The remaining discourses, on the attributes of God Viz. his Goodness. His mercy. His patience. His long-suffering. His power. His spirituality. His immensity. His eternity. His incomprehensibleness. God the first cause, and last end. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the seventh volume; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his Grace.

Title: The remaining discourses, on the attributes of God Viz. his Goodness. His mercy. His patience. His long-suffering. His power. His spirituality. His immensity. His eternity. His incomprehensibleness. God the first cause, and last end. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the seventh volume; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his Grace.

Author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.

Collection: Early English Books Online

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Answer. To give an account of this, it was an ancient Doctrine of some of the most ancient Nations, that there were two first Causes or Prin∣ciples of all things, the one of good things, the other of bad; which a∣mong the Persians were called Oro∣masdes and Arimanius; among the E∣gyptians Osiris and Typhon; among the Chaldeans good or bad Planets; among the Greeks, and ; and Plu∣tarch expresly says, That the good Prin∣ciple was called God, and the bad, De∣mon, or the Devil; in conformity to which ancient Traditions, the Mani∣chees (a sad Sect of Christians) set up two Principles, the one infinitely good, which they supposed to be the original cause of all good that is in the World; the other infinitely evil, to which they ascribed all the evils that are in the World.But besides that the Notion of an infinite Evil is a contradiction, it would be to no purpose to suppose two opposite Principles of equal pow∣er and force. That the very Notion of an infinite Evil is a contradiction, will be very clear, if we consider, that what is infinitely evil, must be infi∣nitely 0