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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69226	A confutation of atheisme by Iohn Doue Doctor of Diuinitie. The contents are to be seene in the page following	Dove, John, 1560 or 61-1618.	1605 (1605)	STC 7078; ESTC S110103	85,385	102

A CONFVTATION OF ATHEISME By Iohn Doue Doctor of Diuinitie The Contents are to be seene in the Page following Psalm 68. God will arise and his enimies shall be scattered they also that hate him shall flye from him AT LONDON Printed by Edward Allde for Henry Rockett And are to be sold at the long shop vnder S. Mildreds Church in the Poultry 1605. The Contentes of this booke WHat Atheisme is Chapter 1. The cause of Atheisme Chap. 2. How Atheisme may be rooted out of all Christian landes Chap. 3. That there is a God Chap. 4. What God is Chap. 5. That there is but one God Chap. 6. The bookes of the Bible are the worde of God Chap. 7. Of the will and sufferance of God Chap. 8. The world had a beginning Chap. 9. The soule of man what it is whence it commeth how it is infected with sinne and the immortalitie of it Chap. 10. Of Noah his Arke and the Deluge Chap. 11. Of the destruction of Sodom Chap. 12. Of Christ Chap. 13. The world shall haue an end Chap. 14. There is hell fier C 〈…〉 TO THE MOST HIGH and Mightie Prince Iames by the grace of God King of Great Brittanye France and Ireland Defender of the Faith MOST dread Soueraigne your Maiesties gratious acceptance of my late Treatise against Recusancy causeth me to present vnto your Highnes this poore Mite which out of my penury I offer into the treasurye of the Church being no way comparable to the Talents which others out of their great plentye haue cast into the offrings of God Albeit the right worshipfull Sr. George More knight hath learnedly and religiouslie handled the same subiect yet may I tread the same wine-presse againe by the example of Saint Augustine which confuted the Arrians whome Athanasius had confuted before him and the learned of our age which dayly write bookes notwithstanding others before them haue written bookes of the same argument And as S. Augustine in his time because there were many haeretikes wished that all men which were able to write would write against haeresie so because now 〈◊〉 many Atheistes it is to be wished that many would write 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Atheisme The state of religion dependeth vpon the state of the Pastors and Ministers And therefore S. Iohn prophecying of the decay of it first discouereth the defects of them as the cause therof That he of Ephesus had lefte his former loue he of Pergamus had them which maintayned the doctrine of Balaam and the Nicholaitans he of Thyatira suffered Iezabell to make the people commit fornication and eat meate sacrificed to Idols he of Sardis had onely a name that he liued but was dead he of Laodicia was neither hotte nor colde but such a one as the Lord would spewe out of his mouth that he which tooke vpon him a greater charge then all they should haue onely hornes like the lambe Christ Iesus but as for his doctrine he should speake like the dragon Sathan And S. Paul prophecying of that great Apostasie and reuoliment from true religion through the world shewed the cause to be in him which tooke vpon him to be the vniuersall Pastor of the world That he should be an aduersaerie exalting him-selfe aboue all that is called God that sitting in the Temple of God he should not shew himselfe as the minister of God but as God The holy Ghost deriued the corruption of religion and calamitie of the Church of Israel from the base condition of the Priestes in the dayes of Ieroboam saying that he made Priestes of the lowest of the people And it is a curse denounced against them from God by the Prophet Malachye that their Priestes should be despised and vyle before the people Your Highnes vnder the Maiestie of Almightie God now sitteth in the seate of Dauid and vpon the throne of Salomen You haue the same authoritie ouer vs which Iosias Iosaphat Ezechias and the other Godlie Kinges had ouer Iuda The Lord therefore of his infinite mercie toward you his anoynted and vs your people continue in your Princely heart this your zeale of his house and great care of the aduancement of the state of the ministerie for the aduauncement of the Ghospell the increase of Godlines the subuersion of Atheisme and all Impietie The Lord make you such a King as Dauid was a man according to his owne heart that your Highnes may raigne ouer vs religiously peaceably happily to his glorie our comfort and the saluation of your owne soule The Lord graunt to our noble Queene that she may be an auncient Mother i● Is●●●●●… to Prince Henrie a large heart as he did vnto Salomon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 blesse all your posteritie that they way continue in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the worlds end Your MAIESTIES humble and obedient Subiect IOHN DOVE A CONFVTATION of Atheisme Chapter 1. What Atheisme is SOmetimes vnder the name of Atheists are comprehended Pagans Infidels and Idolaters all such as are ignorant of the true God albeit in their kinde they be very deuout religious and godly So saith the Apostle Wherefore remember that ye being in times past Gentiles in the flesh and called vncircumcision of them which are called circumcision in the flesh made with handes that ye were I say at that time without Christ aliants from the common wealth of Israel strangers from the couenant of promise and had no hope were without God in the world But what it was to be without God in the world he expresieth in an other place saying Euen then when ye knewe not God ye did se●●…ce vnto them which by nature are not Gods That is they worship the Sunne Moone and carued idols the creature in steede of the Creator which is blessed for euermore Amen These be not the Atheists which we are to treate of Other Atheists there be which haue a knowledge of the true 〈◊〉 and how he is to be worshiped and are in name Christians 〈◊〉 a continuall habit and custome of sinne haue so hardned 〈◊〉 ●…durated them selues that they haue no sence or feeling of the iudgement of that true God which they knowe and professe and would be thought outwardly to serue And therefore they are bolde to commit sinne against him because they presume vpon his mercye or at the least his conniuencye and negligence in punishing as if they were perswaded God did not see them or he would not punish them Of such saith the Prophet The foole hath said in his heart there is no God And of such fooles he speaketh else-where more plainly saying Wickednes saith to the wicked man euen in mine heart that there is no feare of God before his eyes And what it is to cast away all feare of God from before his eyes he sheweth more plainly saying He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hydeth away his face will neuer see And this kinde of Atheist is in state of damnation