A Body of Practical Divinity

3. That there is a God, appears by the Consent of Nations, by the Universal ⟨p. 22⟩Vote and Suffrage of all. Nulla gens tam barbara cui non insideat haec persuasio Deum esset, Tully; No Nation so barbarous (saith Tully) as not to believe there is a God. Though the Heathen did mistake in their Devotion, they did not worship the true God, yet they worshipped a God. They set up an Altar [Greek or Hebrew], to the unknown God, Acts 17.22. They knew a God should be worshipped, though they knew not the God whom they worshipped. Some did worship Jupiter, some Neptune, some Mars: rather than not worship something, they would worship any thing.

3. That there is a God, appears by the Consent of Nations, by the Universal ⟨p. 22⟩Vote and Suffrage of all. Nulla gens tam barbara cui non insideat haec persuasio Deum esset, Tully; No Nation so barbarous (saith Tully) as not to believe there is a God. Though the Heathen did mistake in their Devotion, they did not worship the true God, yet they worshipped a God. They set up an Altar 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to the unknown God, Acts 17.22. They knew a God should be worshipped, though they knew not the God whom they worshipped. Some did worship Iupiter, some Neptune, some Mars: rather than not worship something, they would worship any thing.

4. That there is a God, appears by his Prediction of Future Things. He who can foretell things which shall surely come to pass, is the True God. God foretold that a Virgin should conceive, he prefixed the time when the Messiah should be cut off, Dan. 9.76. he foretold the Captivity of the Jews in Babylon, and who should be their Deliverer,