Catalogue Entry: THEM00245

Sermon 2: Acts XVII. v. 27

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] Act. 17.18.

[2] Αργὸν καὶ ἀμελές.

[3] Arriani Epictet. l. 1. c. 12. Ὡς κατάγε τὸν λόγον, ὀυδε χείρων το θεων, ὀυδὲ μικρότερος. Seneca Ep 53. Est aliquid quo sapiens antecedat Deum: ille naturæ beneficio, non suo sapiens est.

[4] v. 20.

[5] Lucianus in Philopat. Philostrat. de vita Apol. l. 6. c. 2. Pausan. in Eliacis.

[6] v. 25.

[7] Lucret. 2. Ipsa suis pollens opibus, nihil indiga nostri.

[8] Tertull. Apolog. cap. 46.

[9] v. 26.

[10] Isocrates in Paneg. Demosth. in Epitaph. Cic Or. pro Flacco. Euripides, &c.

[11] Diog. Laert. in Præf.

[12] Thucyd. lib. 6. Herodot. &c.

[13] v. 27, 28.

[14] Plutarch. de Aud. Poet. & contra Colot.

[15] Laert. in vita Epicuri.

[16] v. 29.

[17] v. 30, 31.

[18] Acts 14. 16.

[19] v. 33.

[20] v. 28.

[21] Arati Phen. v. 5.

[22] Πάντης ταί Διὸς κεχρήμεθα πάντες, Του γαρ καὶ γένος ἑσμέν.

[23]

Hom. Il. ω. 551. Ουδέ μιν ἀνστήσεις, &c. Æsch. Eumen. 655. Ανδρὸς δ᾽᾽εωφδὰν αιμ᾽ ἀνασπάση κονις

Ἅπαξ θανόντος, ὀύτις ἔς᾽ ανάστασις.

Soph. Electra. 136. Ἀλλ᾽ ὀυτοι τόν γ᾽ ἑξ ἀιδα παγκοινου λίμνας πατέρ᾽ ἀνστάσεις ὀυτε γόοισιν, ὀυ λιταις.

[24] Acts 25.19.

[25] Luke 24.11.

[26] John 6.53.

[27] v. 60.

[28] v. 66.

[29] Seneca Ep. 113. Plutarch. de Contrad. Stoic.

[30] Vide Zenobium & Suidam in Δαιδάλου ωοιήματα & Scholiastem Eurip. Hecubæ V. 838.

[31] Epicurus apud Laert. Lucret. l. 5. Cicero de Fin. l. 1. Acad. l. 2.

[32] Lucret l. 2. Cic de Fato & l. 1. de Nat. Deorum. Plutarch. &c.

[33] Psal. 139.16.

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