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A39248 A catechism wherein the learner is at once taught to rehearse and prove all the main points of Christian religion by answering to every question in the very words of Holy Scripture : together with a short and plain discourse useful to confirm the weak and unlearned in his belief of the being of a God and the truth of Scripture / by Clement Ellis ... Ellis, Clement, 1630-1700. 1674 (1674) Wing E550; ESTC R15049 47,017 128

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he and not easie to be gulled out of their liberrty and the more simple are rather apt to suspect than believe all that Politicians commend unto them Lastly Did he pretend the universal good of all mankind and rationally convince men that the belief of a God that governeth and shall judge the world is the onely thing that preserves good order in the world if so then tell me did he say the truth or did he lie in saying there is a God If he said truly then is it a truth and to be believed If it was a lie then is it for the good of the whole world and therefore a duty to believe a lie rather than a truth For if it be a lie to say there is a God then is a lie the Foundation and Pillar of all goodness and virtue peace and order faithfulness and honesty among men And if it be true to say there is no God then is a truth the Foundation of all wickedness disorder and mischief And who but the Atheist who can believe any thing but a God will be perswaded to believe this 2. The very works of Nature give the world great reason to believe ●s it doth that there is a God Let a man thus again reason with himself 1. Suppose I were in some unknown Island and there saw goodly Fields and Meadows of Corn and Grass Pastures full of all kind of Cattel stately Houses and the Rooms in them adorned with rich Furniture Tables furnished with variety of Victuals neat Gardens fruitful Orchards and Fishponds with many other curious works of Art and Skill though all this while I saw no man in that place yet surely I should think that these things were not thus of themselves or by chance but that some skilful and provident person had thus ordered them How can I then look upon this world and the numerous parts of it above and below the wonderful splendor and beauty the great variety the rare contrivance the comely and constant order of things the ample provision made for every thing the mutual service ableness and usefulness of them all and the like but I must needs believe that there is some infinitely powerful wise and good Maker and Governour of the world whom men call God 2. When I look upon my self and consider how wounder●●lly I am made how I am furnished with all useful Instruments of Life and Sense and Motion how fitly every part and member of my body is placed and how wisely contrived and fashioned ●oth for the beauty of the whole and for the particular use and office to what it serves what strange powers and faculties of Soul I have and how wonderful are the workings of imagination phancy and reason within me and the like I must needs think whence I should have these things I am sure I did not thus order them my self and there was a time when I had none of them and when I was not what now I am and therefore I must needs have both my being and all that is in me from some others Who should this other be My Parents and theirs before them might say the very same of themselves that I now do and they could not make me what I am they could not certainly promise themselves a Child they knew not how I was formed in the Womb how my parts or members were set together nor took they any care to order them when I was conceived they could not tell whether I should be a Man or a Woman or Monster perfect or imperfect a Wise man or a Fool ●nor yet whether I should be born or live when born No Man understandeth half the wonders of himself how he is nourished and groweth and seeth and heareth and thinketh and dreameth no not so much as how his hairs and nails came to be what they are What then can I think but that I am the work of one who is wonderful in power and wisdom and goodness who made both me and all Men even God Thirdly Now that I am I find that I am not in my own power I cannot bring about all my own designs and purposes as I would I cannot supply my own wants and imperfections nor continue to my self all my enjoyments and comforts I cannot make my food nourish my Body nor keep my Body from Sickness or pain nor make that part straight which is crooked or beautiful which is deformed I cannot keep out fears nor rule my thoughts nor hinder casualties nor prolong my Life nor prevent my Death and Corruption I am therefore in the power at the disposal and under the Providence of another by whom I am preserved and governed that is God Fourthly For ought that I can perceive and we must rea●●n from what we can perceive and not from what we cannot Man is the most perfect and Noble of all things here below Man hath Life and motion and sense and choice and understanding and reason and discourse whereas of other things some want all and all want some of these yea in all appearance all these things were designed for the use and benefit of Man for they are fitted for his use and he can and doth upon occasion use them and we see no other use of many of them I cannot therefore believe that Man was made by any of them and I am sure Man did not make them but both they and Man were made by some other for if Man be not of himself nor in his own power but governed by another much less are those things which appear subject and inferior to Man of themselves or in their own power but rather are all governed by God the Maker of all Lastly All things are and work for some end and purpose even things without understanding or sense or life work as it were by a certain Rule and that visibly for the preservation of themselves and the common good of the World and especially of Man The Heavenly Bodies orderly and duly shed abroad their influence of Light and heat to make the Earth fruitful and direct and cherish man and beast the Earth yields her Fruits in due season for the nourishment of her Inhabitants and without the Orderly motion either of the Earth or Heavenly bodies that Light and warmth would not be equally distributed to the several parts of the Earth and Summer and Winter and Spring and Harvest and day and night would not keep their right course If the Waters did not contentedly keep within their own banks and Channels the Earth would be drowned and except Vapours did go up and gather into Clouds and come down in seasonable showers the Earth would be barren and Man and Beast would perish We see how all living Creatures do propagate for the upholding of their kind and how Plants bring Seed to the same end and that Seed scattered in the Earth furnisheth us with a new stock of Plants We see how living Creatures are Armed with Natural weapons for their