CONTENTS.

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LIFE OF THE AUTHOR

ix CHAP. XI. Contracts of Labour-Service

55

XII. Contracts of Labour-Commissions 56
XIII. Contracts of Labour-Partnership 57
XIV. Contracts of Labour-Offices

ib.

MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

XV. Lies

58

XVI. Oaths

XVII. Oath in Evidence

61

XVIII. Oath of Allegiance

ib.

DEDICATION

XIX. Oath against Bribery in the Election

PREISE

of Members of Parliament

62

XX. Oath against Simony

ib.

XXI. Oaths to observe Local Statutes

63

XXII. Subscription to Articles of Religion ib.

XXIII. Wills

BOOK I.

.

PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS.

.

30

CHAP. I. Definition and Use of the Science

27

II. The Law of Honour

ib.

BOOK III.

III. The Law of the Land

28

IV. The Scriptures

ib.

PART II.

V. The Moral Sense

ib.

VI. Human Happiness

Of Relative Dutics which are indeterminate.

VII. Virtue

34 CHAP. I. Charity

60

II. Charity-The Treatment of our Domes:
tics and Dependants

ib.
III. Slavery

ib.

BOOK II.

IV. Charity-Professional Assistance 67

V. Charity-Pecuniary Bounty

68

MORAL OBLIGATIONS.

VI. Resentment

70

VII. Anger

71

CHAP. I. The Question. Why am I obliged to keep

VIII. Revenge

ib.

my word? considered

36

IX. Duelling

72

II. What we mean to say when a Man is

X. Litigation

73

obliged to do a thing

37

XI. Gratitude

Tu. The Question, Why am I obliged to keep

XII. Slander

my word ? resumed

ib.

IV. The Will of God

38

V. The Divine Benevolence

ib.

VI. Utility

39

VII. The Necessity of General Rules ib.

BOOK III.

VIIl. The Consideration of General Con.

PART III.

sequences pursued

40

IX. Of Right

41

X. The Division of Rights

of Relative Duties which result from the constitution of

42

the Sexes.

XI. The General Rights of Mankind 43

CHAP. I. Or the Public Use of Marriage Institu.

tions

75

II. Fornication

76

BOOK III.

III. Seduction

77

IV. Adultery

78

RELATIVE DOTIX8.

V. Incest

VI. Polygamy

80

PART I.

VII. Or Divorce

81

VIII. Marriage

83

of Relative Duties which are determinate.

IX. Of the Duty of Parents

84

CHAP. I. Of Property

88

45

X. The Rights of Parents

II.

The Use of the Institution of Property ib. XI. The Duty of Children

ib.

IIL The History of Property

46
IV. In what the Right of Property is founded ib.
V. Promises.

48

VI. Contracts

51

BOOK IV.

VII. Contracts of Sale

ib.

VIII. Contracts of Hazard

52

DUTIES TO OURSELVES.

IX. Contracts of lending of inconsumable

Property

53 CHAP. I. The Rights of Self Defence

99

X. Contracts concerning the lending or

II. Drunkenness

91

Money.

ib.

III. Suicide

92

DUTIES TOWARDS GOD.

ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE.

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CHAT I. Division of these Duties

94 CHAP. I. Of the Origin of Civil Government 102

II. Of the Duty and of the Escacy of Prayer,

II. How Subjection to Civil Government is

so far as the sume appear from the

maintained

110

Light of Nature

95 III. The Duty of Submission to Civii Go:

III. Or the Duty and Efficacy of Prayer, as

vernment explained

111

represented in Scripture

96

IV. The Duty of Civil Obedience, as stated

IV. Of Private Prayer, Family Prayer, and

in the Christian Scriptures

115

Public Worship

97

V. Of Civil Liberty

V. Of Forms of Prayer in Public Worship 99

vj. Of different forms of Governmeni

VI. Of the Use of Sabbatical Institutions 101

VII. Of the British Constitution

192

VII. Of the Scripture Account of Sabbatical

VIII. Of the Adininistration of Justice

Institutions

102

IX. Or Crimes and Punishments

136

VIII. By what Acts and Omissions the

X. Of religious Establishments and of To-

Dutics of the Christian Sabbath is

leration

142

violated

105 XI. Of Population and Provision; and of

IX. Of Reverencing the Deity

Agriculture and Commerce, as subser-

vient thereto

150

XII. Of War, and of Military Establish:

ments

160

. 117

• 119

· 129

. 106

HORÆ PAULINA:

