Early English Printed Sermons


The certainty and necessity of religion in general, or, The first grounds & principles of humane duty establish'd in eight sermons preach'd at S. Martins in the Fields at the lecture for the year 1697, founded by the Honorable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by Francis Gastrell ...

Gastrell, Francis, 1662-1725
Publisher: Printed for Tho Bennet
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1697
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A42445 ESTC ID: R10900 STC ID: G300
Subject Headings: Sermons, English -- 17th century;
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In-Text than that there really is some such perfect Being, which was the Cause of these Effects we perceive? Can we, from the Oeconomy of the World and the Course of Nature, infer, that there is no governing and directing Power in the Universe? Can we, from the Frame and Disposition of our own Minds, prove, that we are under no Law or Obligation of acting? or that Religion is destructive of our Happiness? Can we, from the Circumstances of our Nature or the Constitution of things without us, make it reasonable to think we shall not live again, be conscious of all our former Actions, and be happy or miserable according to the different Kinds of them? However true these things may or are supposed to be in themselves, they will by no means follow from the forementioned Principles, and there can be no other but these imagined antecedent to them: than that there really is Some such perfect Being, which was the Cause of these Effects we perceive? Can we, from the Oeconomy of the World and the Course of Nature, infer, that there is no governing and directing Power in the Universe? Can we, from the Frame and Disposition of our own Minds, prove, that we Are under no Law or Obligation of acting? or that Religion is destructive of our Happiness? Can we, from the circumstances of our Nature or the Constitution of things without us, make it reasonable to think we shall not live again, be conscious of all our former Actions, and be happy or miserable according to the different Kinds of them? However true these things may or Are supposed to be in themselves, they will by no means follow from the forementioned Principles, and there can be no other but these imagined antecedent to them: cs cst a-acp av-j vbz d d j vbg, r-crq vbds dt vvb pp-f d n2 pns12 vvb? vmb pns12, p-acp dt np1 pp-f dt n1 cc dt n1 pp-f n1, vvb, cst pc-acp vbz dx n-vvg cc vvg n1 p-acp dt n1? vmb pns12, p-acp dt vvb cc n1 pp-f po12 d n2, vvb, cst pns12 vbr p-acp dx n1 cc n1 pp-f vvg? cc d n1 vbz j pp-f po12 n1? vmb pns12, p-acp dt n2 pp-f po12 n1 cc dt n1 pp-f n2 p-acp pno12, vvb pn31 j pc-acp vvi pns12 vmb xx vvi av, vbb j pp-f d po12 j n2, cc vbb j cc j vvg p-acp dt j n2 pp-f pno32? c-acp j d n2 vmb cc vbr vvn pc-acp vbi p-acp px32, pns32 vmb p-acp dx n2 vvb p-acp dt vvd n2, cc pc-acp vmb vbi dx j-jn p-acp d j-vvn n1 p-acp pno32:




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