Robert Boyle — EEBO-TCP A29033, keyed from the 1659 edition, printed as Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God.

Boyle’s first published book, written at twenty-one as a letter to a friend disappointed in love, and the work he was best known for in his own lifetime — it went through six editions. Its argument is that the love of God answers everything the love of a creature promises and fails to give, and it is written throughout in the heightened style Boyle afterwards gave up.

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Contents (4)

  1. The Dedication: To the Countess of Warwick
  2. Advertisements to the Reader
  3. Another Advertisement, Given by a Friend of the Author’s, to the Philosophical Readers
  4. Some Motives to the Love of God