OR,

THE TRUTH OF THE SCRIPTURE HISTORY OF ST. PAUL EVINCED.

ness

THE MANNER OF VISITING THE SICK.

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Page Particular Prayers for the Sick

243

SECT. I. The Assistance that is to be given to Sick A larger Form of Prayer for the Sick

249

and Dying Persons by the Ministry of the Clergy 234 Proper Psalms for the Sick

ib.

SECT. II. Rules for the Manner of visiting the Sick ib. A Declaration of Forgiveness :

250

SECT. III. Of instructing the Sick Man in the Na.

ture of Repentance, and Confession of his Sins

235

Arguunents and Exhortations to move the Sick

Man to Repentance and Confession of his Sins ib.

OCCASIONAL PRAYERS FOR THE SICK, VIZ

Arguments and general Heads of Discourse, by

way of Consideration, to awaken a stupid

A Prayer for a person in the beginning of his Sick-

250

Conscience, and the careless Sinner

237

For Thankfulness in Sickness

ib.

SECT. IV. Of applying spiritual Remedies to the

For a blessing on the Means used for a Sick Per-

unreasonable Fears and Dejections of the Sick 238

son's Recovery

ib.

Considerations to be offered to Persons under

For a Sick Person, when there appears some Hope

Religious Melancholy

239

251

An Exercise against Despair

of Recovery

240 | In behalf of the Sick Person, when he finds any

SECT. V. Considerations against Presumption 241

Abatement of his Distemper

ib.

The Order for the Visitation of the Sick 242 For one who is dangerously ill

ib.

The Communion of the Sick

244

Proper Collects that may be used with any of

For a Sick Person when Sickness continues long

ib.

the Prayers for the Sick .

247

For the Grace of Patience, and a suitable Behaviour

in a Sick Person to Friends and Attendants 252

For Spiritual Improvement by Sickness

ib.

For a Sick Person who is about to make his Will ib.

AYERS FOR THE SICK, VIZ.

For a Sick Penitent.

ib.

For a Sick Person who intends to receive ihe blessed

A general Prayer for the Acceptance of our Devo.

Sacrament

253

tions for the Sick

248 For a Sick Person that wants Sleep

. ib.

upon him

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To be said when the Sick Person grows light-headed 253 For a Person that is afflicted with grievou cains
For a Person when Danger is apprehended by exces. of his Body

260

sive Sleep

· 251 For one who is troubled with acute Paine of the

For a Person lying insensible on a Sick-bed

ib. Gout, Stone, Cholic, or any other boduly Dis.
For one who hath been a notoriously wicked Liver ib.

261

Por one who is hardened and impenitent 255 For a Person in the small-Pox, or any such like

Per a Sick Woman that is with Child

ib. raging infectious Disease

ib.

For a Woman in the Time of her Travail

ib. For a Person in a Consumption, or any lingering

Fer a Woman who cannot be delivered without Disease

ib.

Dificulty and Hazard

256 For a Person who is jame in his Sickness

ib.

For Grace and Assistance for a Woman after De:

For one that is Bed-ridden

262

fisery, but still in Danger

ib. For a Person troubled in Mind, or in Conscience ib.

For a Sick Child

ib. Another for the same, or for one under deep Melan-

For a person who, from a state of Healih, is sud. choly and Dejection of Spirit

ib.
denly sized with the Sympioms of Death 257 For the same

ib.

