A85327:39
Faith in five fundamental principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheistical, blasphemous batteries of…Faith in five fundamentall principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheisticall, blasphemous batteries of…
Faith in five fundamental principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheistical, blasphemous batteries of these times Serving for the conviction of opposers, the satisfaction of doubters, and the confirmation of believers. In a conference which a godly independent minister and a godly Presbyterian minister had with a doubting Christian. By E.F. a seeker of the truth.Faith in five fundamentall principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheisticall, blasphemous batteries of these times Serving for the conviction of opposers, the satisfaction of doubters, and the confirmation of believers. In a conference which a godly independent minister and a godly Presbyterian minister had with a doubting Christian. By E.F. a seeker of the truth.
London: printed for John Wright, 1650
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But to speak a little more familiarly unto you, suppose that you should arrive amongst the Indians, and there find but some silly Cottage in the desolatest place thereof, would you not thereupon conclude with your self, surely this Land is inhabited, some man hath been here?
But to speak a little more familiarly unto you, suppose that you should arrive amongst the Indians, and there finde but some silly Cottage in the desolatest place thereof, would you not thereupon conclude with your self, surely this Land is inhabited, some man hath been here?
Christ. Yea indeed, Sir, for I could not think that it could make it self, neither could I think that it could be made by any ⟨p. 10⟩other creature then by man; and besides, I should therein see some tokens of mans wit, and therefore I must needs conclude that some man had been there.
Christ. Yea indeed, Sir, for I could not think that it could make it selfe, neither could I think that it could be made by any ⟨p. 10⟩other creature then by man; and besides, I should therein see some tokens of mans wit, and therefore I must needs conclude that some man had been there.
Ind. Now then consider, I beseech you, that there are in this world an hundred thousand things which could not make themselves, neither is it possible that they should be made by man, for here are many things which are impossible for man to know, and therefore impossible for him to make. For you know that he that makes a Clock or a Watch, or any such thing, must needs know all the wheels and all other parts thereof perfectly or else he could not make them; but many things there are in the world which no man knows, and therefore could never make them. Whereupon I beseech you to conclude, That some wiser workmaster then any man hath made them; and that is the same whom we call God. Again, suppose you should come into some well ordered family or house, and see all things done according to a complete order, though you did not see any man for the present that you did conceive were of years and discretion to do it, yet would not you conclude that some wise Governor that cast these things into this order had been there?