The Existence of God
  • INTRODUCTION
  • SECTION I. Metaphysical Proofs of the Existence of God are not within Everybody's reach.
  • SECTION II. Moral Proofs of the Existence of God are fitted to every man's capacity.
  • SECTION III. Why so few Persons are attentive to the Proofs Nature affords of the Existence of God.
  • SECTION IV. All Nature shows the Existence of its Maker.
  • SECTION V. Noble Comparisons proving that Nature shows the Existence of its Maker. First Comparison, drawn from Homer's “Iliad.”
  • SECTION VI. Second Comparison, drawn from the Sound of Instruments.
  • SECTION VII. Third Comparison, drawn from a Statue.
  • SECTION VIII. Fourth Comparison, drawn from a Picture.
  • SECTION IX. A Particular Examination of Nature.
  • SECTION X. Of the General Structure of the Universe.
  • SECTION XI. Of the Earth.
  • SECTION XII. Of Plants.
  • SECTION XIII. Of Water.
  • SECTION XIV. Of the Air.
  • SECTION XV. Of Fire.
  • SECTION XVI. Of Heaven.
  • SECTION XVII. Of the Sun.
  • SECTION XVIII. Of the Stars.
  • SECTION XIX. Of Animals, Beasts, Fowl, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects.
  • SECTION XX. Admirable Order in which all the Bodies that make up the Universe are ranged.
  • SECTION XXI. Wonders of the Infinitely Little.
  • SECTION XXII. Of the Structure or Frame of the Animal.
  • SECTION XXIII. Of the Instinct of the Animal.
  • SECTION XXIV. Of Food.
  • SECTION XXV. Of Sleep.
  • SECTION XXVI. Of Generation.
  • SECTION XXVII. Though Beasts commit some Mistakes, yet their Instinct is, in many cases, Infallible.
  • SECTION XXVIII. It is impossible Beasts should have Souls.
  • SECTION XXIX. Sentiments of some of the Ancients concerning the Soul and Knowledge of Beasts.
  • SECTION XXX. Of Man.
  • SECTION XXXI. Of the Structure of Man's Body.
  • SECTION XXXII. Of the Skin.
  • SECTION XXXIII. Of Veins and Arteries.
  • SECTION XXXIV. Of the Bones, and their Jointing.
  • SECTION XXXV. Of the Organs.
  • SECTION XXXVI. Of the Inward Parts.
  • SECTION XXXVII. Of the Arms and their Use.
  • SECTION XXXVIII. Of the Neck and Head.
  • SECTION XXXIX. Of the Forehead and Other Parts of the Face.
  • SECTION XL. Of the Tongue and Teeth.
  • SECTION XLI. Of the Smell, Taste, and Hearing.
  • SECTION XLII. Of the Proportion of Man's Body.
  • SECTION XLIII. Of the Soul, which alone, among all Creatures, Thinks and Knows.
  • SECTION XLIV. Matter Cannot Think.
  • SECTION XLV. Of the Union of the Soul and Body, of which God alone can be the Author.
  • SECTION XLVI. The Soul has an Absolute Command over the Body.
  • SECTION XLVII. The Power of the Soul over the Body is not only Supreme or Absolute, but Blind at the same time.
  • SECTION XLVIII. The Sovereignty of the Soul over the Body principally appears in the Images imprinted in the Brain.
  • SECTION XLIX. Two Wonders of the Memory and Brain.
  • SECTION L. The Mind of Man is mixed with Greatness and Weakness. Its Greatness consists in two things. First, the Mind has the Idea of the Infinite.
  • SECTION LI. The Mind knows the Finite only by the Idea of the Infinite.
  • SECTION LII. Secondly, the Ideas of the Mind are Universal, Eternal, and Immutable.
  • SECTION LIII. Weakness of Man's Mind.
  • SECTION LIV. The Ideas of Man are the Immutable Rules of his Judgment.
  • SECTION LV. What Man's Reason is.
