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A51305	Letters on several subjects with several other letters : to which is added by the publisher two letters, one to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's, and the other to the Reverend Mr. Bentley : with other discourses / by Henry More ; publish'd by E. Elys.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1694 (1694)	Wing M2664; ESTC R27513	57,265	148

is God and the Holy Ghost is God and yet they are not three Gods but one God You say that you have demonstrated That tho three finite Spirits must needs be three different Substances yet it follows not that three infinite Minds must be so I answer You never did nor ever shall demonstrate but that it is the most palpable Contradiction that Words can express to say there are three infinite Minds or Spirits An infinite Spirit is a Being absolutely infinite To say then that there are three infinite Spirits is to say there are three Beings or Effences absolutely infinite that is there are THREE GODS I am Your Servant in the Vindication of the Truth E. E. To the Reverend Mr. RICHARD BENTLY Reverend SIR MY Reflections on the great Wit and Learning I find in your Sermons make me to hope That you will with all Christian Candor and Tranquility of Mind peruse the Animadversions I shall here present you on some part of your Sermon on Acts 17 27. p. 6. and 7. Such a radical Truth that God is springing up together with the Essence of the Soul and previous to all other Thoughts is not pretended to by Religion No such thing that I know of is affirmed or suggested by the Scriptures Animadv 'T is said expresly Genesis 1. 27. God created Man in his own Image Since God is a Spirit most certainly the principal part of Man must be a Spirit man being created in the Image of God in a peculiar manner made partaker of the Eternal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Image of the Invisible God So that the first Reflexion that Man makes on his own Being must carry him immediately to the perception of the Divine Being in which he lives and moves and has his Being unless his Intellect be obstructed in it's operation by the Pravity of his Will I wonder that you say no such thing is affirmed or suggested by the Scriptures I shall entreat you to consider these words of St. Basil Epist. 399. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ipsissima veritas Deus noster est Primum enim Principale Cognoscibile Deus est Agreeable hereunto are these words of that most excellent Metaphysitian Dr. Thomas Barlow late Bishop of Lincoln in his Fourth Exercitation the Second Edition pag. 125. Sicut impossibile est Tactum quam diu est Tactus non sentire Ignem esse Calidum si ei admoveatur cum illud sit objectum Tactus fortissimè motivum Sic dico Intellectus quam diu est Intellectus non potest non judicare Deum esse esse Colendum cum hoc sit objectum ejus Primarium fortissimè motivum cum sit Veritas Prima in Cordibus Inscripta firmissimè Radicata If this will not serve to convince you of your Error yet I hope you will not stand out against these plain words of the Holy Apostle Rom. 2. 15. speaking of the Gentiles Which shew the Work of the Law written in their Hearts Does not the Apostle mean the Law of God Can there be any innate Notion or natural Sense of the Law of God without any apprehension of this Truth that God is I hope you will not say again that no such thing that you know of is affirmed or suggested by the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament If our Apostle say you had asserted such an Anticipating Principle engraven upon our Souls before all Exercise of Reason what did he talk of seeking the Lord if haply they might feel after him and find him seeing that the knowledge of him was in that manner innate and perpetual there would be no occasion of seeking nor any hap or hazard in the finding Such an Inscription would be Self-evident without any Ratiocination or Study and could not fail constantly to exert its Energy in their minds Answ. The Holy Apostle in these words plainly shews That the way to find the LORD our GOD is not to conceive as Idolaters do that He is far from us but to consider that IN Him we live and move and have our Being viz. That the Divine Essence comprehends or eminently contains the life and every motion or operation and the nature or essence of every Man in the whole World and consequently the essence and operations of all other Creatures so that the LORD our GOD must be no other than a Being INFINITE in all Perfection