An Historical View of the Rise and Progress of Infidelity, with a Refutation of It's Principles and Reasonings: In a Seriees of Sermons Preached for the Lecture Founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle, in the Parish Church of St. Mary Le Bow, From the Year 1802 to 1805. (TWO VOLUME SET)

William Van Mildert

Published by Printed for the Author, and Sold by F. C. and J. Rinvington, St. Paul's Churchyard; White, Fleet Street; Hatchard,, Piccadilly; Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1808

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TWO VOLUME SET, PUBLISHED 1808. Second edition. Hardcover. Boards are covered in light blue paper. Deckled foredge and foot. This set contains a series of sermons and lectors of Robert Boyle. Volume I contains an Extract from a Codicil to the Last Will and Testament of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., dated July 28,1691, followed by a preface and an advertisement to the second edition, as well as a list of those who have preached the Boyle's lecture since it's first institution, with corresponding years and a note that it 'be acceptable to the Theological Student'. On a shelf, this set spans 3.5" VOLUME I: Contents include twelve sermons, some of which include: First Prediction of a Contest between Believers in Revelation and it's Opponents, from the Fall of Adam to the End of the World; Commencement of the Historical Inquiry. View of Unbelief in general, and particularly Heathen Idolatry, before the coming of Christ; Opposition of the Heathens to the Gospel, from it's first Promulgation to the Reign of Constantine; Rise and Progress of Mahometanism; Progress of Infidelity during the Middle Ages. Eastern and Western Antichrists. Papal Usurpation. Scholastic Theology. Jewish Cabalistic Theology. Atheistic Philosophers; Progress of Infidelity under the Protestant Reformation. Efforts to overthrow the Reformation. Subsequent Efforts of Revealed Religion; Origin and Progress of Deism. Herbert. Hobbes. Spinosa. New Sect of Sceptics in the Seventeenth Century; Infidelity of the present Age. French Revolution. Paine. Godwin. Geddes. heretics. Schismatics. Jews. Turks, &c., and several others. Contains an appendix. xxv, 544 pp. VOLUME II: Contents include another twelve sermons, which are numbered continuously through XXIV from Volume I. Some of these sermons include: Inquiry into the proper Defense of Revealed Religion. Statement of the Argument a priori; The Inability of Man to frame a Religion for himself; The insufficiency of Natural or Moral Philosophy to instruct us in Religious Truth; The insufficiency of Metaphysics and the necessity of taking Faith for our guide; The proper limits of the human Understanding, in judging Revealed Religion; The preparatory Dispositions necessary for receiving the Truths of Revealed Religion; Statement of the argument a posteriori, and it's application to Revealed Religion. Historical Evidence of the facts of Scripture; The comparative force of human and Divine Testimony. Consideration of the great general Argument for the Divine origin of Christian, from it's design and accomplishment, and several others. Contains appendix. Indexed. vii, 589 pp. ABOUT ROBERT BOYLE, ESQ.: The Boyle Lectures are named after Robert Boyle, a prominent natural philosopher of the 17th century and son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Under the terms of his Will, Robert Boyle endowed a series of lectures or sermons (originally eight each year) which were to consider the relationship between Christianity and the new natural philosophy (today's 'science') then emerging in European society. The first such lecture was given in 1692 by Richard Bentley, to whom Isaac Newton had written: 'Sir, When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity; nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose.' The early lecturers were specifically charged to prove the truth of the Christian religion against Jews, Muslims and non-believers, without considering any controversies or differences that might exist between different Christian groups. A clergyman was to be appointed to the lectureship for a term of no more than three years by Thomas Tenison (later Archbishop of Canterbury) and three other nominated trustees. Boyle had assigned the rent from his house in Crooked Lane to support the lectures but the income from that source soon disappeared. Archbishop Tenison then arranged that the rental income from a farm in the parish of B.

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• Title: An Historical View of the Rise and Progress of Infidelity, with a Refutation of It's Principles and Reasonings: In a Seriees of Sermons Preached for the Lecture Founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle, in the Parish Church of St. Mary Le Bow, From the Year 1802 to 1805. (TWO VOLUME SET)
• Publisher: Printed for the Author, and Sold by F. C. and J. Rinvington, St. Paul's Churchyard; White, Fleet Street; Hatchard,, Piccadilly; Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1808
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Condition: Fair
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