A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God

About this book

A Boyle Lecture on the existence and attributes of God

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.

Contents

1. Dedication
2. The Preface.
3. Introduction
4. Proposition I.
5. Proposition II. There must have existed from eternity one independent being.
6. Proposition III. The one independent Being must be necessarily existing.
7. Proposition IV: The essence of the self-existent Being [is] incomprehensible.
8. Proposition V. That the self-existent being must be eternal.
9. Proposition VI. That the self-existent being must be infinite and omnipresent.
10. Proposition VII. That the self-existent being can be but one.
11. Proposition VIII. That the self-existent being must be intelligent.
12. Proposition IX. That the self-existent being must be a free agent.
13. Proposition X. That the self-existent being must be all-powerful.
14. Proposition XI. That the supreme cause and author of all things must of necessity be infinitely wise.
15. Proposition XII. The supreme author of all things must be infinitely good, just, and true.
16. A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation. Being Eight Sermons Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, in the Year 1705, at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq.
17. Dedication
18. The Preface.
19. Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainity of the Christian Revelation.
20. The Introduction.
21. Proposition I. · Part 1
22. Proposition I. · Part 2
23. Proposition I. · Part 3
24. Proposition I. · Part 4
25. Proposition II.
26. Proposition III.
27. Proposition IV.
28. Proposition V.
29. Proposition VI.
30. Proposition VII.
31. Proposition VIII.
32. Proposition IX.
33. Proposition X.
34. Proposition XI.
35. Proposition XII.
36. Proposition XIII.
37. Proposition XIV. · Part 1
38. Proposition XIV. · Part 2
39. Proposition XIV. · Part 3
40. Proposition XIV. · Part 4
41. Proposition XIV. · Part 5
42. Proposition XV.
43. The First Letter
44. The Answer to the First Letter.
45. The Second Letter
46. The Answer to the Second Letter.
47. The Third Letter.
48. The Answer to the Third Letter.
49. The Fourth Letter.
50. The Answer to the Fourth Letter.
51. The Fifth Letter.
52. The Answer to the Fifth Letter.
53. The Answer to a Sixth Letter.
54. The Answer to a Seventh Letter.