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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	believe_v	faith_n	life_n	1,326	5	4.7838	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33772	The darkness of atheisme expelled by the light of nature, or, The existence of a deity, and his creation and government of the world demonstrated from reason and the light of nature only : with an appendix touching the most proper method of preaching the Gospel among the heathens / Englished by H.C.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1683 (1683)	Wing C509; ESTC R7365	19,687	134

The Darkness of ATHEISME Expelled by the LIGHT of NATURE OR The EXISTENCE of a DEITY AND His Creation and Government OF THE WORLD Demonstrated from Reason and the Light of Nature only With an Appendix touching the most proper Method of Preaching the Gospel among the Heathens Englished by H. C. Animis non Auribus Nullus in Inferno est Atheos ante fuit London Printed for D. Brown at the Black-Swan without Temple-barr and T. Benskin in St. Brides-Church-yard 1683. Quisquis profundâ mente vestigat verum ●upitque nullis ile devijs falli In se revolvat intimi Lucem visûs Longòsque in Orbem cogat inflectens motus Animùmque doceat quicquid extra molitur Suis Retrorsum possidere Thesauris Quod atra dudum texit erroris nubes Lucebit ipso perspicacius Phaebo Boet. de Consol Philos Lib. ● Metr Who e're profoundly searches after truth And would not be miss-led by stragling paths Let him turn on himself his inmost eye And bend into a Ring his ranging thoughts Making his Soul see what she seeks abroad In her own native Treasures stor'd up lies Then what errors black Cloud did hide will soon Shine clearer than the Sun it self at Noon TO THE READER THe publishing a Book to prove the Existence of a Deity amongst People that have all Inrolled themselves Christians at the Font may possibly be thought unnecessary but it must be only such as are strangers to this unhappy Age of ours where it is esteem'd by too many a piece of wit to be Prophane and all things sacred have been made objects of Scoff Drollery wherein Atheists have appeared broad-faced and with a prodigious impudence defied Heaven in the sight of the Sun undertaking to dispute Divinity out of the World by Reason and levying Arguments against that Power which gave them Being how requisite then it is now to shew the abused World that these Godless ones have all this while committed a Rape on their own Reason who freely of her self would they but hear her speak leads them directly to the knowledge of a Deity Nor is it only these open Ranters that we are to combate there is a sort of secret demure Atheists who verbally acknowledge a Deity and perhaps make the most zealous pretensions of Religion too but Hearts being not really possest with a firm belief and stable apprehension of a most Just and Holy Power that being ever present takes an Account of and will one day severely judge all their Actions They thereupon give no other Check to their exorbitant Lusts than what external or politick respects may Bridle them in with whence proceeds that Innundation of wickedness that at this day overwhelms the World and though these last may hypocritically Counterfeit a veneration of the holy Scriptures there is only this difference between them and the other Crew that whereas the others disclaim all regard to those sacred Oracles these pretend to believe them but really do not To meet with them both we recommend this brief Treatise to publick view which not with flourishes of Rhetorick or mustering up Authorities Fathers Philosophers c. But meerly by Natures Light and in an undeniable Mathematical Method evinces the existences of a Deity which once firmly and unfeignedly believed with the necessary consequences thereof would very much stop the Torrent of Impiety in Mens Lives and prepare them for the reception of and obedience to other Articles of the Christian Faith and Gospel Duties The main part of it is an Arrow borrowed from the great Morinus his quiver He that was lately Royal Professor of Mathematicks when he first sent it abroad in its Roman Dress 't was welcomed with the applauses of the Sorbon and general approbation of the learned World for its perspicuous Brevity Orthodoxness and close Cogent Method of arguing What entertainment it may meet with in this courser English Garb I cannot Divine yet dare venture to say that whoever shall Seriously and Understandingly read it over cannot but confess a Deity or disown his Reason and must acknowledge a God unless he will deny himself to be Man If it prove in the least useful to reduce any to their Allegiance to their Soveraign Creator I shall esteem my pains most advantageously laid out in the Translation and therefore conclude with imploring his Infinite Majesty that he would by commanding a Blessing to attend it render it Effectual to that desired end ADVERTISEMENT BY Dan. Brown next door to the Sign of the Queens Head without Temple-Bar You may be furnish'd with most sorts of Plays both New and Old to be sold or lent to read Where you may be also furnished with all sorts of Stationary Wares As Indentures Recoveries Blanck-Bonds and Blanck-Writs of all sorts Paper-Books c. Writings fairly Ingrossed and Copied and the Best Ink for Recoveries or Records THE PREFACE OR INTRODUCTION HOW spreading and Epidemical the Contagion of Atheism is grown of late there are few so happy as to be ignorant That the same not only strikes at the Root of all Religion but takes away all sense of Good and Evil all Trust and Obligations amongst Men and consequently is most destructive to humane Society and Government is no less evident To put some stop to this fatal Torrent which thus threatens all things sacred and civil with a Deluge not a few have attempted with endeavours no less laudable than laborious Yet scarce attaining that success as was wished by reason of their not proceeding in such a Method of Proof as the Adversaries who must be allowed to choose their Weapons or they will never acknowledge themselves vanquished have thought fit to expect for their Conviction The authority of sacred Scriptures which pious Souls devoutly reverence They Impudently deny The sense all Nations have of a Deity they alledge is only a general cheat and a melancholy Fancy blown into credulous heads by subtile Polititions The Beauty and Harmony of the world they 'l tell you is only caused by the curious motion of Dancing Atoms or the apt yet fortuitous concurrence of Actives with Passives In brief for who without horrour can relate their Blasphemies whatever you offer of that kind they evade yet still pretend highly to Reason and intimate they would be satisfyed could they but meet with such Demonstrations might be necessarily conclusive to their Understandings and enforce their Assent And certainly the goodness and Infinite Mercy of God ever legible in all his dealings with Mankind doth most illustriously display it self in this That even when they not only like desperate Traytors renounce all Allegiance to Him but deny his very Essence from whence they received their own Yet still he affords them Natures Light and deprives them not of those common Principles which if seriously consulted are able to reduce them from their horrid Phrensie and evidently demonstrate the Existence of a Deity that Created the World and continually Governs it by his Providence and whom to acknowledge Love