For a Sick Person, when there appeareth small For one under fears and Doubts concerning his spi.

Hope of Recovery

ib. ritual Condition, or under perplexing Thoughts

A gueral Prayer for Preparation and Readiness and Scruples about his Duty

263

to die

ib. For one who is disturbed with wicked and blas.

A commendatory Prayer for a Sick Person at the phemous Thoughts

ib.

point of Departure

258 For one who is atllicted with a profane Nistrist of

A Lisans for a Sick Person at the time of Departure ib. Divine Truths and blasphemous Thoughts ib.

Forn of recommending the Soul to God, in her De. For one under the dread of God's Wrath and ever.

parture from the Body

ib. lasting Damnation

ib.

A consolatory Form or Devotion that may be used For a Lunatic

ib.

with the Friends or Relations of the Deceased 259 For natural Fools or Madmen

264

Proper Psalms for a Sick Person at Sea

ib.

A Prayer for a Sick Seaman

ib.

For a Sick Soldier or Seaman

265

A Prayer to be used by a Person afflicted with a

Distemper of long continuance

ib.

OCCASIONAL PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONS FOR THE SICK AND

A Prayer to be used on the Death of a Friend

266

CXTORTUNATE IN EXTRAORDINARY CASES.

A Prayer to be used by a Person troubled in Mind ib

A Prayer to be used by an Old Person

ib

A Prayer for a person whose Illness is chiefly For a Person condemned to die

ib.

brought on him by some calamitous Disaster or A Prayer of Preparation for Death :

267

Loss, as of Estate, Relations, or Friends, &c.

260 The Ministration of Public Baptism of Infants, to

For a Person who, by any calamitous Disaster, hath

be used in Churches

ib.

broken any of his Bones, or is very much bruised The Ministration of Private Baptism of Children

and hurt in his body

ib.

in Houses

269

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A VIEW OF THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.

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Preparatory Considerations.-Of the antecedent

credibility of miracles

271

PART I.

OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY,

AND WHEREIN IT IS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE EVIDENCE

ALLEGED FOR OTHER MIRACLES.

• 287

PROPOSITION I.

That there is satisfactory evidence that many, pro-

fosing to be original witnesses of the Christian

iniracles passed their lives in labours, dangers,

an i sifferings, voluntarily undergone in attesta.

tion of the accounts which they delivered, and

solely in consequence of their belief of those ac.

counts; and that they also submitted, from the

saine motives, to new rules of conduct

274

CHAP. I. Evidence of the sufferings of the first

propagators of Christianity, from the nature of the

ib.

CHUP, JL Évidence of the sufferings of the firsi

propagators of Christianity, from Profane Testi-

CHAP. III. Indirect evidence of the sufferings of

the first propagators of Christianity, from the

Scriptures and other ancient Christian writings 279

CHAP. IV. Direct evidence of the same.

280

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CHAP. V. Observations upon the preceding evi.

dence

284

CHAP. VI. "That the story, for which the firse pro:

pagators of Christianity suffered, was miraculous 286

CHAP. VII. That it was, in the main, the story

which we have now proved by indirect considera.

tions

CHAP: vuiThe same proved, from the authority

of our historical Scriptures

291

CHAP. IX. Of the authenticity of the historical

Scriptures, in eleren Sections

295

Sect. I. Quotations of the historical Scriptures

by ancient Christian writers

297

Sect. II. Of the peculiar respect with which they

were quoted

304

Sect. III. The Scriptures were in very early times

collected into a distinct volume

306

Sect. IV. And distinguished by appropriate

names and titles of respect

307

Secr. V. Were publicly read and expounded in

the religious assenıblies of the early Christians ib.

