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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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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.
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 Desart, 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.
Use 1. Seeing there is a God, this reproves such Atheistical Fools as deny it. Epicurus denied that there was a Providence, saying, That all things fell out by Chance, Diagoras. He that saith there is no God, is the wickedest Creature that is, he is worse then a Thief, who doth but take away our Goods from us, but the Atheist would take away our God from us: Joh. 20. They have taken away my Lord. So we may say of Atheists, they would take away our God from us, in whom all our Hope and Comfort is laid up: