Lately Printed for Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in A Sermon preached before the Queen at White-ball, Feb. 22. 1685, upon 1 Pet. 4. 18. A Sermon preached before the King and Queen at White-ball, March 23. 16 upon Ecclefiaftes 11.9. 89 Chriftian Magnanimity: A Sermon preached in the CathedralChurch at Worcester, at the time of the Aflizes, Sept. 21, 1690. upon 2 Tim. 1. 7. A Sermon preached before the Queen at White-ball, March 1. 169 on Luke 6. 46.. A Sermon preached before the Queen at White-ball, March 13. 1691. upon Rom. 8. 6. The Mysteries of the Chriftian Faith Vindicated, in a Sermon preached at St. Lawrence-Jewry, London, April 7. 1691. upon 1 Tim. 1. 15. All Six by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Lord Bifhop of Worcester. The Bishop of Worcester's Charge to the Clergy of his Diocefe, in his Primary Vifitation, begun at Worcester, Sept. 11. 1690. The Unreafonableness of a Separation from the New Bishops: Or a Treatife out of Ecclefiaftical Hiftory. Shewing, That although a Bishop was unjustly deprived, neither He nor the Church ever made a Separation, if the Succeffor was not a Heretick. TranAlated out of an ancient Greek Manufcript in the Publick Library at Oxford. The Cafe of Sees Vacant, by an Unjuft or Uncanonical Deprivation, stated in Reply to a Treatile, entituled, A Vindication of the deprived Bishops, &c. Together with the feveral Pamphlets lately published as Anfwers to the Baroccian Treatife: both by Humphrey Hody, D. D. Fellow of Wadham-College in Oxford. The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism,demonftrated 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 World: in Eight Sermons, preached at the Lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Efq; in the First Year 1692. by Richard Bentley, M. A. Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcefter. A Confutation of Atheilm FROM THE Origine and Frame of the World. PART I. A SERMON Preached at St. Mary-le-Bow, OCTOBER the 3d, 1692. Being the Sixth of the Lecture Founded by the Honourable ROBERT BOYLE, Esquire. By RICHARD BENTLEY, M. A. Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God, EDWARD, Lord Bishop of Worcester. The Second Edition. LONDON, Printed by J. H. for Henry Mortlock, at the Phenix, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1694. i Imprimatur. Ra. Barker, Rmo. in Chrifto Patri ac Dno Dno. Jobanni Archiep. Can tuar, à Sacris Domest LAMBETH, Nov. 10.--92. Acts XIV. 15, &c. That ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made Heaven and Earth and the Sea, and all things that are therein: Who in times past suffer'd all Nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheleß, he left not himself without witneß, in that he did good, and gave us Rain from Heaven, and fruitfull Seafons, filling our hearts with Food and Gladness. A LL the Arguments, that can be brought, or can be demanded, for the Exiftence of God, may, perhaps not abfurdly, be reduced to three General Heads: The First of which will include all the Proofs from the Vital and Intelligent portions of the Universe, the Organical Bodies of the various Animals, and the Immaterial Souls of Men. Which Living and Understanding Subftances, as they make incomparably the most confiderable and noble Part of the naturally known and vifible Creation; fo they do the most clearly and cogently demonstrate to Philofophical Enquirers the neceffary Self-existence, and omnipotent Power, and unsearchable Wisdom, and boundless Beneficence of their Maker. This firft Topick therefore was very fitly and divinely made use of by our Apoftle A 2 postle in his Conference with Philosophers and that Chap. 17. inquifitive People of Athens: the latter. Spending their V, 2. time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear fome new thing; and the other to call in question the most evident Truths, that were deliver'd and receiv'd of Old. And these Arguments we have hitherto purfued in their utmoft latitude and extent. So that now we shall proceed to the Second Head, or the Proofs of a Deity from the Inanimate part of the World; feeing that even Natural Reason, as well Pfal.19. 1. as the Holy Scripture, affures us, That the Heavens declare the Glory of God, and the Firmament sheweth his Jer. 51.15% Handy-work; That he made the Earth by his power, He hath established the World by his wifdom, and hath stretchPfal.148.5-ed out the Heaven by his understanding; That He com manded and they were created; he hath alfo established 147.8. them for ever and ever; He covereth the Heavens with 65.2. Clouds, He prepareth Rain for the Earth, He crowneth the Year with his Goodness. Thefe Reasons for God's Existence, from the Frame and Syftem of the World, as they are equally true with the Former, fo they have always been more popular and plaufible to the illiterate part of Mankind; infomuch as the Epicureans, Lucret. 5. Præterea çœli ra tiones ordine certo, & varia an- and fome others, have obferved, that mens contemplating the most ample norum cernebant tempora verti: didice & lib. 6. Nam bene qui tamen interea mirantur, &c.Cic. Arch of the Firmament, the innume rable |