Richard Bentley

Alone

God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.

Animate

The admirable structure of animate bodies.

Callous

A callousness and numbness of soul.

Coetaneous

And all [members of the body] are coetaneous.

Coextend

Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations?

Comparative

The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that incloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top.

Compendiously

Compendiously expressed by the word chaos.

Comprehensive

A very comprehensive definition.

Conceited

Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.

Condense

The huge condense bodies of planets.

Conducible

All his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them.

Conjugation

Mixtures and conjugations of atoms.

Continually

Why do not all animals continually increase in bigness?

Convexity

A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe.

Declination

The declination of atoms in their descent.

Dusky

This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect.

Entity

Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification.

Exception

I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation].

Extant

A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant.

Exterminate

To explode and exterminate rank atheism.

Formative

The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil.

Gospel

The steadfast belief of the promises of the gospel.

How

By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility, and fountains, and rivers of the earth.

Incendiary

Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries.

Inclinable

Likely and inclinable to fall.

Incorporeal

Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us.

Inherently

Matter hath inherently and essentially such an internal energy.

Inhibit

Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them.

Levity

This bubble by reason of its comparative levity to the fluidity that incloses it, would ascend to the top.

Mechanism

He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident.

Moment

It is an abstruse speculation, but also of far less moment and consequence of us than the others.

Muddle

Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.

Mutual

A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

Occur

The resistance of the bodies they occur with.

I must occur to one specious objection.

Opiate

They chose atheism as an opiate.

Organical

The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move.

Perception

Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence.

Pertinence

The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse.

Potentially

The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite.

Preclude

This much will obviate and preclude the objections.

Put

We might put him off with this answer.

Recede

All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center.

Reciprocally

These two particles do reciprocally affect each other with the same force.

Shuffle

The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter.

Signature

The natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls . . . are supposed to be stamped with.

Sinistrous

A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the most sinistrous and absurd choice.

Spoil

Each science and each art his spoil.

Sportful

They are no sportful productions of the soil.

Stolidity

Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself.

Subservience

The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions.

Substantial

If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar.

Supersede

Nothing is supposed that can supersede the known laws of natural motion.

Supervene

Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power.

Travesty

I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor.

Turbinate

A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole.

Vacuity

A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter.

Vesture

Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants.

wager

If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.

Wheel

The moon carried about the earth always shows the same face to us, not once wheeling upon her own center.

Whisper

They might buzz and whisper it one to another.

Youthful

After millions of millions of ages . . . still youthful and flourishing.