item: #1 of 10
          id: A27428
      author: Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742.
       title: The folly and unreasonableness of atheism demonstrated from the advantage and pleasure of a religious life, the faculties of humane souls, the structure of animate bodies, & the origin and frame of the world : in eight sermons preached at the lecture founded by ... Robert BOyle, Esquire, in the first year MDCXCII / by Richard Bentley ...
        date: 1699
       words: 65931
      flesch: 55
     summary: Whereas now he receives a Fit of Sickness , as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the kind Chastisement and Discipline of his Heavenly Father , to wean his Affections from the World , where he is but as on a Journey ; and to fix his thoughts and desires on things above , where his Country and his Dwelling is : that where he hath placed his Treasure and Concerns , there his heart may be also . For example , if it should be required of all the Candidates of Glory and Immortality , to give a full and knowing Assent to such things as are repugnant to Common Sense , as contradict the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the universal Notions and indubitable Maxims of Reason ; if they were to believe , that One and the same Thing may be and not be at the same time and in the same respect ; If allowing the received Idea's and denominations of Numbers and Figures and Body , they must seriously affirm , that Two and two do make a Dozen , or that the Diameter of a Circle is as long as the Circumference , or that the same Body may be all of it in distant places at once .
    keywords: air; animals; atheist; atoms; bodies; body; chance; chaos; common; constitution; doth; earth; eternal; existence; frame; god; good; gravity; hath; heaven; humane; infinite; life; mankind; matter; men; motion; nature; particles; parts; past; planets; power; present; production; reason; religion; self; sense; soul; space; stars; sun; suppose; system; text; things; time; universal; wisdom; world
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: A28444
      author: Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.
       title: The oracles of reason ... in several letters to Mr. Hobbs and other persons of eminent quality and learning / by Char. Blount, Esq., Mr. Gildon and others.
        date: 1693
       words: 55183
      flesch: 55
     summary: As Nature cannot create , by making something out of Nothing ; so neither can it Annihilate , by turning Something into N●thing : I am not ignorant that they pretend their Severity against Heterodox Books ( that is , all that deviate from their Opinions ) is the Eff●ct of their Zeal for the Good of Mankind .
    keywords: account; adam; ages; angels; beginning; body; creation; day; days; death; earth; eve; garden; general; god; good; history; iews; infinite; law; laws; life; lord; man; mankind; manner; marriage; matter; men; mind; moses; nature; new; opinion; original; parts; people; place; reason; religion; rest; rivers; second; self; sir; soul; stars; state; subject; things; tho; thought; time; universe; use; viz; waters; wife; woman; words; world; years; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: A29845
      author: Browne, Peter, ca. 1666-1735.
       title: A letter in answer to a book entitled, Christianity not mysterious as also, to all those who set up for reason and evidence in opposition to revelation & mysteries / by Peter Browne ...
        date: 1697
       words: 41627
      flesch: 65
     summary: If God had requir'd us to give our ass●nt to what we knew nothing at all of , he would have requir'd Impossibilities ; if he had requir'd us to give our ass●nt to what we had no Proof or Evidence for , he wou'd have requir'd what was Unreasonable ; but when he adapts the Revelation of things which we cannot comprehend to our capacities , under the notions of things which we do apprehend clearly and fully , it is the greatest argument of his wisdom . And therefore it is that the Spirit of God in all his Revelations , hath made use , not only of the Words and Phrases commonly receiv'd and understood ; but likewise of those common notions in the minds of Men , of things in this World , to represent Truths , which are in respect of us now unconceivable ; and for which there are as yet no capacities in our nature .
    keywords: assent; book; evidence; faith; god; gospel; hath; idea; knowledg; man; men; mysteries; mystery; nature; notion; reason; religion; revelation; thing; thô; words; world; wou'd
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: A34907
      author: Craig, Mungo.
       title: A satyr against atheistical deism with the genuine character of a deist : to which is prefixt an account of Mr. Aikenhead's notions, who is now in prison for the same damnable apostacy / by Mungo Craig.
