Natural obligations to believe the principles of religion, and divine revelation: in xvi sermons, preached at the lecture founded by R. Boyle

W.B., 1719 - Apologetics - 512 pages

CONTENTS	1

Negligence arifing from vitious Practice	8

Unbelief criminal where there are fufficient Reafons	29

What true Freedom of thinking is	35

Unreasonable to perfuade others againſt the Principles	41

Tet more unreasonable to make them the Subject	50

Inftances of Faith proposed by the Apoſtle 6166	61

Mere belief of a God without a Providence no ground	67

Plea in behalf of Freethinkers confidered	275

No Defed in the Goodness of God if he suffer thofe	281

Meaning of the Words	291

Reafon of the fame kind in all	298

Generality of Men failed in this	307

An Exhortation to Sincerity in this Enquiry	314

A ferious Enquirer will find reafon to believe Reve	324

Not incredible	330

No perfe Morality where the firft Principles	73

Not even between Man and Man	79

Morality must refpe God Suppofing his Exiſtence	86

All orderly Societies of Men have ever profeft	94

And the Practice of all confiderable Nations	108

Solomon no Infidel	114

Univerfal Confent in the firft Principles of Religion	126

The Sufpicion of this without Foundation in point	132

Ancient Heathen Theology	141

Egyptians fabulous Antiquaries	147

Occafion of the Words	160

Uni	165

From whence the general Belief of a God may pro	169

Confirmed by Ufages of a Civil Nature	180

Third Ground of Belief vifible Effects	194

Magnitude or Extent of the Creation 3	202

Harmonious Correspondence of each part of Nature	209

Formation of the feveral Organs of Senfation	217

Objection of Epicureans and others in respect to Man	230

The use of Speech peculiar	238

Wisdom	244

Other Properties of an Human Mind	245

Abufe of the Word Nature	255

Abfurdity of rejecting Final Caufes	262

Eternal Succeffion abfurd	268

Remark of Strabo	337

Revelation not unneceſſary	344

Philofophers not fufficiently qualified	350

moft deficient in Matters of Religion	356

Epicureans	362

Philofophers owned their want of Revelation	363

Fallacy of thofe who think Revelation unneceſſary	371

Every Mans Duty to endeavour to diftinguish true	377

A Miracle what	387

A Sign of fomething	395

How to be diftinguished	402

Thing to be proved by Miracles must be worthy of God	409

Veracity of God a neceſſary Attribute	416

An Inftance of culpable Credulity in the old Prophet	424

Advantagious difference of Divine and Human Tefti	431

Better attefted than any ancient Human Hiftory	437

SERMON XV	445

Want of outward Means in the Apofiles an Argument	453

Marvellous Effects of the Chriftian Doctrine in	459

Methods of Heathen Philofophers to oppofe it	461

Could not bear up against the Light of Human	467

Jews nor fuffered to return	473

SERMON XVI	479

His dying and yet promifing life to others	488

Objection to the Time of bis Appearance	493

Title	Natural obligations to believe the principles of religion, and divine revelation: in xvi sermons, preached at the lecture founded by R. Boyle Boyle lectures
Author	John Leng (bp. of Norwich.)
Publisher	W.B., 1719
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	13 Oct 2008
Length	512 pages

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