.

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LIFE OF THE AUTHOR

ix CHAP. XI. Contracts of Labour Service

35

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

59

XVII. Oath in Evidence

61

XVIII. Oath of Allegiance

ib.

DEDICATION

XIX. Oath against Bribery in the Election

Preras

xxiii

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

64

BOOK I.

PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS.

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 Duties which are indeterminate.

30

VIL. Virtue

34 CHAP. I. Charity

66

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

74

IL The Question, Why am I obliged to keep

XII. Slander

75

my word? resumed

ib.

IV. The Will of God

38

V. The Divine Benevolence

VI. Utility,

39

VII. The Necessity of General Rules ib.

BOOK III.

VIIL. The Consideration of General Con.

sequences pursued

40

PART III.

IX. Or Right

41

X The Division of Rights

Of Relative Duties which result from the constitution of

XI. The General Rights of Mankind :

the Sexes.

• 43

CHAP. I. Of the Public Use of Marriage Institu-

tions

75

JI. Fornication

BOOK III.

III. Seduction

77

IV. Adultery

. 78

RELATIVE DUTIES.

V. Incest

. 79

VI. Polygamy

SO

PART I.

VII. Of Divorce

81

83

Of Relative Duties which are determinate.

VIII. Marriage

IX. Of the Duty of Parents

84

CHAP. I. Of Property

45

88

X. The Rights of Parents

IL 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. Contrasts

51

BOOK IV.

VIL 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

90

X. Contracts concerning the lending of

BOOK V.

BOOK VI.

DUTIES TOWARDS GOD.

ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE.

Page

Page

CHAP. I. Division of these Duties

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

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

II. How Subjection to Civil Government is

so far as the same appear from the

maintained

. 110

Light of Nature

95 III. The Duty of Submission to Civil 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. Or Private Prayer, Family Prayer, and

in the Christian Scriptures

115

Public Worship

97

V. Or Civil Liberty

V. of Forms of Prayer in Public Worship 99

VI. Or different forms of Government . 119

VI. Of the Use of Sabbatical Institutions 101

VII. Of the British Constitution

122

VII. Of the Scripture Account of Sabbatical

VIII. Of the Administration of Justice

Institutions.

102

IX. Of Crimes and Punishments

136

VIII. By what acts and Omission's the

x. of religious Establishments and of To:

Duties of the Christian Sabbath is

leration

142

violated

105 XI. Of Population and Provision; and of

IX. Or Reverencing the Deity

106

Agriculture and Commerce, as subser-

vient thereto

150

XII. Of War, and of Military Establish:

ments

160

. 117

• 129

HORÆ PAULINÆ:

OR,

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

CHAP. I. Exposition of the Argument

II. The Epistle to the Romans

III. The First Epistle to the Corinthians

IV. Second Epistle to the Corinthians

V. The Epistle to the Galatians

VI. The Epistle to the Ephesians

VII. The Epistle to the Philippians

VIII. The Epistle to the Colossians

Page

Page

166 CHAP. IX. The First Epistle to the Thessalonians 211

169

X. Second Epistle to the Thessalonians 214

176

XI. The First Epistle to Timothy

216

181

XII. The Second Epistle to Timothy

190

XIII. The Epistle to Titus

221

198

XIV. The Epistle to Philemon

206

XV. The Subscriptions of the Epistles

224

209

XVI. The Conclusion .

226

. 218

.223

THE CLERGYMAN'S COMPANION IN VISITING THE SICK.

.248

• 249

THE MANNER OF VISITING THE SICK.

Page

Page Particular Prayers for the Sick

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

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

Arguments 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.

ness

250

Conscience, and the careless Sinner

237

For Thankfulness in Sickness

ib.

SECT. IV. Of applying spiritual Remedies to the

unreasonable Fears and Dejections of the Sick

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

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

SECT. V. Considerations against Presumption

In behalf of the Sick Person, when he finds any

Abatement of his Distemper

ib.

The Order for the Visitation of the Sick

212 For one who is dangerously ill

ib,

The Cominunion of the Sick

Proper Collects that may be used with any of

For a Sick Person when Sickness continues long

ib.

upon him

the Prayers for the Sick

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.

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK, viz.

For a Sick Penitent

ib.

For a Sick Person who intends to receive ibe blessed

A general Prayer for the Acceptance of our Devo-

247

Page

.

262

to die

Page

To be said when the Sick Person grows light-headed 253 For a Person that is afflicted with grievous Paing

Pora Person when Danger is apprehended by exces.

of his Body

260

sive Sleep

254 For one who is troubled with acute Pains of the

For a Person lying insensible on a sick-bed

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

261

For one wbo is hardened and impenitent 255 For a Person in the small-Pos, or any such-like

For 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

For a Woman who cannot be delivered without

Disease.

ib.