        date: 1696
       words: 5630
      flesch: 65
     summary: Shall this then be th' effect of Gospel Light ? To petrisy our Hearts and dim our Sight In Things of God ? if it be so , no less Than Famine , Sword , and Pestilent Distress I Prophesy : Neither by taking part With Delphos , Magick , or Star-gazing Art : God , Christ , Scripture and Piety , Let 's Eat and Drink , to Morrow must we dy .
    keywords: deist; eebo; english; god; hell; light; men; reason; self; tcp; text; vers; way; works
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: A43778
      author: Hill, Henry, 1643?-1707.
       title: A dialogue between Timotheus & Judas, concerning a pamphlet called, The growth of deism in England
        date: 1646
       words: 18060
      flesch: 69
     summary: To which he replied , The Monky , Sir , you know , pulled the Nut out of the Fire with the Cats Foot , but both the Action and Design was wholly the Monky's , and not the Cat 's ; and this Gentleman makes so many ugly Grimaces through his whole Pamphlet , against all Christian Churches , as well as that of England , that it is an easie Matter to see who was Master of this Movement . And as for his belonging to the Church of England , he may , Sir , said he , for all as I know , if you will allow Judas to belong to Jesus and the twelve , or Ascarides to belong to the Body of a Man.
    keywords: author; bishops; church; clergy; deism; deists; england; friend; god; good; judas; king; man; men; page; pray; religion; sir; tim; title; world
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: A52412
      author: Norris, John, 1657-1711.
       title: An account of reason & faith in relation to the mysteries of Christianity / by John Norris.
        date: 1697
       words: 64830
      flesch: 52
     summary: Of which he gives several Instances , which as not being to the Point , I pass over , and come to his other Consideration of things above Reason , meaning such as when proposed do surpass our Comprehension , and that ( as he well observes ) upon one or other of these three Accounts , either as not clearly Conceivable by our understanding , such as the Infiniteness of the Divine Nature , or as inexplicable by us , such as the Manner how God can Create a Rational Soul , or how this being an Immaterial Substance can act upon a Human Body , or be acted upon by it , &c. Or else lastly as Asymmetrical or unsociable , that is , such , as we see not how to reconcile with other things evidently and confessedly true , whereof he gives an instance in the Case of Prescience and Contingency . We believe 't is all well and right because the Infinitely Wise God sits at the Helm ; but then again , because he is so Infinitely Wise we cannot found the Depths of his Wisdom , ( as indeed it would be very strange if an Infinitely Wise Agent should not be able to do things Wisely , and yet beyond our Understanding ) nor reconcile all his particular proceedings to the Laws of Reason and Equity ; but the more we study about these things the more we are at a loss , the further we wade into this Sea the deeper we find it , till at last we find our selves obliged to cry out with the most inspired Apostle , O the Depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God , how unsearchable are his Iudgments , and his Ways past finding out !
    keywords: act; argument; assent; comprehend; contrary; divine; evidence; faith; general; god; good; ideas; incomprehensibility; incomprehensible; infinite; knowledge; light; man; measure; mysteries; nature; object; perception; principle; reason; religion; self; thing; truth; understanding; way
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: A55818
      author: Prideaux, Humphrey, 1648-1724.
       title: A discourse for the vindicating of Christianity from the charge of imposture Offer'd, by way of letter, to the consideration of the deists of the present age. By Humphrey Prideaux, D.D. and arch-deacon of Suffolk.
        date: 1697
       words: 40629
      flesch: 55
     summary: But that Enthusiasm could ever go so far , as to fansie a divine Revelation for the establishing of a new Religion , and upon such a fansie propagate that Religion in the World , as if it came from God , is that which I cannot believe ; and there is no instance , that I know of , that can be given hereof . For they allowing the matters of fact object that there are other Powers lower than the divine , that are able to bring them to pass ; and therefore , although those Works were wrought , they do not yet prove either the persons or the doctrines which they taught to come from God , and consequently can give no such evidence , as that which we insist upon from them for the truth of that Religion which we profess ; That others by Magick Art have done the same things ; That the Scriptures themselves tell us so of Jannes , and Jambres , and Simon Magus ; and profane Writers of Apollonius Tyanoeus , Apuleius , and others ; that both Moses and Jesus Christ knew this very well , and therefore forewarn'd their Disciples against it , telling them that false Prophets should arise , who should show signs and wonders to deceive , if possible , the very Elect ; and that they should take care not to hearken to them .
