CLARKE (Samuel).

A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, and the Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation. In Answer to Mr. Hobbs [sic], Spinoza, the Author of the Oracles of Reason, and other Deniers of Natu

The Cosmological Argument for the existence of God

Being sixteen Sermons, preach’d in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul’s, in the Year 1704, and 1705, at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; By Samuel Clarke, D.D. Rector of St. James’s Westminster. The Sixth Edition, Corrected. There is inserted in this edition, A Discourse concerning the Connexion of the Prophecies in the Old Testament, and the Application of them to Christ. There is also added, An Answer to a Seventh Letter, concerning the Argument a priori.

Sixth edition. 8vo, [xxiv], 119, [xviii], 299, 48, [2] pp. Contemporary blind-panelled calf, rebacked with new spine label (armorial bookplate of William Phelps, the family name and one other also inscribed on pastedown, a very clean unbrowned copy with fresh white pages. London: Printed by W. Botham, for James Knapton, 1725.

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CLARKE (Samuel).
A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, and the Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation. In Answer to Mr. Hobbs [sic], Spinoza, the Author of the Oracles of Reason, and other Deniers of Natu

The sixth edition of Samuel Clarke’s Boyle Lectures delivered from the pulpit of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1704 and 1705. These are among Clarke’s most important philosophical writings, and they include probably the most powerful and sophisticated version of the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God ever mounted.

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