Catalogue Entry: THEM00249

Sermon 6: Acts XIV. v. 15, &c

Author: Richard Bentley

Metadata: 1693, c. 7,885 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] Chap. 17. v. 2.

^[2] Psal. 19.1.

^[3] Jer. 51.15.

^[4] Psal. 148.5

^[5] 147.8.

^[6] 65.2.

^[7] Lucret. 5. Præterea cœli rationes ordine certo, Et varia annorum cernebant tempora verti: & lib. 6. Nam bene qui didicere Deos securum agere ævum, Si tamen interea mirantur, &c. Cic. de Nat. Deor. lib. 2. Quis hunc hominem dixerit, qui cum tam certos cœli motus, tam ratos astrorum ordines, &c. Plutarch. de plac, phil. 1.6. Θεου γὰρ ἔννοιαν ἔχον ἀπὸ τὼν φαινομένων ἀστέρων, ὁρωντες τούτους μεγάλης συμφωνίας ὄντας αἰτίους, καὶ τετοιγμένας ἡμέραντε καὶ νύκτα, χειμωνά τε καὶ θέρος, ἀνατολάς τε καὶ δυσμάς.

^[8] Ver. 8.

^[9] Ver. 17.

^[10] Ver 9.

^[11] Luke 18.42.

^[12] 8.48

^[13] Matt. 13.58.

^[14] Mark 6.5.

^[15] Vanini Dial. p. 439.

^[16] Τουτο δὲ καὶ ἐν κοινη συνηθεία φυλαττόμενον ἴδοι τις ἄν. So δύναμαι is volo, Acts 4.20. John 7.7. and θέλω is possum. Vid. Budæ Comm. L. Gr.

^[17] See John ch. 9. and Matt. 16.14.

^[18] Luke 23.8

^[19] Mark 8.12.

^[20] Matt. 17.15. 15. 22.

^[21] Luke 8.4.

^[22] Luke 22.51.

^[23] Τινὲς δὲ ἄνδρες, c. 17. v. 34.

^[24] Cicero pro Flacco. Adsunt Athenienses, unde humanitas, doctrina, religio, fruges, jura leges ortæ atque in omnes terras distributæ putantur. Isoc. Paneg. Diod. Sic. 13.

^[25] See John 21. 25. and 2 Cor. 12. 12.

^[26] Ver. 11.

^[27] Eunapius, cap. 2.

^[28] Ver. 14.

^[29] Ἀλλ᾽ ὁυκ ἠν τουτο ούδέπω δήλον, τη γαρ οἰκεία φωνὴ ἐφθέγγοντο διὰ τουτο ὀυδὲν ἀυτοἴς ἔλεγον, ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐιδον τὰ στεμματα, τότε ἐξελθόντες διέ᾽ρρ῾όηξαν τὰ ἰμάτια ἀυτων. Chrys. ad loc.

^[30] Ephorus apud Strab. lib. 14.

^[31] Steph. voce Δέρβη.

^[32] 1 Cor. 14.18.

^[33] Acts 2.

^[34] Ver. 7.

^[35] Ver. 15.

^[36] Ver. 15.

^[37] Οὐξύλινον, ὀυ δὲ λὶθινον, ἀλλ᾽ ἀληθινόν. Athenæus, 6, 15.

^[38] Ὠδε δέ τις είπεσκεν ἰ δὼν ἐς πλησίον ἀλλον

^[39] Ver. 15.

^[40] Mortales sumus similes vobis homines. <16> So Εἴτι πὰθω, If I die, a common Expression in Gr. Writers.

^[41] Αι γαρ ἐγὼν ως Εἰτα ἀθάνατος καὶ ἀγήξαος ἤματα πάντα. Hom.

^[42] See Acts 4.27. 14.5. 26.17. Gal. 2.14.

^[43] Acts 17.30.

^[44] ὐπεριδών

^[45] בד עבד הוא לחון טבתא מן שמיא ומחות מטרא. So that they read ἀγαθ. ἐξ ὀυρανου, καὶ ύετὸν δ: Horat. Nec siquid mirifaciat natura, Deos id Tristes ex alto cœli demittere tecto.

^[46] Serm. III.

^[47] Horat. Carm. 1. 12.

^[48] Serm. II.

^[49] Serm. VII.

^[50] Lucret. lib. 1.