Contents
Table of Contents
SECT. I. Metaphysical Proofs of the Existence of God are not within Everybody's Reach
SECT. II. Moral Proofs of the Existence of God are fitted to every man’s capacity.
SECT. III. Why so few Persons are attentive to the Proofs Nature affords of the Existence of God.
SECT. IV. All Nature shows the Existence of its Maker.
SECT. VI. Second Comparison, drawn from the Sound of Instruments.
SECT. VII. Third Comparison, drawn from a Statue.
SECT. VIII. Fourth Comparison, drawn from a Picture.
SECT. IX. A Particular Examination of Nature.
SECT. X. Of the General Structure of the Universe.
SECT. XIX. Of Animals, Beasts, Fowl, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects.
SECT. XX. Admirable Order in which all the Bodies that make up the Universe are ranged.
SECT. XXI. Wonders of the Infinitely Little.
SECT. XXII. Of the Structure or Frame of the Animal.
SECT. XXIII. Of the Instinct of the Animal.
SECT. XXVII. Though Beasts commit some Mistakes, yet their Instinct is, in many cases, Infallible.
SECT. XXVIII. It is impossible Beasts should have Souls.
SECT. XXIX. Sentiments of some of the Ancients concerning the Soul and Knowledge of Beasts.
SECT. XXXI. Of the Structure of Man’s Body.
SECT. XXXIII. Of Veins and Arteries.
SECT. XXXIV. Of the Bones, and their Jointing.
SECT. XXXVI. Of the Inward Parts.
SECT. XXXVII. Of the Arms and their Use.
SECT. XXXVIII. Of the Neck and Head.
SECT. XXXIX. Of the Forehead and Other Parts of the Face.
SECT. XL. Of the Tongue and Teeth.
SECT. XLI. Of the Smell, Taste, and Hearing.
SECT. XLII. Of the Proportion of Man’s Body.
SECT. XLIII. Of the Soul, which alone, among all Creatures, Thinks and Knows.
SECT. XLIV. Matter Cannot Think.
SECT. XLV. Of the Union of the Soul and Body, of which God alone can be the Author.
SECT. XLVI. The Soul has an Absolute Command over the Body.
SECT. XLIX. Two Wonders of the Memory and Brain.
SECT. LI. The Mind knows the Finite only by the Idea of the Infinite.
SECT. LII. Secondly, the Ideas of the Mind are Universal, Eternal, and Immutable.
SECT. LIII. Weakness of Man’s Mind.
SECT. LIV. The Ideas of Man are the Immutable Rules of his Judgment.
SECT. LV. What Man’s Reason is.
SECT. LVI. Reason is the Same in all Men, of all Ages and Countries.
SECT. LVII. Reason in Man is Independent of and above Him.
SECT. LVIII. It is the Primitive Truth, that Lights all Minds, by communicating itself to them.
SECT. LXI. New sensible Notices of the Deity in Man, drawn from the Knowledge he has of Unity.
SECT. LXIII. Dependence and Independence of Man. His Dependence Proves the Existence of his Creator.
SECT. LXIV. Good Will cannot Proceed but from a Superior Being.
SECT. LXVII. Man’s Liberty Consists in that his Will by determining, Modifies Itself.
SECT. LXVIII. Will may Resist Grace, and Its Liberty is the Foundation of Merit and Demerit.
SECT. LXIX. A Character of the Deity, both in the Dependence and Independence of Man.
SECT. LXX. The Seal and Stamp of the Deity in His Works.
SECT. LXXI. Objection of the Epicureans, who Ascribe Everything to Chance, considered.
SECT. LXXII. Answer to the Objection of the Epicureans, who Ascribe all to Chance.
SECT. LXXIV. Another Objection of the Epicureans drawn from the Eternal Motion of Atoms.
SECT. LXXV. Answers to the Objection of the Epicureans drawn from the Eternal Motion of Atoms.
SECT. LXXVI. The Epicureans confound the Works of Art with those of Nature.
SECT. LXXVII. The Epicureans take whatever they please for granted, without any Proof.
SECT. LXXVIII. The Suppositions of the Epicureans are False and Chimerical.
SECT. LXXIX. It is Falsely supposed that Motion is Essential to Bodies.
SECT. LXXX. The Rules of Motion, which the Epicureans suppose do not render it essential to Bodies.
SECT. LXXXI. To give a satisfactory Account of Motion we must recur to the First Mover.
SECT. LXXXIV. Atoms cannot make any Compound by the Motion the Epicureans assign them.
SECT. LXXXIX. The Defects of the Universe compared with those of a Picture.
SECT. XC. We must necessarily conclude that there is a First Being that created the Universe.