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This is a page of running prose poetry from *Albions England*, a historical verse narrative. The text presents philosophical and theological arguments about the nature of God, the human mind, and divine creation. It argues that the human soul and understanding must derive from a heavenly source, that planets and elements are not self-governing but require a higher divine mind, and that all of nature testifies to God's existence. The passage concludes by dismissing polytheism and cautioning against infidelity. Chapter LXXVII begins at the bottom of the page with a speaker addressing the reader about belief in multiple gods.
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» tie Se ee - = aw S "= Va ~<a Se ge 2 i ¢ - gn — ~ ne es = . “ALBIONS. ‘ENGLAND. Biri ‘Of God his Dedbeptehseat ‘din vs,which finne in Mankinde ftaines, This (call it Better part of Man,Soule,Vnder tanding, Minde. a Orall,orany) cannot be but ofan heavenly Kinde, Ry ~ Through Seas,Earth,vnder,and the Heavensit runneth inatrife, And,vnderftandingly,of all difcourfeth point-deuife. | Sg This vader landing ; Minde it felfe yeat vnderftandeth not: | i Then mutt there be an higher Minde that hath our Minds Stone | The Planets and the Elements are not but Beings dead, # Nor Authors of themfelues,much lefle this Minde of hela 1S bread: | Nor Men that cannot Map themfelueshaue made themfelues,or know Whence do their Senfes, Mouings, or their Speeches Actions grow: Or how they fafhion in the Wombe,do quicken, breath,be borne, : - Thriue co perfection by Degrees that feeme at birth forlorne. oe What is in either WW orld(for Man the little World is faid) x Wherein whole Nature,euen to Senfe,hath not a God difplaid? _ Not, with the Stoickes, Nature then, but Natures God preferre : Of whom to fay what he is not,than iswere lefle to erre. Nor play not {till the Infidel : without thee,and within, Since all concludesa Deitie,and Vn-beleefe a Sin. A) Y now, pethaps, thou fauorefts fome Godhead : yea, ‘| 2 ods. r. With pafte and prefent times doett acne Pluralitie of Gods, ‘ So didin deed the Monatchies, fo Mifcreants nowno ot _ few: But liften here what Gods they w were sand learne them to efchew. rN Commicbookxs-COnm