The Hierarchie of the blessed Angells Their Names, orders and Offices; The fall of Lucifer with his Angells; Written by Thos. Heywood |
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THE ARGVMENT of the second Tractate.
A God being found, deny'd by none,
It followes there can be but one
By the Philosophers confest,
And such as were of Poets best.
Him, not the Oracle denies,
Nor those the antient world held wise:
Sage, Sybel, Mage, Gymnosophist,
All in this Vnitie persist.
Next, That this Power, so far extended,
Can by no sence be comprehended:
Neither his Essence, most Diuine,
Be sounded by weake Reasons line.
And last, what names most properly
Belong to this great Deitie.
It followes there can be but one
By the Philosophers confest,
And such as were of Poets best.
Him, not the Oracle denies,
Nor those the antient world held wise:
Sage, Sybel, Mage, Gymnosophist,
All in this Vnitie persist.
Next, That this Power, so far extended,
Can by no sence be comprehended:
Neither his Essence, most Diuine,
Be sounded by weake Reasons line.
And last, what names most properly
Belong to this great Deitie.
The second Argument.
Goas Knowledge, treats the Cherubim:He nothing knowes, that knowes not him
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