A guide to Christ. Or, The way of directing souls that are under the…

2. By removing those Objections that prove snares to him: If that be a snare to him, that we do not see God: He may be told, That we don't question many other things which we never saw. We doubt not that there are such Countries as France and Spain. Several things are invisible, as the Souls of Men, Angels and Devils, unless they affirm a Shape; yet we may be satisfied about these: There be other ways to satisfy us about the Existence of things, besides seeing of them. We know some things by reason, and some things by faith, Heb. 11.3. If that be a temptation to him, that others don't believe the Being of God, he can plainly perceive by the lives of men, that whatever they pretend, they do not really think that there is a God: He may be told, That though they are not fully persuaded, that there is a God, yet they cannot be fully persuaded that there is not a God; they have so much light that they cannot extinguish it; there is not a perfect Atheist in the World: Besides, Carnal men are led by their Corruptions, and their reason is very much darkened, and there is no weight to be laid upon their thoughts. Shall we think here be no Antipodes, because some ignorant men denied it? Shall we question the roundness ⟨p. 38⟩of the Earth, because some others think otherwise? We may not offer violence to our reason, because of the sottishness of other men. If that be a snare to him, to conceive how God can be of himself; how it is possible he should be, without being made: He may be told. That if that be above his reason to fathom, •e• that is not contrary to reason; as it is to think that a company of finite things, should be of themselves: Besides, if there are beings, there must of necessity be some First Being: If the rest be made, yet there must be one that was not made: To say that nothing was made, and to say that all things are made, are alike absurd; those things that are made could not have been, unless there were something that was not made; seeing many things have a being, there must be one of them that is of himself; they could not interchangeably make one another, but there is one who was not made, but is of himself, who is GOD.

2. By removing those Objections that prove snares to him: If that be a snare to him, that we do not see God: He may be told, That we don't question many other things which we never saw. We doubt not that there are such Countries as France and Spain. Several things are invisible, as the Souls of Men, Angels and Devils, unless they affirme a Shape; yet we may be satisfied about these: There be other ways to satisfie us about the Existence of things, besides seeing of them. We know some things by reason, and some things by faith,