Eight Sermons Preached at the Boyle Lecture, 1692

Name: Eight Sermons Preached at the Boyle Lecture, 1692
Author: Richard Bentley

Richard Bentley (1662–1742) was an English classical scholar and Anglican clergyman, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the founder of modern historical philology. In 1692 he delivered the first Boyle Lectures — the Eight Sermons in our library — defending the Christian faith against atheism from the order of nature. His Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris (1699) remains a landmark of textual criticism.

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First published: 1692
Category: Theology
Length: 70k words · about 5 hours
Chapters: 11

About this book

Eight sermons by Richard Bentley, preached as the first Boyle Lectures in 1692 in defense of the Christian religion. Drawing on the new natural philosophy of his day, Bentley argues from the order and frame of the world to the existence and wisdom of God, answering the atheism of the age. A landmark where theology met the rising science of Newton.

The Epistle Dedicatory
The Contents
Serm. I. The Folly of Atheism, and (What is Now Called) Deism: Even with Respect to the Present Life.
Serm. II. Matter and Motion cannot think: or A Confutation of Atheism from the Faculties of the Soul. 🔒
Serm. III. A Confutation of Atheism from the Structure and Origin of Human Bodies. 🔒
Serm. IV. A Confutation of Atheism from the Structure and Origin of Human Bodies. Part II. 🔒
Serm. V. A Confutation of Atheism from the Sturcture and Origin of Human Bodies. The Third and Last Part. 🔒
Serm. VI. A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Frame of the World. Part I. 🔒
Serm. VII. A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Frame of the World. Part II. 🔒
Serm. VIII. A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Fram of the World. The Third and Last Part. 🔒
Of Revelation and the Messias. A Sermon Preach’at the Public Commencement at Cambridge. July 5th. 1696. 🔒