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* 1.1His second seed is ignorance of second Causes, a most un∣happy and unreasonable speech. Ignorance the Mother of Religion; Ignorance of second Causes cannot make a
Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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- Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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man acknowledge the first, Rom. 1.20. S. Paul saith, The Invisible things of Him (that is, of God) from the Creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal Power and God∣head. This understanding of eternal Power and Godhead is the foundation and ground of Religion, and this was visible, although not in its self, yet in the things that are made, the second Causes; so that not the ignorance, but the knowledge of the second Causes, like Iacobs ladder, leads, us from one to another, step by step, until we ascend to the highest and first Cause. This he himself acknowledgeth before; but as he often doth, so he now forgot what he had said. Ignorance of second Causes that they are second, and mistaking them for first may make a man think them Gods, and so turne a Religion to them; but, as may ap∣pear at the bottome of the preceding Page 53. he un∣derstands the Ignorance of the Causation of second Causes, which, without doubt, is so farre from bringing in Reli∣gion, that it is apt to produce Atheism, and an opinion, that the world is governed by chance▪ not by Providence: So that, as for his first, I deny it to be a Seed of Religi∣on, that is, the opinion of Ghosts; so for this Second, the Ignorance of second Causes, I affirm that is an enemy to Religion, stopping the Soul from ascending up to Hea∣ven, by breaking the lowest step of that Ladder which is fixed on Earth.
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Ignorance of second causes apter to pro∣duce Atheisme then Religion.