SECT. VI. Commentaries, &c. were anciently

written upon the Scriptures

308

Sect. VII. They were received by ancient Chris.

tians of ditferent sects and persuasions

310

Sect. VIII. The four Gospels, the Acts of the

Apostles, thirteen Epistles of St. Paul, the First

Epistle of John, and the first of Peter, were re.

ceived without doubt by those who doubted

concerning the other books of our present canon 312

Sect. IX. Our present Gospels were considered
by the adversaries of Christianity, as contain

277

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ing the accounts upon which the religion was CHAP. IV. Identity of Christ's character

341

founded

. 313 CHAP. V. Originality of our Saviour's character 345

Secr. X. Formal catalogues of authentic Scrip CHAP. VI. Conformity of the facts occasionally

tures were published, in all which our present mentioned or referred to in Scripture, with the

Sacred histories were included.

state of things in those times, as represented by

SECT. XI. These propositions cannot be predicated foreign and independent accounts

ib.

of any of those books which are commonly call. CHAP. VII. Undesigned Coincidences

354

ed apocryphal books of the New Testament ib. CHAP. VIII. Of the His of the Resurrection 355

CHAP. X. Recapitulation

. 317 CHAP. IX. The Propagation of Christianity 350

SECT. II. Reflections upon the preceding Account 361

SECT. III. Of the religion of Mahoinet

303

• 315

OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.

PROPOSITION II.

PART III.

CHAP. I. That there is not satisfactory evidence,

A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF SOME POPULAR OBJECTIONS.

that persons pretending to be original witnesses of

any other sinilar miracles, have acted in the same CHAP. I. The Discrepancies between the several

manner, in attestation of the accounts which they Gospels

367

delivered, and solely in consequence of their be CHAP. II. Erroneous Opinions imputed to the

lief of the truth of those accounts

318

369

CHAP. II. Consideration of some specific instances 324 CHAP. III. The Connexion of Christianity with

the Jewish History

37C

CHAP. IV. Rejecuon of Christianity

. 371

CHAP. V. That the Christian miracles are not re-

PART IT.

cited, or appealed to, by early Christian writers

themselves, so fully or frequently as might have

OF THE AUXILIARY EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.

been expected

375

CHAP. VI. Want of universality in the knowledge

CILAP. I. Prophecy

326 and reception of Christianity, and of greater

CHAP. II. The Morality of the Gospel

329

clearness in the evidence

377

CHAP. III The Candour of the Writers of the New CHAP. VII. "The supposed Effects of Christianity 3-0

Testament

338 CHAP. VIII. The Conclusion.

.

• 382

NATURAL THEOLOGY.

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435

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CHAP. I. State of the Argument

337 CHAP. XII. Comparative Anatomy

426

II. State of the Argument continued 389

XIII. Peculiar Organizations

431

III. Application of the Argument

390

XIV. Prospective Contrivances

IV. Of the Succession of Plants and Ani.

XV. Relations

mals.

396

XVI. Compensation

438

v. Application of ihe Argument continued 397 XVII. The Relation of animated Bodies to

VI. The Argument cumulative

401

Inanimate Nature

440

VII. Of the Mechanical and Immechanical

XVIII. Of Instincts

442

Parts and Functions of Animals and

XIX. Of Insects

Vegetables

ib.

XX. Of Planty

VIII. of Mechanical Arrangement in the

XXI. The Elements

Human Frame

404

XXII. Astronomy

456

Of the Bones

ib.

XXIII. Of the Personality of the Deity

Of the Joints

407

XXIV. Of the Natural Attributes of the

IX. Of the Muscles

Deity

468

x. or the Vessels of Animal Bodies

xxv. of the Unity of ihe Deity

XI. Of the Animal Structure regarded as a

XXVI. Of the Goodness of the Deity

Mass.

421

XXVII. Conclusion

• 446

• 450

455

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• 462

.410

• 414

• 485

A DEFENCE OF THE CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PROPRIETY OF REQUIRING A

SUBSCRIPTION TO ARTICLES OF FAITH

. 438

REASONS FOR CONTENTMENT, ADDRESSED TO THE LABOURING PART OF THE

BRITISH PUBLIC

. 496