Catalogue Entry: THEM00250

Sermon 7: Acts XIV. v. 15, &c

Author: Richard Bentley

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] Serm. V. p. 6, 7.

[2] Serm. V. p. 12, 13.

[3] Mr. Boyle's Physicom. Exp. of Air. Hydrostat. Paradoxes.

[4] Lucret. lib. 1.

[5] Newton Philos. Natur. Princ. Math. lib. 3. prop. 6.

[6] Mr. Boyle of Air and Porosity of Bodies.

[7] Mr. Boyle ibid.

[8] Newton Philos. Nat. Principia. Math. p. 503.

[9] Diod. Sicul. lib. 1. Κατὰ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχης τυν ὅλων συστασιν μίαν ἔχειν ἰδέαν ὀυρανόντε καὶ γην, μεμιγμένης αὐτων της φύσεως. Apoll. Rhodius lib. 1. Ἤειδεν δ᾽ ὡς γαια καὶ ὀυρανὄς ἠδὲ θάλασσα, τὸ πρὶν ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι μιη συναρηρότα μορφη.

[10] Lucret. Nec regione loci certa, nec tempore certo.

[11] Serm. V. p. 32.

[12] Newton ibidem p. 480.

[13] Vide Serm. VI. & Serm. VIII.

[14] Newton Philosophiæ Naturalis Princ. Math. lib. III.

[15] Psal. 148.

[16] Psal. 8.

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