. A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr. Henry More. imposd upon by Hijlory. Ithcrto I have infifted upon fuch Arguments forthe proving of the Exigence of God as were takenfrom the ordinary and known Phenomena of Na-ture; for fuch is theHiftory o^ Plants, Animalsand Man. I Ihall come now to fuch Effel^s difco-vered in the World as arc not deemed Natural,but Extraordinary and Miraculous. I do not meanunexpeded difcoveries ofMurthers, a confpi-cuous Vengeance upon ^roudand blafphemous Perfons, fuch as Nica-nor, Antiochus, Herod, and the like, of which all Hiftories, as well Sacred
. A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr. Henry More. imposd upon by Hijlory. Ithcrto I have infifted upon fuch Arguments forthe proving of the Exigence of God as were takenfrom the ordinary and known Phenomena of Na-ture; for fuch is theHiftory o^ Plants, Animalsand Man. I Ihall come now to fuch Effel^s difco-vered in the World as arc not deemed Natural,but Extraordinary and Miraculous. I do not meanunexpeded difcoveries ofMurthers, a confpi-cuous Vengeance upon ^roudand blafphemous Perfons, fuch as Nica-nor, Antiochus, Herod, and the like, of which all Hiftories, as well Sacredas Protane, are very full, and all which tend to the imprefling of this di-vine Precept in the Poet upon the minds of Men, Difcite ^uftitiam moniti ^ non temnere Divos,For though thcfe Examples cannot but move indifferent men to an ac-knowledgment of Divine Providence,zndz Superior Power above & diffe-rent from the Matter-, yet I having now to doe with the obftinate & refra-ftory/if/&«/j who, though an obdurate contemner of the Dm^^ finding himfelf. C H A p. I. Jn Antidote agatnfl Atheifm. %y hirafelf to befafe and wellateafe, will Hiuffle all thefe things oif, byasking fuch a Queftion as he diA to whom the Prieft of iV(r/?««f fhevved the many Bonaria hung up in his Temple by his Fotaries favcd fromfliip-wicck, and therefore vaunted much of the Power of that God of theSea 5 But n>hat is become of all thofe^ faid he, that netwithjlanding their Fows have been loft ? (o I fay, the Atheift to evade the force of this Ar-gument will whifper within himfelf, But hotv many proud blajphemous A-theiflical men^ like nty felf^ have efcapedj and thofe that have been accottnted good have died untimely deaths f Such as ^[of and Socrates^ the Prophets^ Afefiles and Martyrs^ withfundry other wife and good men in all Ages and Places, who yet beingnot fo well aware of the ill condition and reltinefs of this wicked World,of which they have truly profeftthemfelves no Citizens, but Strangers,ha
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