Difficulty and Hazard

256 Por a Person who is Jame in his Sickness

ib.

For Grace and Assistance for a Woman after De- For one that is Bed-ridden

livery, 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 Health, is sud- choly and Dejection of Spirit

ib.
denly seized with the Symptoms of Death 257 For the same

ib.

For a diek 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 general Prayer for Preparation and Readiness and Scruples about his Duty

203
ib. For one who is disturbed with wicked and blas-
A commendatory Prayer for a Sick Person at the phemous Thoughts

ib.

pint of Departure

258 For one who is allicted with a profane Mistrust of

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

Form of recominending 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 of 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 åfflicied with a

ib.

OCCASIOS AL PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONS FOR THE SICK AND A Prayer to be used on the Death of a Friend

Distemper of long continuance

266

USTORTUXATE 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.
broright on him by some calamitous Disaster or A Prayer of Preparation for Death :
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 burt in his body

ib. in Houses

269

267

A VIEW OF THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.

Page

Preparatory Considerations.-Of the antecedent

credibility of miracles

271

PART L

OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY,

AND WHEREIN IT 18 DISTINGUISHED FROM THE EVIDENCE

ALLEGED FOR OTHER MIRACLES.

287

PROPOSITION I.

That there is satisfactory evidence that many, pro-

fxing to be original witnesses of the Christian

muracles, passed their lives in labours, dangers,

and sufferings, voluntarily undergone in attesta-

tion of the accounts which they delivered, and

solety in consequence of their belief of those ac-

Chants; and that they also submitted, from the

came motives, to new rules of conduct

274

CHAP. I Evidence of the sufferings of the first
projagators of Christianity, from the nature of the

ib.
CHAP. IL Evidence 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

&criptures and other ancient Christian writings 279
CHAP. IV. Direct evidence of the same ,

Page

CHAP. V. Observations upon the preceding evi.

dence

284

CHAP. VI. 'That the story, for which the firsi

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. vii. The same proved, from the authority

of our historical Scriptures

291

CHAP. IX. Or the authenticity of the historicai

Scriptures, in eleren Sections

295

Secr. 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 assemblies 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 different 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

. 341

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

founded

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

Sect. 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.

315 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 History of the Resurrection 355

CHAP. X. Recapitulation

317 CHAP. IX. The Propagation of Christianity 356

SECT. II. Reflections upon the preceding Account 361

Sect. III. Of the religion of Mahomet

303

OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.

. 370

PROPOSITION II.

PART III.

CHAP. I. That there is not satisfactory evidence,

A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF SOME POPOLAR OBJECTIONS.

that persons pretending to be original witnesses of

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

manner, in attestation of the accounts which they

367

delivered, and solely in consequence of their be-

CHAP. II. Erroneous Opinions imputed to the

lief of the truth of those accounts

318 Apostles

369

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

the Jewish History

CHAP. IV. Rejection 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

CHAP. 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 380

Testament

338 CHAP. VIII. The Conclusion

382

NATURAL THEOLOGY.

Paga

.

• 433

.

Page

CHAP. I. State of the Argument

387 CHAP. XII. Comparative Anatomy

426

II. State of the Argument continued

XIII. Peculiar Organizations

431

III. Application of the Argument

390

XIV. Prospective Contrivances

IV. Of the Succession of Plants and Ani.

XV. Relations

435

mals.

396 XVI. Compensation

438

V. Application of the Argument continued 397 XVII. The Relation of animated Bodies to

VI. The Argument cumulative

401

Inanimate Nature

440

VII. Or the Mechanical and Immechanical

XVIII. Or Instincts

442

Parts and Functions of Animals and

XIX. Of Insects

446

Vegetables

ib.

XX. Of Plants

450

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 462

Of the Joints

407

XXIV. Of the Natural Attributes of the

IX. Of the Muscles

410

Deity

X. Of the Vessels of Animal Bodies 414 xxv. or the Unity of the Deity

XI. Of the Animal Structure regarded as a

XXVI. Of the Goodness of the Deity

420

Mass

421

XXVII. Conclusion

485

455

. 468

A DEFENCE OF THE CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PROPRIETY OF REQUIRING A

SUBSCRIPTION TO ARTICLES OF FAITH

488

REASONS FOR CONTENTMENT, ADDRESSED TO THE LABOURING PART OF THE

BRITISH PUBLIC

496

SERMONS ON PUBLIC OCCASIONS.

