Catalogue Entry: THEM00251

Sermon 8: Acts XIV. v. 15, &c

Author: Richard Bentley

Metadata: 1693, c. 9,521 words

Source: The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism Demonstrated from The Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, The Faculties of Human Souls, The Structure of Animate Bodies, & The Origin and Frame of the World: In Eight Sermons Preached at the Lecture Founded by The Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire; In the First Year MDCXCII. (London: 1693).

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^[1] Newton Phil. Natur. Princip Math.

^[2] ὀ θεὸς ἀει γεωμετρει. Plat.

^[3] Gen. 1.

^[4] Newton ibidem, p. 415.

^[5] Tacquet de Circulorum volutionibus.

^[6] Gen. 8.

^[7] See Mr. Boyle of the Air.

^[8] Mr. Boyle's Second Continuation of Physicomechanical Exp. about the Air.

^[9] Lucret. Et mare, quod late terrarum distinet oras.

^[10] Psal. 104.

^[11]

Nequaquam nobis divinitus esse creatam

Naturam rerum, tanta stat prædita culpa.

Principio, quantum cœli tegit impetus ingens,

Inde avidam partem montes Sylvæque ferarum

Possedere, tenent rupes, vastæque paludes,

Et mare, quid late terrarum distinet oras.

. Lucret lib. 5.

^[12] Heb. 11.

^[13] Gen. 1.

^[14] Deut. 33.15.

^[15] vide Ælian. var. Hist. lib. III.

^[16] Virg Æn. 6. At pater Anchises penitus convalle virenti.
& ibid. Hoc superate jugum. & ib. Et tumulum cœpit.

^[17]

Flours worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art

In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon

Powr'd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plain.

Paradise Lost, lib. 4

^[18]

For Earth hath this variety from Heaven

Of Pleasure situate in Hill and Dale.

Ibid. lib. 6.

^[19] Serm. 5.

^[20] Prov. 3.