Catalogue Entry: THEM00248

Sermon 5: 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] Serm. 2.

[2] Plutarch. περὶ τύχης.

[3] Plato X. de Legibus. Πυρ καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ γην καὶ ἀἔρα, φύσει πάντα ειναι καὶ τύχη φασίν – – – – ὀύτε διὰ. τινὰ θεὸν ὸύτε διὰ τέχνην, ἀλλα᾽ ο λέγομεν φύσει καὶ τύχη.

[4] Βουγενη ὰνδρόπρωρα. Emped.

[5] Psal. 94. 9.

[6] Lucret. lib. 5.

[7] Multaque tum tellus etiam Portenta creare, &c. Lucret. 5.

[8] Lucret. lib. 4. Nil ideo quoniam natum est in corpore, ut uti Possemus: sed quod natum est, id procreat usum.

[9] Plinius & Strabo.

[10] Lucret. 5. Dictis dabit ipsa fidem res Forsitan, & graviter terrarum motibus orbis Omnia conquassari in parvo tempore cernes.

[11] Palæph. περὶ Απίστων De Incredibilibus.

[12] Cicero de Natura Deorum, 2. 37.

[13] Lucret. 5. Hinc ubi quæque loci regio opportuna dabatur, Crescebant uteri, &c. & ibid. Inde loci mortalia sæcla creavit, Multa modis multis varia ratione coorta.

[14] Tacquetti Arithmet. cap. de Progressione.

[15] Luc. 5. Verum, ut opinor, habet novitatem Summa, recensque Natura est mundi, neque pridem exordia cepit.

[16] Cesalpin. Berigard.

[17] Gen. 1.28.

[18] Lucret. 5.

[19] Isai. 28.29.

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