Philosophical dissertations, with proper reflections : proving I. The non-eternity of matter and that there is a vacuum. II. That there must necessarily be one self-existent being in three self-existent properties ... III. That the light and heat of the sun ... are purely spiritous ... IV. That the soul is immortal / By Benjamin Parker.

  • Parker, Benjamin, -1747.
Date:
1738
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Credit: Philosophical dissertations, with proper reflections : proving I. The non-eternity of matter and that there is a vacuum. II. That there must necessarily be one self-existent being in three self-existent properties ... III. That the light and heat of the sun ... are purely spiritous ... IV. That the soul is immortal / By Benjamin Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~~ v-r THE ) HILO S 0 P H I C A L Enquiries, before the clear Light of the Gofpel, tho' they fur- nijhed Men with fome Expectations of a future State of Rew rds and Punijhments, yet it was but in objeure uncertainty, and it is very truly ob- ferv'd that the GofpeJ ofChrift hath brought Life and Immortality to Light $ but as there are too too many, who would choofe the Works of Darknefs in the midft of this Light, by rejecting the glorious Light of it, it is become necejjary to have recourfe to Re afon and Philofophy to jfeertain fuch Truths which the Gofpel reveals 5 and as the Revelati¬ on of the Gofpel gives Light to the UnderJi an dings ofthofe, who are prepared to receive its Truths, fj does it add to the Illumination of the Mind in all modern Enquiries into true Philofophy. And as the Gofpel is found to give Light to Reafon and Philofophy, it muft necellarily be a Divine Revelation, fence nothing lef could have remov'd the Mifis of Error and Ignorance, that the World before labour'd under. Now the following Djfert aliens C which hang together in a Chain) are chi fly deign'd to prove A 2 from