    keywords: apostles; authour; book; christ; christian; christianity; design; ebn; end; god; good; hath; history; holy; imposture; interest; jesus; jews; law; mahomet; man; manner; means; men; messias; miracles; nature; new; power; religion; saviour; thereto; things; truth; world
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: A55820
      author: Prideaux, Humphrey, 1648-1724.
       title: A letter to the Deists
        date: 1696
       words: 18767
      flesch: 62
     summary: But if , contrary to my expectation , any one of you , Gentlemen , to whom I have addressed this too tedious Letter , disagree with me ( after such Examination ) in what I have now at last particularly insisted upon ; I beg of you , by the Bonds of Humanity , in which we are all united , to assist me in shaking off what you esteem to be Delusion ; And to furnish me at the same time , instead of it , with some other more perfect Scheme of things ; More agreeable to the Ideas we have of God , and more conducive to the Happiness of Man. Not the Creator or Disposer of this Universal Frame of things , but the Effect of some Peculiar Disposition in it ; Posterior to Matter , and liable ( if not to Extinction ) at least to Inconstancy , Fluctuation , and Change.
    keywords: belief; body; contrary; degree; deists; deity; god; good; government; humane; laws; man; mankind; manner; matter; men; nature; necessity; principles; religion; self; sense; societies; society; thing; use; way; world
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: A57956
      author: Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703?
       title: A discourse of the use of reason in matters of religion shewing that Christianity contains nothing repugnant to right reason, against enthusiasts and deists / written in Latin by the Reverend Dr. Rust ; and translated into English, with annotations upon it by Hen. Hallywell.
        date: 1683
       words: 24355
      flesch: 47
     summary: But now the Intellectual Nature or Inner Man takes for its Object the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what ought to be done , being ruled and guided by the Counsels and Inspirations of Right Reason . To this purpose it is related by Huetius that among the Turks there are certain Boys , which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 believed of the common People to be Born of Virgins , and in great esteem , as supposed to do strange things :
    keywords: atque; aut; author; body; christian; christianity; church; contrary; cum; cùm; deo; deum; deus; discourse; doctrine; enim; esse; est; faculties; faith; fidem; flesh; god; good; hoc; humane; ita; life; man; mankind; men; mind; miracles; nature; nihil; nobis; non; num; pag; person; potest; power; principles; quae; quam; qui; quod; quàm; ratione; rationis; reason; religion; right; sed; self; sense; sit; sive; soul; spirit; sunt; tamen; tcp; text; things; truth; understanding; use; verò; way; wisdom; world
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: A62844
      author: Toland, John, 1670-1722.
       title: Christianity not mysterious, or, A treatise shewing that there is nothing in the Gospel contrary to reason, nor above it and that no Christian doctrine can be properly call'd a mystery / by John Toland.
        date: 1696
       words: 36665
      flesch: 66
     summary: But God the wife Creator of all , ( ever to be nam'd and thought upon with Reverence ) who has enabl'd us to perceive Things , and form Judgments of them , has also endu'd us with the Power of suspending our Judgments about whatever is uncertain , and of never assenting but to clear Perceptions . They impose upon themselves and others , who require Assent to things contradictory , because God , say they , can do all things , and it were limiting of his Power to affirm the contrary .
    keywords: authority; body; call'd; christ; christian; contrary; doctrines; evidence; faith; god; good; gospel; ideas; knowledg; man; men; mind; mysteries; mystery; nature; new; properties; reason; religion; revelation; scripture; self; sense; testament; things; tho; time; truth; understand; words; world
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