Charles E. West: Hobart's Analysis of Bishop Butler's Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature.

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PART I.
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Introduction	13
OF NATURAL RELIGION.
CHAPTER I.
Of a Future Life	25
CHAPTER II.
Of the Government of God by Rewards and Punishment, and particularly of the latter	39
CHAPTER III.
Of the Moral Government of God	48
CHAPTER IV.
Of a State of Probation, as implying Trial, Difficulties, and Danger	62
CHAPTER V.
Of a State of Probation, as intended for Moral Discipline and Improvement	68
CHAPTER VI.
Of the Opinion of Necessity, considered as influencing Practice	88
CHAPTER VII.
Of the Government of God, considered as a Scheme or Constitution, imperfectly comprehended	101
xiiPART II.
OF REVEALED RELIGION.
CHAPTER I.
Of the Importance of Christianity	113
CHAPTER II.
Of the Supposed Presumption against Revelation, considered as Miraculous	127
CHAPTER III.
Of our Incapacity of judging what were to be expected in a Revelation; and the Credibility from Analogy that it must contain things appearing liable to objections	135
CHAPTER IV.
Of Christianity, considered as a Scheme or Constitution, imperfectly comprehended	148
CHAPTER V.
Of the particular System of Christianity; the appointment of a Mediator, and the Redemption of the World by Him	153
CHAPTER VI.
Of the Want of Universality in Revelation; and of the supposed Deficiency in the Proof of it	172
CHAPTER VII.
Of the particular Evidence for Christianity	189
CHAPTER VIII.
Of the Objections which may be made against arguing from the Analogy of Nature to Religion	216

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