. 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. ationof the moft adlive body in nature, flame, was fufpended in Nebuchadnez,arsfiery furnace, whilft Daniels three companions walkd unhurt thus the body of our Saviour, after his refurredlion, tho it retaindthe very imprelTions that the nails of the crofs had made in his hands andfeet, and the wound of the fpear in his fide, as the hiftory of the gofpelaflures us 5 was endowd with far nob
. 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. ationof the moft adlive body in nature, flame, was fufpended in Nebuchadnez,arsfiery furnace, whilft Daniels three companions walkd unhurt thus the body of our Saviour, after his refurredlion, tho it retaindthe very imprelTions that the nails of the crofs had made in his hands andfeet, and the wound of the fpear in his fide, as the hiftory of the gofpelaflures us 5 was endowd with far nobler qualities, than before its , as the apoftle tells us, that this great change of fchematifm in thefaints bodies will be eftedled by the irrefiftible power of Chrift ,• we fhall notfcruple to allow of fuch an effedt: from fuch an agent, if we confider howmuch the bare flight mechanical alteration of the texture of a body, maychange its fenflble qualities for the better. Thus, without any vifible addi-tion, I have feveral times changed dark and opake lead, into iinely-colourdtranfparent glafs, of a lefs fpecific gravity j and thick fetid fmoke, into abright and fcentlefs THE ( ^9 ) THE Chriftian Virtiiofo. THE Propofition I Ihall here endeavour to eftablifb, is, that a man Ex^enmnt^may be a virtuofo, or experimental philofopher, without forfeiting f^^jMj^J^J^^his chriftianity. gemraU And firft, tis certain, that a due courfe of experimental philofophy, greatly conduces to fettle in the mind, a firm perfuafion of the exiftence, and ieveral of the chief attributes of God; which perfuadon is, in the order of things, the firft principle of that natural religion, we allow as the very foundation of revealed religion, in general. That the confideration of the vaftnefs, beauty, and regular motions of ^> ^T«^««^the heavenly bodies, the excellent ftrufture of animals and plants, beiides Goifa multitude of other phenomena of nature, and the fubferviency of moft o
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