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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