"Also I direct and appoint, that no person shall be qualified to preach the Divinity Lecture Sermons, unless he hath taken the degree of Master of Arts at least, in one of the two Universities of Oxford or Cambridge; and that the same person shall never preach the Divinity Lecture Sermons twice." CONTENTS. LECTURE I. THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC BELIEF. Psalm civ. 24. _O Lord, how manifold are Thy works: in wisdom hast Thou made them all; the earth is full of Thy riches._ The subject introduced: Scientific belief. Mathematics and Metaphysics excluded. The Postulate of Science: the Uniformity of Nature. Hume's account of it. Kant's account of it. Insufficiency of both accounts. Science traced back to observation of the Human Will. The development of Science from this origin. The increasing generality of the Postulate: which nevertheless can never attain to universality. LECTURE II. THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF. Genesis i. 27. _So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him._ The voice within. The objection of the alleged relativity of knowledge. Absolute knowledge of our own personal identity. Failure to show this to be relative; in particular by Mr. Herbert Spencer. The Moral Law. The command to live according to that Law; Duty. The command to believe in the supremacy of that Law; the lower Faith. The Last Judgment. The hope of Immortality. The personification of the Moral Law in Almighty God; the higher Faith. The spiritual faculty the recipient of Revelation, if any be made. The contrast between Religion and Science. LECTURE III. APPARENT CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION ON FREE-WILL. Genesis i. 27. _So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him._ Contradiction of Free-Will to doctrine of Uniformity. Butler's examination of the question. Hume's solution. Kant's solution. Determinism. The real result of examination of the facts. Interference of the will always possible, but comparatively rare. The need of a fixed nature for our self-discipline, and so for our spiritual life. LECTURE IV. APPARENT CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION. Romans i. 20. _For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead._ Foundation of the doctrine of Evolution. Great development in recent times. Objection felt by many religious men. Alleged to destroy argument from design. Paley's argument examined. Doctrine of Evolution adds force to the argument, and removes objections to it. Argument from progress; from beauty; from unity. The conflict not real. LECTURE V. REVELATION THE MEANS OF DEVELOPING AND COMPLETING SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE. Hebrews i. 1. _God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past to the Fathers by the Prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by His Son._