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A platform, made for the proof of Gods providence that is, for examining of…A platforme, made for the proofe of Gods prouidence that is, for examining of…
A platform, made for the proof of Gods providence that is, for examining of the truth of this doctrine, whether God by his providence rule all things generally, and every creature and action particularly / by Arthur Dent.A platforme, made for the proofe of Gods prouidence that is, for examining of the truth of this doctrine, whether God by his prouidence rule all things generally, and euery creature and action particularly / by Arthur Dent.
London: printed by Ed. Allde for Henry Gosson, 1608
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I deny the second proposition, which is, that God cannot govern every several creature and their actions, but he must mingle himself with many unclean, and filthy matters: For that amongst the creatures, and their actions, there are many unclean things: this consequence, though it be the ground of the proposition is false, for although the power of God is in all his creatures, and ruled all, yet doth it not therefore follow, that the nature ⟨p. 27⟩of God doth intermeddle with the unpure actions of his creatures, which may be made plain by this similitude: the Sun of all visible creatures most excellent (man only excepted) doth most set forth the glory of God▪ it doth shine in every place, so that it shineth often upon the dunghill, and though the beams thereof do heat the dunghill, as they do all other places, and things which they pierce, Yet for all that the Sun is not polluted with the defilements and uncleanness of it, neither doth the substance of the beams of the Sun mingle it self with those things which it pierceth.
I denie the second proposition, which is, that God cannot gouerne euery seuerall creature and their actions, but he must mingle himselfe with many vncleane, and filthy matters: For that amongst the creatures, and their actions, there are many vncleane things: this consequence, though it bee the grounde of the proposition is false, for although the power of God is in all his creatures, and ruled all, yet doth it not therefore follow, that the nature ⟨p. 27⟩of God doth entermeddle with the vnpure actions of his creatures, which may be made plaine by this similitude: the Sunne of all visible creatures most excellent (man onely excepted) doth most set forth the glory of God▪ it doth shine in euery place, so that it shineth often vpon the dunghill, and though the beames thereof do heat the dunghill, as they do all other places, and thinges which they peirce, Yet for all that the Sunne is not polluted with the defilements and vncleanesse of it, neither doth the substance of the beames of the Sunne mingle it selfe with those things which it pearceth.