Provifions for it by frequent Rotations. 198 Things obfervable in thofe Moons. Chap. VIII. The Conclufion in behalf of the 213, &c. Chap. IV. Lactantius's Argument against the Divinity of the Heathen Gods. 235 A Pre- HE Pfalmift faith, (a) T publickly declareth, tel leth forth, or preacheth his Handy Work, as the Hebrew Word fignifies: (a) Pfal. 19. 1, 2, 3. B that (a) that Day unto Day uttereth Speech, and Night unto Night fheweth, or tells forth, Knowledge. Which Language of the Heavens is fo plain, and their Characters so legible, that all, even the most barbarous Nations, that have no Skill either in Languages or Letters, are able to understand, and read what they proclaim. There is no Speech nor Language where their Voice is not heard : their Line is gone out through all the Earth, and their Words to the End of the World. That this Obfervation of the Pfalmift is agreeable to Experience, is manifeft from the Deductions which all Nations have made from God's Works, particularly from those of the Heavens; namely, that there (a) fignificat aliquid verbis efferre, coràm nuntiare, annunciare. Conrad. Kircher, Concord. Col. 226. Vol. 2. It is derived from 3 Coram, Ante. is is a GOD; and that fuch as have pretended to Atheism, and have deduced God's Works from Chance, &c. are fingular and monftrous in their Opinions. Thus faith Ælian, (a) There never was any Barbarian, that contemned the Deity, nor called in question whether there be any Gods or no? or whether they take care of human affairs? No Man, neitheir Indian, nor Celt, nor Egyptian ever entertained any fuch Thought, as Eumerus, the Meffenian, or Dionyfius the Phrygian, or Hippo, or Diagoras, or Socias, or Epicurus. So one of Plato's Arguments for the Proof of a God, is (b) The unanimous Confent of all, both Greeks and Barbarians, who confefs there are Gods. And Plutarch (c) agreeable to what our Pfalmift affirms, tells us whence they (a) De var. Hift. L. 2. cap. 31. (b) De Legibus, L. 10. De Placit. Philof. L. 1. c. 6.. |