1. Implied, that there is a God: The question, What is God? takes it for granted that there is a God: the belief of God's Essence is the Foundation of all Religious Worship, Heb. 11.6. He that comes to God must believe that he is [Greek or Hebrew]; there must be a first Cause which gives a Being and Existence to all things besides. We come to know that there is a God, 1. By the Book of Nature, the Notion of a Deity is engraven in Man's Heart, it is demonstrable by the Light of Nature; I think it hard for a Man to be a natural Atheist, he may wish there were no God, he may dispute against a Deity, but he cannot in his Judgment believe there is no God, unless by accumulated Sin his Conscience be seared, and he hath such a Lethargy upon him, that he hath sinned away his very Sense and Reason. 2. We come to know that there is a God by his Works; and this is so evident a Demonstration of a God-head, that the most Atheistical Spirits when they have considered these Works of God, have been forced to acknowledge some Wise and Supreme Power the Maker of these Things; as 'tis reported of Galen and others. 1. We will begin with the greater World, 1. The Creation of the glorious Fabric of Heaven and Earth; sure there must be some Architect or first Cause, the World could not make itself: Who could hang the Earth on Nothing, but the Great God? Who could provide such rich Furniture for the Heavens, the glorious Constellations, the Firmament bespangled with such glittering Lights? all this speaks a Deity. We may see God's Glory blazing in the Sun, twinkling in the Stars. Who could give the Earth its Clothing, cover it with Grass and Corn, adorn it with Flowers, enrich it with Gold, only God, Job 28.4. Who but God could make the sweet Music in the Heavens, cause the Angels to join in consort, and sound forth the Praises of their Maker? Job 38.7. When the morning-stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. If a Man should go into a far Country, and see stately Edifices there, he would never imagine that these could build themselves, but that some greater Power built them: To imagine that the Work of the Creation was not framed by God, is as if we should conceive a curious Landscape to be drawn by a Pencil without the Hand of a Limner: Acts 17.24. God that made the world, and all things therein. To Create is proper to a Deity. 2.
1. Implied, that there is a God: The question, What is God? takes it for granted that there is a God: the belief of God's Essence is the Foundation of all Religious Worship, Heb. 11.6. He that comes to God must believe that he is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; there must be a first Cause which gives a Being and Existence to all things besides. We come to know that there is a God, 1. By the Book of Nature, the Notion of a Deity is engraven in Man's Heart, it is demonstrable by the Light of Nature; I think it hard for a Man to be a natural Atheist, he may wish there were no God, he may dispute against a Deity, but he cannot in his Judgment believe there is no God, unless by accumulated Sin his Conscience be sear'd, and he hath such a Lethargy upon him, that he hath sinn'd away his very Sense and Reason. 2. We come to know that there is a God by his Works; and this is so evident a Demonstration of a God-head, that the most Atheistical Spirits when they have considered these Works of God, have been forced to acknowledge some Wise and Supream Power the Maker of these Things; as 'tis reported of Galen and others. 1. We will begin with the greater World, 1. The Creation of the glorious Fabrick of Heaven and Earth; sure there must be some Architect or first Cause, the World could not make itself: Who could hang the Earth on Nothing, but the Great God? Who could provide such rich Furniture for the Heavens, the glorious Constellations, the Firmament bespangled with such glittering Lights? all this speaks a Deity. We may see God's Glory blazing in the Sun, twinkling in the Stars. Who could give the Earth its Clothing, cover it with Grass and Corn, adorn it with Flowers, enrich it with Gold, only God, Iob 28.4. Who but God could make the sweet Musick in the Heavens, cause the Angels to joyn in consort, and sound forth the Praises of their Maker? Job 38.7. When the morning-stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. If a Man should go into a far Country, and see stately Edifices there, he would never imagine that these could build themselves, but that some greater Power built them: To imagine that the Work of the Creation was not framed by God, is as if we should conceive a curious Landskip to be drawn by a Pensil without the Hand of a Limner: Acts 17.24. God that made the world, and all things therein. To Create is proper to a Deity. 2.
