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Eight Sermons, Preached at the Hon. Robert Boyle's Lecture, in the Year Mdcxcii; To Which Are Added, Three Sermons on Different Occasions
Eight Sermons Preached at the Hon Robert Boyle's Lecture in the Year Mdcxcii To Which Are Added Three Sermons on Different Occasions Author:Richard Bentley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: Sermons, English Atheism Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Atheism Religion / Sermons / Christian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typ... more »os or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A CONFUTATION OF ATHEISM MIOM THE ORIGIN AND FRAME OF THE WORLD. PART II. SERMON VII. Preached November the yth, 1693; Acts xiv. 15 -- 17. That ye Jhould turn from thefe vanities unto the living God, who made heaven and earth, and the fea, and all things that are therein: who in times pajl fuf- fered all nations to walk in their own ways. Never- thelefs, he left not himfelf without witnefs, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruit - fulfeafons, filling our hearts with food and gladnefs. W HEN we firft entered upon this topic, the demonftration of God's exiftence from the origin and frame of the world, we offered to prove four propofitions. I, That this prefent fyftem of heaven and earth cannot poffibly have fubfified from all eternity. p II. That II. That matter confidered generally, and ab- ftra« less