And since he is IN ALL Creatures and in a peculiar manner in Rational Creatures it must needs follow That 't is impossible that any Rational Creature should not apprehend this Fountain of all Being in every Regular or Orderly Reflection it makes on it self or it s own Being Such an Inscription say you would be Self-evident without any Ratiocination or Study and could not fail constantly to exert its Energy in their Minds To this I Answer That it implyes a contradiction That it should be perceiv'd by the Soul without any Reflexion on it That there is such an Inscription on the Rational Soul you must at length grant unless you will deny that those words were written by Divine Inspiration which shew the Work of the Law written in their Hearts Not only the Admirable Structure of Animate Bodies and such other things as you speak of but every thing in the whole Creation shews the Existence of the one INFINITE Being That any Man is Atheistical proceeds only from the pravity of his Will perverting His Understanding Praesentem monstrat quae libet Herba DEUM I am unspeakably delighted with those words of the excellent Ingenious and Learned Malebranche De Inquirenda Veritate Lib. 4. Cap. 2. An difficile est agnoscere Deus existere Quicquid Deus fecit id probat Quicquid homines bruta faciunt idem etiam probat Quid plura Nihil est quod Existentiam Dei non probet aut saltem quod ingeniis attentis rerum omnium Authorem inquirentibus illam non possit probare I wish you all Happiness and remain Your Servant in the Love of the Truth EDMUND ELYS SIR I Humbly thank you for your Accumulation of Favours Your New Present comes only to put me in mind that I am your debtor for the first Quin fluctus in ipso fluctu I had scarce recover'd from your first when you pour out a new stream of Poetry and Rhetorick upon me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 't is confessedly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I had almost like the unhappy Bee drown'd my self in anothers Hony but that I found Finis before I wish't it And then I bethought my self That you had observ'd the Kings Rule Solomons I mean Has thou found Hony eat as much as is sufficient for you give it out by Doses and measure your pieces by Us that are to read them I have sent your Book to Mr. Boyle and can assure you That he received your Letters and had return'd you an Answer as his H. told me had he known how to have directed it to you

Pietatis exercitia au●●o●os Mores conferret plurimi fecit To adorn the Memory of such a Man as T. H. what is it but to provide that the Corps of one that dyed of the Plague may lye in state that People coming to behold it may contract the Infection If this Author go on to publish any more Books to as ill purposes as he has done this whatever height of Learning and Eloquence he may attain unto by the continuance of his Studies he will certainly deserve no better Character than that which was given by Velleius Paterculus to C. Curio Hist. lib. 2. Homo Ingeniosissimè Nequam Facundus Malo Publico Most just is the severity of the Censure past upon this most Infamous Writer by the most Reverend Archbishop of Armagh The catching of the Leviathan Chap. 1. Thus we have seen how the Hobbian Principles do destroy the Existence the Simplicity the Ubiquity Eternity and Infiniteness of God the Doctrin of the Blessed Trinity the Hypostatical Union the Kingly Sacerdotal and Prophetical Offices of Christ the Being and Operation of the Holy Ghost Heaven Hell Angels Devils the Immortality of the Soul the Catholick and all National Churches the Holy Scriptures Holy Orders the Holy Sacraments the whole Frame of Religion and the Worship of God the Laws of Nature the Reality of Goodness Justice Piety Honesty Conscience and all that is sacred I shall most earnestly entreat those young Students in Divinity who shall cast an Eye on these Papers that they would read all that has been written against T. H. by this most Renowned Archbishop and hy the Right Reverend Father in God the late Bishop of Salisbury and by the Reverend and Learned Dr. H. More Dr. Sharrock and Dr. Cumberland Other excellent Men have abundantly confuted his Wicked Errors but I have been chiefly conversant in the Writings of those I have here mention'd I cannot but recite a few Lines of my Lord Bishop of Salisbury's excellent Sermon concerning the Sinfulness Danger and Remedies of Infidelity which T. H. would not acknowledg to be a Sin The Author of the Leviathan Cap. 41. p. 286. tells us in plain terms That we do not read any