Volume 2

Of credulity and incredulity; in things divine and spiritual: wherein, (among other things) a true and faithful account is given of the Platonick philosophy, as it hath reference to Christianity: as also the business of witches and witchcraft. Against a late writer, fully argued and disputed. / By Merick Casaubon, D.D. and one of the prebends of Christ-Church, Canterbury.

  • Méric Casaubon
Date:
1670
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Credit: Of credulity and incredulity; in things divine and spiritual: wherein, (among other things) a true and faithful account is given of the Platonick philosophy, as it hath reference to Christianity: as also the business of witches and witchcraft. Against a late writer, fully argued and disputed. / By Merick Casaubon, D.D. and one of the prebends of Christ-Church, Canterbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ————e eS Ee Ee ee And Incredulity, &c. oe th) yernment ) and the determination of wifeft 0g | Philofophers; not to {peak of St. Pauls judge- oth | | ment, that 2 dieo]a wis xwiceass Gee. which rf | would be of no weight to fuch mifcreants ) +o | canbe perfwaded that thereis a God, Creator and of the world, c#c. which rather then beleeve, new they will believe either with Epicurus (then ufed nevis bumani, cujus aures hac ferve potuerunt : ) here that the world was made by a fortuic concourfe jy |. OF Atomes, or with others, more then half Epi- thal | cureans, that God endowing the Atomes with the power of Motion onely, it was as much as needed to bring forth fuch a world, without his farther care or intermedling, which opi- -t | ion, though it prefuppofeth a God, yet it ie | doth much abridge and obfcure his Providence, ned | Which was curled Epicurus his main defign. ONT yaa ; ; | _ Bat to the queftion propofed, though it may felves | feem to fome ftrange, or needlefs; yet certain ‘my | 20ds, that fome ancient Fathers of beft Worth (1 | and Fame, have fome paflages, which feem to mt | amport fo much, thatthe greateft myfteries of ; be | the Chriftian faith may be proved by Reafon. ‘nity | Sixties Senenfis doth obferve, that ir was one wihen of St Chtyfoftomes proper tenets, that the Di- » cle vinity of Chri might be proved againft all ‘otd,| Oppolers, Clarifime & fortifime, fine ullis Di- at vinarum Scripturarum teftimoniis: and St. Ay- guftine, befides the veftigia Trinitatis, which in