IN ANSWER TO MR HOBBES, SPINOZA, THE AUTHOR OF THE NATURAL AND REVEALED RELIGION. BEING SIXTEEN SERMONE PREACHED IN THE CATHEDRAL-CHURCH OF ST. PAUL, PRINTED FOR RICHARD GRIFFIN AND CO. T. TEGG, G. OFFOR, J. & C. EVANS, J. JONES, R. BALDOCK, T. ROBINSON & CO. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, THOMAS, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, AND PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND; SIR HENRY ASHURST, BARONET; SIR JOHN ROTHERAM, KNIGHT, SERGEANT AT LAW; JOHN EVELIN, ESQ. TRUSTEES APPOINTED BY THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYLE, ESQ. THIS DISCOURSE IS HUMBLY DEDICATED. THE PREFACE. THERE being already published many and good books to prove the Being and Attributes of God, I have chosen to contract what was requisite for me to say upon this subject, into as narrow a compass, and to express what I had to offer, in as few words as I could with perspicuity. For which reason I have also confined myself to one only method or continued thread of arguing, which I have endeavoured should be as near to mathematical as the nature of such a discourse would allow ; omitting some other arguments which I could not discern to be so evidently conclusive; because it seems not to be at any time for the real advantage of truth to use arguments in its behalf founded only on such hypotheses as the adversaries apprehend they cannot be compelled to grant: Yet I have not made it my business to oppose any of those arguments, because I think it is not the best way |