where in the Scriptures that they which received not the Doctrin of Christ did therein sin And again That the Injunctions of Christ and his Apostles Men might refufe without Sin Now concerning this Assertion I cannot chuse but say that had I not been acquainted with the Works of that Author especially those relating to Religion I should exceedingly wonder at i● because it supposes Men never to look into their Bibles which is the thing it would perswade In the 21st of Matthew our Saviour asks the Iews this Question Did ye never read in the Scriptures such a thing A Question which I must repeat to the Asserters of this Doctrin Did they never read in the Scriptures the Sinfulness the Danger the Hainousness of Infidelity Surely he that runs may read it His Lordship 's Exercitatio in Thomae Hobbii Philosophiam printed at Oxford 1656. prov'd a most effectual Antidote against the Plague of the Hobbian Errors which at that time began to spread most dreadfully Since I had fitted these Animadversions for the Press there came to my Hands a Book entituled An Answer to a late Book publisht by Dr. Bramhal late Bishop of Derry called The Catching of the Leviathan I wish some Learned Man would publish a Reply to it to vindicate the Honour of that most renowned Prelate If the Charge I have brought against T. H. in these Animadversions be true that Monument of his Reputation which some may conceit to have been erected in this Book will most certainly in the Judgment of all Men fall to the Ground the weakness whereof in one particular I shall here demonstrate He affirms That Atheism is a Sin of Ignorance and he conceits that he sufficiently exposes the most Reverend Archbishop by this pitiful Sophism If it be not a Sin of Ignorance it must be a Sin of Malice Can a Man malice that which he thinks has no Being Answ. To have an Aversion to the Notion or Conception of a Being Infinite in all Perfection is to Malice or Hate GOD And such an Aversion is the grossest Atheism T. H. supposes that there is a GOD and from this Supposition it must needs follow whether he would have it so or no that all Rational Creatures are capable of the foresaid Notion So that an Aversion to it can proceed from no other Cause but only the Pravity of the Will perverting the Undertaking T. H. pretends to Believe the Holy Scriptures Now it is written This is the True Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World The True Light is GOD It is written God is Light If the True Light enlightneth every Man that cometh into the World Atheism is not only the Not Seeing of Him but an Aversion to Him no Sin of Ignorance but of Malice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I shall not make any other Apology for the sharpness of my Stile but this That it is not enough not to Consent to the Hobbian Errors but we must Hate them with a perfect Hatred I have no more to do at present but only to recite those words of the blessed Psalmist with reference to every one of the Disciples of this most Impious Sophister which I us'd in public with reference to him not long before his death Arise O God maintain thine own cause remember how the foolish men blasphemeth thee daily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 EPITAPHIUM R. SH LL. Doctoris Hic Iacent Reliquiae Viri Incomparabilis Roberti Sharrock Qui Iacentem Suscitavit Philosophiam Practicam Atheismum Triumphantem Debellavit HOBBII SPINOSAe caeterorum Ejusdem furfuris homuncionum Placita Specie quâdam Eruditionis insignis ostentata Quam sint Stolida quam Improba Clarissime Demonstravit Virtutum Vitiorum omnium Veras ac Vivas Effigies depingens Horum Odia Illarum Amores In Animis Prudentium Lectorum Flagrantissimos Accendit Striptis Varii Argumenti Elaboratissimis Usque ad Consummationem Seculi Apud Doctos Pios permansuris Famae Suae Exegit Monumentum Aere perennius Clarissimi Viri Domini GEORGII MACKENZI Epitaphium A. D. 1691. Ingenio Magno ac Verâ Pietate refulget Illius Egregii Candida Fama Viri Cum nihil Hic fuerit Quo se ingens flamma foveret Ignea Mens Terras linquit Astra Petit. A LETTER to the Author of a Pamphlet Entituled The Doctrine of the Trinity Placed in its due Light Non eloquimur magna sed vivimus SIR THO I acknowledge That you deserve the Character of a Person Ingenious and Learned yet since you deny the Catholic Faith whilst you pretend to be a True Son of the Church of England I must say you do not deserve the Name of an Honest Man I doubt not but any Learned and Impartial Reader that believes the Holy Scriptures were written by