Promium Primum.
Robertus Milne

Univ. I. Coll. Reg.

Aberdonensis

INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM

OF

THE UNIVERSE:

WHEREIN ALL THE

REASON AND PHILOSOPHY

OF

ATHEISM IS CONFUTED,

AND ITS

IMPOSSIBILITY DEMONSTRATED.

WITH

A DISCOURSE

CONCERNING THE

TRUE NOTION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER;

AND

TWO SERMONS, ON 1 JOHN ii. 3, 4. and 1 COR. xv. 57.

BY RALPH CUDWORTH, D.D.

A NEW EDITION;

With References to the several Quotations in the Intellectual System; and an
Account of the Life and Writings of the Author:

BY THOMAS BIRCH, M.A. AND F.R.S.

IN FOUR VOLUMES:

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. F. DOVE, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE;
FOR RICHARD PRIESTLEY, 143, HIGH HOLBORN.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE former Edition of the Intellectual System, though the most valuable treasure of the ancient theology and philosophy extant in any language, had one considerable defect, (frequent amongst even the best writers of the last age,) that the references of its numerous quotations were very few, and those obscure and imperfect. Such as were wanting are therefore supplied in the present edition with the utmost exactness, chiefly from Dr. Laurence Mosheim's Latin translation of this work; those of the Author are included in [ ] to render them more clear and determinate.

The dedication to the House of Commons, in 1647, of the sermon on 1 John ii. 3, 4. omitted in the second and third editions, is restored likewise from the first.

To the whole is prefixed a new life of the Author, wherein is given a very particular account of his several excellent works.