesseth in his Tractate De naturâ deorum as one saith Re tollit deos sed oratione reliquit He tooke away their gods in deed though not in word and himselfe saith Vtinam tam facile veram religionem invenire possim quàm falsam convincere I would I could as well finde out the truth of true religion as the falsenesse of the other All which are disputed at large by Tertullian and Augustine De civitate Dei and Clemens Alexandrinus who lived in those dayes which we speak the more of because it was that which did spread it selfe even over the whole world for many ages together And as for the gods that are worshipped by the Chaldaeans and the Syrians as the Sunne and Moone they are not worth the naming There is another religion that is growen up since Christ the religion of Mahomet which hath spread over the most part of the world for if that computation be true that is lately given they have foureteene times as much as any other hath and they arose about six hundred yeares after Christ and therefore they have continued a long time I speake not this because I thinke that any here had need to be disswaded from it but to shew that there was never any veri-similitude of it but that God was alwayes God alone Therfore against it I will use foure arguments 1 Mahomet did fully acknowledge the truth of the Old Testament and of the New yet the things which he delivers are contrary to both which confirmes our religion and shewes the falsenesse of theirs for he did acknowledge that Moses received the Old Testament from God and so did the Prophets and he repeats most of the story he acknowledgeth the creation of Adam and the eating of the forbidden fruit and the whole story of Abraham and his calling and the offering of his sonne Isaac and also he acknowledgeth the whole History of Moses how God appeared to him and how he went into Aegypt and of the ten Plagues that he sent upon the Aegyptians and the wonders that hee wrought going downe into Canaan and so of all the rest naming the booke of Psalmes and quoting things out of it and of Deuteronomy acknowledging many of the Prophets as Eliah Samuel Iob and Ionah and he confesseth that there were many more which he did not name and so hee acknowledgeth the New Testament likewise hee acknowledgeth that Christ was borne of a Virgin and that by the mightie power of God without man that he healed diseases and that he received the Gospell from God himselfe and that God gave power to him more than to all the Prophets that were before him and that hee was the word and power of God and that all that doe beleeve in him shall be be saved and they shall follow him in white garments and that hee which beleeves it not shall be damned and hee acknowledgeth the New Testament to beare witnesse to the Old and he acknowledgeth the resurrection the comming of Iohn Baptist and he speakes very honourably of Christ except only in two things 1 He tooke up the opinion of the Arrians to deny his Divinitie 2 And also he denied that he was crucified but that some body was crucified for him He brought in a new religion and yet he professeth that hee had no miracles or predictions of things to come Now when religion is not confirmed by miracles or predictions of things to come or holinesse of life it is a token that there is no truth in it We may perceive it by the writing of the Alcoran It is so barbarous that there is no sense in it and they say that he could neither write nor reade and so the writing shewes that it was by one that was an ignorant man that had no skill and those stories that are alleaged out of the Scripture have much falshood mixed with them which is a signe that he never read them himselfe but that he had them by relation but onely hee speaking to a very ignorant people they received it of him and having inlarged themselves by the sword and so they continue to this day The impuritie of his doctrine he cut off what was hard to be beleeved and whatsoever was difficult to practise and he propounded that to the people wherein there was no hardnesse no difficultie promising them a paradise wherein they should have all pleasures and should enjoy women and also they should have meat drinke apparell and fruits of all sorts as also they should have silken and purple carpets to lye upon c. and also he professeth that he had a licence given him from God to know what women he would and to put them away when he would which licence was given to him and to no other All which