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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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5. That there is a God, appears by God's unlimited Power and Sovereignty. He who can work, and none hinder him, is the True God; but God can do so, Isa. 43.13. I will work, and who shall let it. Nothing can hinder Action but some Superior Power; but there is no Power above God; all Power that is, is by him, therefore all Power is under him: he hath a mighty Arm, Psal. 89.13. He sees the Designs Men drive on against him, and plucks off their Chariot Wheels; he maketh Diviners mad, Isa. 44.25. he cutteth off the Spirit of Princes: He bridleth the Sea, gives check to the Leviathan, binds the Devils in Cains; he acts pro arbitrio, he doth what he will, I will work, and who shall let it.
5. That there is a God, appears by God's unlimited Power and Soveraignty. He who can work, and none hinder him, is the True God; but God can do so, Isa. 43.13. I will work, and who shall let it. Nothing can hinder Action but some Superiour Power; but there is no Power above God; all Power that is, is by him, therefore all Power is under him: he hath a mighty Arm, Psal. 89.13. He sees the Designs Men drive on against him, and plucks off their Chariot Wheels; he maketh Diviners mad, Isa. 44.25. he cutteth off the Spirit of Princes: He bridleth the Sea, gives check to the Leviathan, binds the Devils in Cains; he acts pro arbitrio, he doth what he will, I will work, and who shall let it.
6. There are Devils, therefore there is a God. Atheists cannot deny but there are Devils, and then they must grant there is a God. We read of divers possessed with the Devil. The Devils are called in Scripture, Cashegnirini, Hairy ones, because they oft appeared in the form of Goats or Satyrs. Gerson in his Book De probatione Spirituum, tells us how Satan on a time appeared to an holy Man in a most glorious manner, professing himself to be Christ; the old Man answered, I desire not to see my Saviour here in this Desert, it shall suffice me to see him in Heaven. Now if there be a Devil, then there is a God. Socrates an Heathen, when he was accused at his Death, confessed that, as he thought there was a malus genius, an Evil Spirit, so he thought there was a Good.