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Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with…
Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompenses of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectic evil of the times / by William Bates ...Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompences of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectick evil of the times / by William Bates ...
London: printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer, 1676
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.
Add further, The Wisdom of the Creator is discovered by observing the league of the Elements from whence all mixed bodies arise. Of how different qualities are Earth, Water, Air, Fire? yet all combine together without the destruction of their enmity, that is as necessary to preserve nature as their friendship. Can there be imagined a greater discord in the parts of the Elementary World, and a greater concord in the whole? To reduce them to such an equilibrium that all their operations promote the same end, proves that there is a Mind of the highest Wisdom, that has an absolute Dominion over all things, ⟨p. 27⟩and tempers them accordingly.
Add further, The Wisdom of the Creatour is discovered by observing the league of the Elements from whence all mixt bodies arise. Of how different qualities are Earth, Water, Air, Fire? yet all combine together without the destruction of their enmity, that is as necessary to preserve nature as their friendship. Can there be imagin'd a greater discord in the parts of the Elementary World, and a greater concord in the whole? To reduce them to such an aequilibrium that all their operations promote the same end, proves that there is a Mind of the highest Wisdom, that has an absolute Dominion over all things, ⟨p. 27⟩and tempers them accordingly.
If we come to Plants and Flowers, Who divided their kinds, and formed them in that beautiful order? who painted and perfumed them? how doth the same Water dye them with various Colours, the Scarlet, the Purple, the Carnation? what causes the sweet Odours that breath from them with an insensible subtlety, and diffuse in the Air for our delight? from whence proceed their different virtues? These admirable works of Nature exceed the‖ imitation and comprehension of Man. 'Tis clear therefore they proceed from a Cause that excels him in Wisdom and Power. That some Plants of excellent virtue are full of prickles in their stock and leaves, to protect them from Beasts that would root them up,