A26869:137
The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed
The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed, or, Proud ignorance the cause of infidelity, and of mens quarrelling with the word of God
London: printed by T.N. for Tho. Underhil, 1655
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.
O••. 8. Is it • likely thing that the Red-Sea should […] for the Israelites to pass through? Or that […] should stand still in Joshua's time: and not […] be over tu•ned by it? Or that Jonah ⟨p. 73⟩should live without air in the belly of a Whale? Or •ot be digested in his belly as other food is? How •an these things be?
O••. 8. Is it • likely thing that the Red-Sea should 〈…〉 for the Israelites to pass through? Or that 〈…〉 should stand still in Joshuahs time: and not 〈…〉 be over tu•ned by it? Or that Jonas ⟨p. 73⟩should live without ayre in the belly of a Whale? Or •ot be digested in his belly as other food is? How •an these things be?
Answ And what, must God do none but likely things? Is it not as easy with him to do all •his, as for you to move a finger, and much more? •s it not as easy to make the water stand still as •ove; or to gather it on heaps in the Sea, as to gather it into the Sea from the rest of the earth, nd to keep its course in ebbing and flowing? And s it not as easy to cause the Sun to stand still as to move? And so to move as it is supposed to do? f the Sun had used to stand still, would you not have taken it for as incredible a matter that it should move? And have said as unbelievingly, How can this be? And for the disordering of Nature, it was Sun and Moon with all the moveable frame that stood still together; and not the Sun alone: And so made no such alteration as is imagined, it must have done.