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Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Several discourses upon the existence and attributes of God by that late eminent minister in Christ, Mr. Stephen Charnocke ...
London: printed for D. Newman, 1682
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.
God hath given us Sense to behold the objects in the World, and Understanding to reason his Existence from them; the understanding cannot conceive a thing to have made it self; that is against all reason.* As they are made they speak out a Maker; and cannot ⟨p. 16⟩be a trick of chance, since they are made with such an immense Wisdom, that is too big for the grasp of all humane understanding. Those that doubt whither the Existence of God be an implanted Principle, yet agree that the effects in the world lead to a supreme and universal cause: And that if we have not the knowledge of it rooted in our Natures, yet we have it by discourse, since by all Masters of reason a Processus in Infinitum must be accounted impossible in subordinate causes.
God hath given us Sense to behold the objects in the World, and Understanding to reason his Existence from them; the understanding cannot conceive a thing to have made it self; that is against all reason.* As they are made they speak out a Maker; and cannot ⟨p. 16⟩be a trick of chance, since they are made with such an immense Wisdom, that is too big for the grasp of all humane understanding. Those that doubt whither the Existence of God be an implanted Principle, yet agree that the effects in the world lead to a supream and universal cause: And that if we have not the knowledge of it rooted in our Natures, yet we have it by discourse, since by all Masters of reason a Processus in Infinitum must be accounted impossible in subordinate causes.