  • SECTION LVI. Reason is the Same in all Men, of all Ages and Countries.
  • SECTION LVII. Reason in Man is Independent of and above Him.
  • SECTION LVIII. It is the Primitive Truth, that Lights all Minds, by communicating itself to them.
  • SECTION LIX. It is by the Light of Primitive Truth a Man Judges whether what one says to him be True or False.
  • SECTION LX. The Superior Reason that resides in Man is God Himself; and whatever has been above discovered to be in Man, are evident Footsteps of the Deity.
  • SECTION LXI. New sensible Notices of the Deity in Man, drawn from the Knowledge he has of Unity.
  • SECTION LXII. The Idea of the Unity proves that there are Immaterial Substances; and that there is a Being Perfectly One, who is God.
  • SECTION LXIII. Dependence and Independence of Man. His Dependence Proves the Existence of his Creator.
  • SECTION LXIV. Good Will cannot Proceed but from a Superior Being.
  • SECTION LXV. As a Superior Being is the Cause of All the Modifications of Creatures, so it is Impossible for Man's Will to Will Good by Itself or of its own Accord.
  • SECTION LXVI. Of Man's Liberty.
  • SECTION LXVII. Man's Liberty Consists in that his Will by determining, Modifies Itself.
  • SECTION LXVIII. Will may Resist Grace, and Its Liberty is the Foundation of Merit and Demerit.
  • SECTION LXIX. A Character of the Deity, both in the Dependence and Independence of Man.
  • SECTION LXX. The Seal and Stamp of the Deity in His Works.
  • SECTION LXXI. Objection of the Epicureans, who Ascribe Everything to Chance, considered.
  • SECTION LXXII. Answer to the Objection of the Epicureans, who Ascribe all to Chance.
  • SECTION LXXIII. Comparison of the World with a Regular House. A Continuation of the Answer to the Objection of the Epicureans.
  • SECTION LXXIV. Another Objection of the Epicureans drawn from the Eternal Motion of Atoms.
  • SECTION LXXV. Answers to the Objection of the Epicureans drawn from the Eternal Motion of Atoms.
  • SECTION LXXVI. The Epicureans confound the Works of Art with those of Nature.
  • SECTION LXXVII. The Epicureans take whatever they please for granted, without any Proof.
  • SECTION LXXVIII. The Suppositions of the Epicureans are False and Chimerical.
  • SECTION LXXIX. It is Falsely supposed that Motion is Essential to Bodies.
  • SECTION LXXX. The Rules of Motion, which the Epicureans suppose do not render it essential to Bodies.
  • SECTION LXXXI. To give a satisfactory Account of Motion we must recur to the First Mover.
  • SECTION LXXXII. No Law of Motion has its Foundation in the Essence of the Body; and most of those Laws are Arbitrary.
  • SECTION LXXXIII. The Epicureans can draw no Consequence from all their Suppositions, although the same should be granted them.
  • SECTION LXXXIV. Atoms cannot make any Compound by the Motion the Epicureans assign them.
  • SECTION LXXXV. The Clinamen, Declination, or Sending of Atoms is a Chimerical Notion that throws the Epicureans into a gross Contradiction.
  • SECTION LXXXVI. Strange Absurdity of the Epicureans, who endeavour to account for the Nature of the Soul by the Declination of Atoms.
  • SECTION LXXXVII. The Epicureans cast a Mist before their own Eyes by endeavouring to explain the Liberty of Man by the Declination of Atoms.
  • SECTION LXXXVIII. We must necessarily acknowledge the Hand of a First Cause in the Universe without inquiring why that first Cause has left Defects in it.
  • SECTION LXXXIX. The Defects of the Universe compared with those of a Picture.
  • SECTION XC. We must necessarily conclude that there is a First Being that created the Universe.
  • SECTION XCI. Reasons why Men do not acknowledge God in the Universe, wherein He shows Himself to them, as in a faithful glass.
  • SECTION XCII. A Prayer to God.
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