. The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle esq.: abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medicine. fo far provided for, as their welfare is confiftent with the generallaws by him fettled in the univerfe ; and with fuch of thofe ends, that heproposd to himfelf in framing it, as are more confiderable than the wel-fare of thofe particular-creatures. 5. The laft fervice that, I hope, our do^rine may do reli<i-ion, isto induce men to pay their admiration, their praifes, and their^ thanksdiredly to G
. The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle esq.: abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medicine. fo far provided for, as their welfare is confiftent with the generallaws by him fettled in the univerfe ; and with fuch of thofe ends, that heproposd to himfelf in framing it, as are more confiderable than the wel-fare of thofe particular-creatures. 5. The laft fervice that, I hope, our do^rine may do reli<i-ion, isto induce men to pay their admiration, their praifes, and their^ thanksdiredly to God himfelt; who is the true and only creator of the fun-moon, earth, and thofe other creatures, that men call the works of na-ture. And in this way of expreffing their veneration of the true God,and their gratitude to him, they are warranted by the examples of theancient people of God, the Ifraelites -, and not only by the infpired perfonsof the old teftament, but by the promulgators of the new, and even bythe celeftial fpirits; who, in the Revelation of St. John^ are introducedpraifingand thanking God himfelf for his works,- without taking- anynotic? of his pretended vicegerent, nature. ^. AN ( 150 ) A N INQUIRY INTO THE FINAL CAUSES OF
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