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# Page Content Summary This is a page of running verse poetry from what appears to be an early modern religious text titled "Albions England" (visible at top, Chapter 67). The densely printed page contains argumentative verse in Early Modern English addressing atheism and Epicureanism. The text defends belief in God and the soul against philosophical skepticism, arguing that even pagan nations acknowledge deity through religion and ritual, and that reason itself—being invisible like wind and thought—demonstrates that invisible things (including God) can exist beyond human sight. The argument progresses through rhetorical questions about perception and knowledge to conclude that God's essence should be accepted by reason.
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7) pe dchaiens “ ALBIONS $ ENGLAND. : j This Atheit and that Epicure grant thou whome they offend. _ That I vnceele,and of my Verfe thy Glory be the end. -Yeat,Reafon,vrge not Scriptures but thy felfe and Nature now, To reache a God to thofe that God and Scriptures difallow. Of this then thus, from Phyfickes and Ethickes,Sages old Said Gods feale with hands,whereas no Eies can him beholde. Concluding that the Being oF the Soule isto confefie ADeitie,and fenfeleffe fuch as are in- fighted leffe. - Wasneuer Sage sPailofopher, Poet,or any Sect, my - Butin their Bookes and Precepts to a Gachead did direQ, oe Thou fenfuall Epicure,thy felfe gainfaifte it not for fhame : He ~ Yea, Atheift,in Extremeties,thou toucheft on his Name: a ~ So fenfeleffe none whofe Confeienceat a God doth neuer aime, -Vokindly though Nature it is defaced fo in fome, As that by often finning Sinne an haberte doth become. _ Such, flefhing then their wickednefle offend without Remorfe, _ And not to heare of God, leaft they fhould feare him,take a Corfe. Hencelattely comes to paffe(the Diuell fo temporizeth)they _ Suppofe they have no Soule,nor fhalbe ludge or Iudgment-day. » Howbeit,barbarous Nations ftore difcouered daily are That haue nor Houfes,Kings,nor Lawes,but wander wildly baer : Yeat none of thefe were euer found but(were it good or bad) Offome Religion, Orgies,Rites,and Sacrafife they had, | _ Whence allapprouesa Deitie acknowledg’d ever wheare ; _ And with our felues to haue bene borne that DoGrine doth appeate. - But for they fee not God,thinke fome,to thinke he is whatwitte2 Nor doth our Eie- fight {ee itfelfe,nor Soule that fighteth i ie _ How many Beings knoweth man which,knowne,he cannot fee > " ~ Howmany things within himfelfe, vnfeene, belecued be? (growe > ; “Who knowes not Plantes and Beaftes tohaue a foule whereby me | _ Who fees whear lies that foule? by fight it progrefle who doth knowe ?- _ Who fees the Winds?Nay Reafon yeelds for thoufand things in vew: ot _ Mans Reafon too is boddileffe : hold then Gods Effence ews? cs — conntkelooo antl - . at aoe <