Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge Platonists; being selections from the writings of Benjamin Whichcote, John Smith and Nathanael Culverwel, with introduction by E. T. Campagnac.

Author

Campagnac, Ernest Trafford, 1872-

Publication

Oxford, Clarendon press, 1901.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Whichcote, Benjamin, 1609-1683.
• Smith, John, 1618-1652.
• Culverwel, Nathanael, -1651?

Description

xxxvi, 327, [1] p.; 20 cm.

Subject

Cambridge Platonists

Note

• With facsimile of original title-pages.
• Selections from Whichcote's Select sermons and aphorisms (Whishart's ed., Edinburgh, 1742; v.4 of Jeffery's ed., London, 1701-07; Salter's ed., London, 1753); Smith's Select discourse (London, 1660), and Culverwell's Discourse of the light of nature (Oxford, 1669)

Contents

Introduction -- The glorious evidence and power of divine truth ; The venerable nature, and transcendant benefit of Christian religion ; The work of reason ; Moral and religious aphorisms / Benjamin Whichcote -- A discourse concerning the true way or method of attaining to divine knowledge ; A discourse demonstrating the immortality of the soul ; A discourse concerning the existence and nature of God ; The excellency and nobleness of true religion / John Smith -- A discourse of the light of nature / Nathanael Culverwel.

Call Number

YBXC (Campagnac, E. T. Cambridge Platonists)

LCCN

02012172

OCLC

1282081

Author

Campagnac, Ernest Trafford, 1872- ed.

Title

The Cambridge Platonists; being selections from the writings of Benjamin Whichcote, John Smith and Nathanael Culverwel, with introduction by E. T. Campagnac.

Imprint

Oxford, Clarendon press, 1901.

Added Author

Whichcote, Benjamin, 1609-1683.

Smith, John, 1618-1652.

Culverwel, Nathanael, -1651?

Research Call Number

YBXC (Campagnac, E. T. Cambridge Platonists)