THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. IN reprinting the pieces which constitute the present volume, I have adopted the text of the following editions: To I. Eight Sermons Preach'd at the Honourable Robert Boyle's Lecture, in the First Year MDCXCII. By Richard Bentley, M. A. The Sixth Edition. which are added, Three Sermons: One at the Public Commencement, July 5, 1696. when he proceeded Doctor in Divinity; another before the University, Nov. 5, 1715. and one before his late Majesty King George I. Feb. 3, 17. Cambridge, MDCCXXXV. 8vo. The Boyle Lectures were originally put forth each as a distinct publication, the first six in 1692, the last two in 1693, London, 4to and during the latter year a general title-page was prefixed to them -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, and The Origin and Frame of the |