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SERMON I. Caution recommended in the Use and SERMON IV. The Use and Propriety of local an

Application of Scriptural Language:-A Ser. occasional Preaching:-A Charge, delivered to

mon, preached, July 17, 1777, in the Cathedral the Clergy of the Diocese of Carlisle, in the year

Church of Carlisle, at the Visitation of the Right 1790

511

Reverend Lord Bishop of Carlisle

• 500 SERMON V. Dangers incidental to the Clerical

ERMON 11. Advice, addressed to the Young Character, stated, in a Sermon, preached before

Clergy of the Diocese of Carlisle, in a Sermon, the University of Cambridge, at Great St. Mary's

preached at a General Ordination, holden at Rose Church, on Sunday, July 5, being Commence-

Castle, on Sunday, July 29, 1781

503 ment Sunday

SERMON III. A Distinction of Orders in the SERMON VI. A Serinon, preached at the Assizes,
Charca defended upon Principles of Public Uti. at Durham, July 29, 1795; and published at the
lity, in a Sermon, preached in the Castle-Chapel, request of the Lord Bishop, the Honourable the

Dablin, at the Consecration of John Law, D. D. Judges of Assize, and the Grand Jury .

Lord Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacdaugh, Sep-

tembar 21, 1722

517

• 521

• 507

SERMONS ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS.

• 562

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SERMON I. Seriousness in Religion indispensable SERMON XIV. How Virtue produces Belies, and

cbere all other Dispositions.-Be ye therefore so- Vice Unbelief -If any man will do His will, he
ber, and watch unto prayer. 1 Pet. iv. 7. 525 shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God.
SERMON IL T'aste for Devotion.-But the hour John vii. 17.

558
cometh and now is, when the true worshippers SERMON Xv. John's Message to Jesus.-- Now
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; when John had heard in prison the works of
for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said unto
is a spirit; and they that worship him, must wor- him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look
ship him in spirit and in truth. ‘John iv. 23, 24. 530 for another? Matt. xi. 2, 3.

561

SERMON III. The Love of God. We love him, be. SERMON XVI. On Insensibility to offences.-'Who

cause he first loved us. John iv. 19.

534 can tell how oft he offendeth ? O cleanse thou me

SERMON IV. Meditating upon Religion.-Have I from my secret faults. Keep thy servant also

Dot remembered thee in my bed ; and thought from presumptuous sins, lest they get the do.
upon thee when I was waking ? Psalm lxii. 7. 536 minion over me. Psalm xix. 12, 13.
SERMON V. of the State after Death.-Beloved,

SERMON XVII. Seriousness of Heart as to Reli-

How are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet gion.-But that on the good ground are they, who

appear what we shall be ; but we know that, in an honest and good heart, having heard the

when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

He shall see him as he is. 1 John iij. 2.

538 Luke viii. 15. .

564

SERMON VL. Or Purity of the Heart and Affec.

SERMON Xvili. (Part 1.)- The Eficacy of the

tiens-Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and death of Christ.-Now once in the end of the

it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we world bath he appeared to put away sin by the

know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like

sacrifice of himself. Hebrews ix. 26.

566

him; for we shall see him as he is. And every SERMON XIX. (Part II.)-All stand in need of a

man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,

Redeemer.

568

even as he is pure. 1 John iii. 3, 3.

540 SERMON Xx. The Efficacy of the Death of Chrisi

SERMON VII. of the Doctrine of Conversion.-I consistent with the necessity of a Good Life: the

am not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to one being the cause, the other the condition, of

lepentance. Matthew ix. 13.

542 Salvation.-What shall we say then ? shall we

SERMON VIIL. Prayer in Imitation of Christ. --- continue in sin, that grace may abound? God

And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, forbid. Romans vi. 1. .

and prayed. Luke v. 16.

546 SERMON XXI. Pure Religion.-Pure religion and

SERMON IX. On Filial Piety.--and Joseph nou- undefiled before God and the Father is this, To
rished his father, and his brethren, and all his visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
father's household, with bread, according to their and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

families. Genesis xlvii. 12.

547 James i. 27.

572

SERMON X. (Part 1.)-To think less of our vir: SERMON XXII. The Agency of Jesus Christ since

tses, and more of our Sins.-My sin is ever before his Ascension.- Jesus Christ, the same yesterday,

ne. Psalm li. 3.

to-day, and for ever. Hebrews xiii. 8.

SERMON XI. (Part II.)

552 SERMON XXIII. Of Spiritual Influence in gene-

SERMON XII. Saloation for Penitent Sinners.-- ral.-(Part I.)--Know ye not that ye are the tem-

Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are ple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in

many, are forgiven; for she loved much. Luke you? 1 Cor. iii. 16.

VII. 47.

555 SERMON XXIV. On the infiuence of the spirit.-

SERMON XIII. sins of the Fairers upon the Chil.

. 570

. 549

• 574

• 578