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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55567	A sanctuary for the tempted: being a discourse on Christ's friendly admonition to Peter Wherein the fall and rising of Peter, is at large considered: the craft, potency, and malice of Satan (that arch-enemy of our salvation) discovered: his various wiles. stratagems and machinations invalidated: several choice and excellent Gospel-truths handled, and cleared (from the calumnies and objections of gainsayers.) ... Delivered in sundry sermons, at first; and now, published for the benefit of God's church in general. To which is added, four sermons, preach'd upon sacramental occasions. By Thomas Powel, preacher of the Gospel, and one, whom Satan hath winnowed.	Powell, Thomas.	1679 (1679)	Wing P3075; ESTC R30536	152,491	435

God shew that ther●… is a God Rom 1. 20 When we see a stately House although we see not the Man that Built it although also we know not the Time when it was Built yet conclude n●… otherwise we can but that som●… Wise Artificier had a hand in it Th●… House surely say we did not Buil●… it self And therefore when we take a View of the Theatre of Heaven and Earth we conclude That surely the Finger of God has been there Is not every Creature in Heaven and Earth a loud Preacher of this Everlasting Truth And doth not Man the Microcosm or Little World shew that there is a God Could any make a Man but One Wiser and Greater than Man Who taught the Birds to Build their Nests and the Bees to make a Common-Wealth What Power of Man or Angels can make one Pile of Grass or put Life into the least Flie if once Dead All which demonstrates the Being of a God But because this Infinite Being cannot be demonstrated unto Sense therefore the Atheist is so Impudent as he is because he cannot Digito monstrari dicier hic est Point at him with our Fingers c. Is not this Irrational that Sense should be made the only Umpire of all kinds of Beings Must not all Intellectual Beings be proscribed out of the Order of Nature because they cannot pass the Scrutiny of Sense Then will not Colours by the same Reason be dash'd out because they cannot be heard all Noises silenced because they cannot be seen The Second pretended Ground of Atheism is this Behold saith the Devil whether this can stand together viz. Three Persons Distinct in Subsistence but One in Substance Being or Essence and not divided into Divers Essences Natures or Parts This is against Reason and though it is yet thou must believe it if thou believest that God is Answ. This the Soul may say is not against Reason but it is above Reason We cannot by the Light of Nature saith one know the Mystery of the Trinity nor the Incarnation of Iesus Christ. But when by Faith we receive this Doctrine we may illustrate it by Reason As the Sun begetteth his own Beams and from thence proceeds Light and Heat and yet there is none of them before another otherwise than in respect of Order and Relation that is to say That the Beams are begotten of the Body of the Sun and the Light and Heat proceedeth from both So likewise from one Flame of Fire proceed both Light and Heat and yet but one Fire Again In Waters there is the Well-Head and the Spring boyling out of it and the Streams flowing from them both and all these are but one Water And so there are Three Persons in One Godhead yet but One God Lastly In Man the Understanding cometh from the Soul and the Will from both The Third pretended Ground of Atheism is this Nay this is not all saith the Evil One there is another Absurdity in your Deity and that is this If thou believest that there is a God thou must believe also that he is from Eternity and to Eternity i. e. One who has neither Beginning nor Ending This is owned by all that profess your Deity viz. Eternity as that which necessarily pertains unto Him as God which to me is so strange wonderful and above Reason as that I cannot but call it in question and therefore necessarily the Being whereof it is predicated What say'st thou O Soul concerning this Answ. To this the Soul may reply Avoyd Satan for who art thou that chargest the Holy One with Folly and the Great God of Heaven and Earth with Absurdity Know therefore that to believe what thou say'st is the greatest Folly in the World Because thou art a Lyar and the Truth is not in thee But to believe that God is Eternal is the greatest Reason in the World because He who is Truth it self hath said so 1 Tim. 1. 17. Isa. 41. 4. and 44. 6. Psal. 90. 2. Rev. 6. 11. The Fourth pretended Ground of Atheism is this Oh! saith Satan this is not all For if thou believest that there is a God thou must then believe that he is Unchangeable In Contradicting of which there needs no other Instances than these which follow wherein his Changeableness doth very much appear Instance I. That God is Changeable saith the Devil may appear in that he was made Man Confutation This the Soul may Confute by answering Satan after this manner That God became Man was not by any Conversion or Change of the Divinity but by the Assumption o●… the Humanity Instance II. If God alters not his Mind why 〈◊〉 he said to Repent Confutation Repentance is Attributed to God in Scripture but not to signifie any Mutation or Change in his Nature only in his Actions God is said to Repent not because he Changeth but because he doth as we do when we Repent And now what is it that we do when we Repent Why we cease to do what we did and destroy what we formerly made And upon this score God is said to Repent not that he doth so Repent as to Change his Mind but because he altereth his Works and thereby doth but fulfil what he long ago determined Instance III. There are many things Threatned and Promised by God in his Word that do never come to pass which cannot be any otherwise but a very great Impeachment to his Unchangeableness Confutation The Threatnings and Promises of God considered as not Absolute but Conditional the Condition whereof being answered the Non-Accomplishment or Execution of the same doth not make any Change in God And thus you see these Instances that Satan has brought whereby to prove God's Mutability made Insignificant He who would see more of God's Unchangeableness Prov'd Clear'd and Open'd let him peruse Excellent Mr. Pearces Book Entituled A Beam of Divine Glory The Fifth pretended Ground of Atheism is this This is not all saith Satan for if you believe that there is a God you must also believe him to be Omnipresent that is Every where at once And how can it be Answ. That there is a General Presence of God nothing is more evident Whither shall I flee from thy Presence saith David Psal. 139. 7. Nothing is impossible with God and therefore that he is Essentially Every where is not Impossible Ier. 23. 24. Can any hide himself in secret Places that I should not see him saith the Lord Do not I fill Heaven and Earth saith the Lord. Prov. 15. 3. The Eyes of ●…he Lord are in Every Place beholding ●…he Evil and the Good These with many others do make ●…od's Omnipresence and Omniscience ve●…y Conspicuous The Sixth and Last pretended Ground of Atheism is this This is not all saith Satan for if ●…ou believe there is a God you must al●…o believe him to be Omnipotent i. e. One who can do all