OR, A

DEMONSTRATION

OF THE

Being and Attributes of GOD,

FROM HIS

WORKS of CREATION.

Being the SUBSTANCE of

SIXTEEN SERMONS

Preached in St. Mary le Bow Church, London,

At the Honourable Mr. BoYLE'S LECTURES, in the Years 1711, and 1712.

With Large NOTES and many Curious Obfervations.

By W. DER HAM,

Canon of Windfor, Rector of Upminster, in Effex, and F.R. S.

Mala & impia confuetudo eft contra Deos difputare, five animo id fit, five fimulate. CIC. de Nat. Deor. lib. ii. fine.

The THIRTEENTH EDITION.

LONDON,

Printed for ROBINSON and ROBERTS, in Pater-nofter-Row.

MDCCLXVIII.

TO THE

Moft Reverend Father in GoD,

THOMAS,

Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY, Primate of All ENGLAND, &c.

The Surviving TRUSTEE of the Honourable Mr. BOYLE'S LECTURES.

May it pleafe Your GRACE,

MAY juftly put thefe LECTURES under your GRACE's Patronage, their Publication being wholly owing to You: for having the Honour to be a Member of the ROYAL SOCIETY, as well as a Divine, I was minded to try what I could do towards the Improvement of Philofophical Matters to Theological Ufes ; and accordingly laid a Scheme of what I A 2

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