CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND BOO K.

BOOK H.

ROVES the neceffity of the doctrine of a future flate to fociety,
from the conduct of the ancient lawgivers, and founders of civil
policy, p. 127-39.8.

SECT. L

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THE magiftrate's care in cultivating religion, fhewn, r. From the

universality of it, among ft all civil policied nations. 2. From the

nius of pagan religion, both with regard to the nature of their gods,

the attributes affigned to them, and the mode of worship in civil use

amongst them, p. 127-140%

THE particular arts the legislator employed to this purpose: as,

1. the univerfal practice of pretending to infpiration. It is fhewn that

this was done to establish the opinion of the fuperintendency of the gods

over human affairs: not to fecure the reception of their laws; nor to

render thofe laws perpetual and immutable when received, p. 140-

147.

SECT. III.

THE next art the legislator ufed was to preface his laws with the

doctrine of a providence in its full extent. The prefaces to the laws

of Zaleucus and Charondas, the only remains of this kind, proved ge-

nuine against the arguments of a learned critic, p. 147–166.

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SECT. IV.

THE next art was the legislator's invention of the mysteries, folely

inftituted for the propagation and support of the doctrine of a future ftate

of rewards and punishments. Their original and progress deduced:

their nature and end explained: their fecrets revealed: and the caufes

of the degeneracy accounted for. To give a compleat idea of this impor-

tant inftitution, the fixth book of Virgil is examined, and the descent

of Æneas into hell, fhewn to be only an initiation into, and representa

tion of the fhews of the mysteries, p. 166-336.

APPENDIX and NOTES to the Four First Sections, p. 337-398.

THE next inftance of the magiftrate's care of religion, in establish-

ing a national worship. That an established religion is the univerfal

voice of nature. The right of establishing a religion justified, in an ex-

planation of the true theory of the union between Church and State.

This theory applied as a rule to judge of the actual establishments in

the
pagan world. The caufes that facilitated the establishment of reli-

gion amongst them; as likewife thofe caufes that bindered their efta-

blishments from receiving their due form, p. 399–426.

SEC T. VI

THE laft inftance of the magiftrate's care for the fupport of reli-

gion; in the allowance of a general toleration: the measure and causes

of it: the nature of the ancient tolerated religions: how, under the fu-

pervifion and direction of the magiftrate: and how firft violated and

deftroyed by civil tyranny, p. 427–456.

NOTES to the Fifth and Sixth Sections, p. 457–471.

THE END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

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