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A53952 A discourse concerning the existence of God by Edward Pelling ... Pelling, Edward, d. 1718. 1696 (1696) Wing P1078; ESTC R21624 169,467 442

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Mental Discourse As for Example Though we discern not our own Souls nor can behold them with our Eyes yet in regard that we think and meditate and reason in our selves we strongly conclude that they are Beings actually existing because it is most certain that what is not cannot operate In like manner though the Being of God be quite out of the Ken of our corporeal Senses yet considering what bright manifestations there are in the World of wonderful Goodness Power and Wisdom we rightly infer That it was framed by a Supreme Being of the most adorable and excellent Perfections And so it is in innumerable other Instances though there are ten thousand things in Nature whose Contextures are not subject to the Cognizance of our Senses yet by arguing either à priori from the manifest Cause to the Effect or à posteriori from the manifest Effect to the Cause we proceed to satisfactory Inferences because if this thing be granted then according to the common Principles of Reason that thing will follow This is to Reason and Argue and to Discourse in our Minds and it is a Faculty whereof the Souls of Irrational Creatures are not capable because sine and close reasoning is vastly above bare and naked Sensation It requires strong Meditation great rowling of Thoughts and a firm linking of Notions to Notions in a Chain so that Rational Premises may fairly and regularly draw on Rational Conclusions All which Brute Creatures can no more do than they can study Philosophy or understand Books of Metaphysicks and Logick 4. Fourthly We feel in our selves a power of directing us in all our Moral Actions and of reflecting upon our Actions after they are done and this we call Conscience meaning the Judgment of a Man as it relates to the practice of Vertue and Honesty There are some Actions which are unchangeably good and others which are immutably Evil Their Natures are so utterly opposite that it is as impossible to make Vice Vertue or Vertue Vice as it is to reconcile Light and Darkness The Notions of such things every one does carry in himself nor is any Soul of Man so void and destitute of them but that the most unpolisht and barbarous People understand in some measure what is Right and Just Accordingly we find something within us which before an Action is done tells us secretly what is necessary sit and proper for us to do And when our unreasonable Inclinations and Passions carry us on to do that which is contrary to those good Dictates we find something within us that doth reprehend and blame and fly upon us and many times doth wound us so that we are very sore and our Minds are full of great Anguish and Torment To which purpose are those Words of St. Paul Rom. 2. 14 15. where speaking of the Gentiles he faith That though they had not the Law written in two Tables as the Jews had yet they did by nature the things contain'd in the law and having not the law were a law unto themselves Which shew'd the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts among themselves either accusing or else exausing one another Now this Faculty of governing and regulating all our Moral Actions and of passing Sentence upon them is an excellence of the Rational Soul which cannot be pretended to be in any Animals which are purely Sensitive how sagacious soever they appear because Actions natural are the highest they can go to As for the Rules of Sobriety Righteousness and Godliness they are wholly destitute of them as destitute as a Stone is of Sense or as a Plant is of Reason And hence it is that their Souls are mortal Whether they be altogether material or so necestarily depending upon Matter that they cannot subsist without a Body I will not now dispute No question but they perish with their Bodies For having no Law of Morality to act by they cannot be accountable either for Obedience or Transgression and so cannot be supposed to survive because they are uncapable either of Reward or Punishment in another World as being without all Power of Reflecting and consequently of having any Joys or Remorse of Mind in this To conclude this Consideration Besides a Principle of Life a Power of Sensation and a Faculty of retaining Idea's which spring from things without us we find in our selves such high and exquisite Powers that supposing a Being Angelical and next to a Deity was to have been form'd on purpose that it should be invested with Humane Flesh there to display the great Glories of its Nature we cannot conceive how a Being could have been made more like to an Angel than the Rational Soul is A Being that is able to search into the Secrets of Nature and into the invisible things of God to entertain it self with lofty Contemplations to discover recondite mysterious Truths to open the Treasures of Philosophy to fill the World with Histories of things past and to foresee things to come things which naturally must or probably may happen to know all that a Finite Creature is well capable of knowing to set out the just Boundaries between Good and Evil to inform the World how far they may honourably and safely go and what they are at their Peril to avoid to employ Mankind in the most curious Arts to furnish them with the most delightful and useful Sciences to give measures to all States and Princes to prescribe to all Societies the truest Methods for their Preservation and Welfare to shew them what noble Ends they are to pursue and what are the wisest and best means of bringing those Ends to pass to fit Men for the greatest and most generous Undertakings and to make them Men of Renown to inspire them with laudable Ambition and upon animating Hopes to found glorious Atchievements and to erect the Fortunes of Kingdoms to make us aspire towards the highest and most excellent Enjoyments In short to help us to do all the great things that can be done by mortal Creatures here and in the midst of our Labours under the Sun to shew us a Glimpse of another World and to sit us for a Blessed and Eternal State in it 2. These are the noble Powers of the Rational Soul and hence I argue in the Second place that this Excellence of it is a manifestation of the Existence of a God because these high Endowments and Faculties could not be derived from the casual Modifications of Dead and Senseless Matter but from the Agency of an intelligent Cause that is eminently and absolutely Perfect For it is a certain Principle of Reason That there cannot be more in the Effect than there is in the Cause If there could be more it would follow that Something can come of it self out of Nothing which is impossible Defect of Power in an Agent is a Non-Entity a want of Being a Privation an incapacity an utter Nothing Nor is it conceivable how any
it self At present I shall conclude with a devout Hymn out of the Writings of the Holy Psalmist who considering the transcendent Greatness of God's Majesty the Glory of his Nature the Variety of his Works and his stupendious Wisdom Power and Goodness throughout all summon'd the whole World to join with him in the Adoration of their great and only Creator O praise the Lord of heaven praise him in the height ... Praise him all ye angels of his praise him all his host Praise him sun and moon praise him all ye stars and light Praise him all ye heavens and ye water that are above the heavens Let them praise the name of the Lord for he spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created He hath made them fast for ever and ever he hath given them a law which shall not be broken Praise the Lord upon earth ye dragons and all deeps Fire and hail snow and vapours wind and storm fulfilling his word Mountains and all hills fruitful trees and all cedars Beasts and all cattel worms and feathered fowls Kings of the earth and all people princes and all judges of the world Young men and maidens old men and children praise the name of the Lord for his name only is excellent and his praise above heaven and earth Psalm 148. O speak good of the Lord all ye works of his in all places of his dominion Praise thou the Lord O my soul Psalm 103. 22. 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