The Works of Richard Bentley

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Transcript of The Works of Richard Bentley

DR.
BENTLEY
201
we
have
senseless
matter,
driven
and
composition
of
a
man
that
hath
the
faculty
of
receiving
For,
as
his
nature
is
perfect
and
immutable,
treads
on
viii.
8.
v.
c.
19.
et
Sympos.
1.
viii.
c.
8.
of
the
em-
bryon,
if
it
were
a-making
before.
Now,
(if
the
vices
of
men
did
not
captivate
their
reason)
to
explode
and
exterminate
rank
Atheism
out
all
vegetables,
ne
or
two
only
excepted,
that
are
left
to
future
discovery;
which
seeds,
by
the
help
of
microscopes,
are
all
found
to
be
blunder
and
deformity
were
quickly
removed
out
of
knowledge
and
being,
it
is
plain
that
no
animals
ought
now
to
be
found
but
such
as
have
due
dice.
Now,
you
have
cast
all
the
hundred
trials*
but
one,
in,
that
they
be
not
inevitably
estroyed
by
moisture
or
cold
all
the
proofs
from
?
corruption:
we
carry
tlie
image
of
God
in
us,
a
lowest and densest
loose,
without
ever
consociating
axis,)
eft
out
the
words,
 not
once
wheel-ng
upon
her
own
centre,
:^
region
on
the
surface
of
the
earth
a
much
greater
density
or
tenuity
of
texture,
and
con-equently
have
been
unserviceable
for
vegetation
the
But
them
consider
that
them
consider
that
divide
for the
prophets,
that
this
municipal
towns.
And
so
those
of
Constantinople
had
a
should
by
long
time
grow
cheap
and
vulgar,
Gospel.
To
engross
which
profitable
trade,
it
was
first
necessary
that
clergy
to
the
common
interest
to
arrive
at
church
pre-erment,
by
sinful
or
servile
compliance,
by
turbulency
and
faction,
of
the
world,
if
we
consider
the
state
to their
incumbrance
of
public
employments,
he
perhaps
may
be
tempted
to
imagine
that
he
can
and
may
live
to
himself,
and
his
own
sole
ease
and
found
either
flat
nonsense
in
itself,
r
a
contradiction
to
the
whole.
This
Discourse,
says
the
title,
as
occasioned
by
drink
full
should
the
Remarks),
version,
proves
himself
a
very
idiot
management
of
this
passage;
for
the
present
work,
Hare
put
forth
a
pamphlet
still
more
desired,
is,
your
authority
than
to
require
any
is
suf-icient
to
clear
the
Christians
of
the
pretended
forgery.
For
surely
Laertius
could
come
at
copies
the
aKa,
rp
promoted
it.
Not
[cap.
37.]
; *
the
poet'sdesign,
or
with
the
GREEK TESTAMENT
expense
to
Savage.
two
centuries
after.
And
Timons)
rail
at
me,
that
against
the
authority
of
The
short
interpretations
f
those
and
copies
too,
when
it
votes
for
an
omission,
the
doctor's
peculiar
foible.
The
sum