wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

and.of Ral?ii CudworthD. D. viihis name. Bochart, Spencer^ -Selden, and other eminent writers quote thisdifcourfe with great commendations -, my moft ingenious and learnedfriend Mr. Warburton, in a Letter of excellent Remarks upon our Author,which he favour'd me with, flyles it a mafter-piece in its kind ; and obfervesthat he has undoubtedly given the true nature and idea of the Sacrament., andfupported it with alibis learning. The fame year likewife appeared his treatifeintitled, The Union of Chriji and ike Church a Shadow, by R. C. printed utLondon in quarto.He took tlie degree of Batchclor of Divinity in the year 1644, upon whichoccafion he maintained at the Commencement in the Univerfity the two followingThefes : I. Dantur bffti ii ma/i rationes aterna & indifpenfabiles :II. Dantur fubflantia incorporea fud naturd immorta'es. Hence it appears,that even at that time he was examining and revolving in his mind thofe importantfubjefts, which he fo long afterwards clear'd up with fuch uncommonpenetration in his Intelle^ual Syflem, and other works ftill preferv'd inmanulcript.In the fame year 1644, he was appointed Mailer of Clare-Hall in Cambridge,in the room of Dr. Pajke, who had been ejefted by the ParliamentaryVifitors. In 1645, Dr. M^/rrt// having rcfign'd the Regius profeHbrfliip ofthe Hebrew tongues, Mr. Cudworlb was unanimoully nominated on die 15thoiOSlober by the feven Electors to fuccecd him. Fiom tliis time he ab.uidon'dall the fundtions of a Miniftcr, and applied himfclf only to his academicalemployments and lludics, clpecially that ot die Jewifh antiquicii'S. Andwe find the following pafTage in a manufcript letter of Mr. JohnlVorthington,afterwards Mailer of Jefus College, dated May iz 164b. "Our learned" friend Mr. Cudworth reads every IVednefday in the fchools. His fubjetl is" Templum Hierofolymitanum." When his affairs required his abfence fromthe Univerfity, he fubftitutcd Mr. Worthington in his room. March 3 11647, he preach'd before the Houfe of Commons at IVeflminfler, upon a dayof public humiliation, a lermon upon 1 Johnn. 3, 4. for wliich he had thethanks of that Houfe returned him on the fame day. This fermon wasprinted the fame year at Cambridge in quarto, with the following motto inthe title-page, Ei/otijfi, Z tsxvov* yxo mcI^x'j Jlxsug Xciri^-'-.^tr and with aDedication to the Houfe of Commons, which was omitted in thefcond andthird editions, but reftored in the prefent. In 1 6^ i he took the degree ofDoclor of Divinity. Tho' the places, which he held in the Univerfity wereveiy honourable, yet he found the revenue of them not fufficient to fupporthim; for which reafon he had thoughts onenvma Cambridge intirely, and inxieedadtually retir'd from it, tho' but for a ihort time. This appeal s fromtwo manui'cript letters of Mr. JVorthingtcn; the former dated January 6.1651. where he writes thus: " If thro' want of maintenance he {R. C)" fhould be forced to leave Cambridge, for which place he is fo cminenti)'" accomplifhed with what is noble and exemphuily academical, it would'•be an ill omen," In the latter dated January 30. 1654, is thispaflage : " After many tofTings Dr. Cudworth is, thro' God's provi-" dence, returned to Cambridge, and fettled in Chrijl's College, and by his*' marriage morefetded and fixed." For upon the dcceafc of Dr. SamuelBolton,