CONTENTS OF THE FIRST III. BOOKS OF THE DIVINE LEGATION. DEDICATION to a new Edition of Books I. II. III. in 1754-to the Earl of Hardwicke P. 137 Dedication to the First Edition of Books I. II. III. in 1738-to the Freethinkers PREFACE to the First Edition, in 1738 pp. 141-190 pp. 191, 192 PROVES THE BOOK I. NECESSITY OF THE DOCTRINES OF A FUTURE STATE OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS TO CIVIL SOCIETY, FROM THE NATURE OF THE THING, p. 193 SECT. I. The Introduction, the nature of internal evidence; the occasion of this discourse, and the proposition Pp. 195-203 SECT II. Of the original of civil society; the causes of its defective plan: that this defect can be only supplied by religion that religion, under the present dispensation of Providence, cannot subsist without the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments; therefore that doctrinę necessary to civil society pp. 203-220 SECT. III SECT. III. The arguments of those who deny the necessity of religion to society considered: Pomponatius falsely SECT. IV. & V. Mr. Bayle, the great defender of this paradox in his apology for atheism, examined. His arguments collected, methodized, and confuted. In the course of this disputation, the true foundation of morality enquired into, and shewn to be neither the essential differ- ence of things, nor the moral sense, but the will of God. The causes of the contrary errors shewn: and the objec- SECT. VI. The Author of the Fable of the Bees, who con- PROVES THE NECESSITY OF THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE STATE TO SOCIETY, FROM THE CONDUCT OF THE ANCIENT LAWGIVERS, AND FOUNDERS OF POLICY p. 297 SECT. I. The magistrate's care in cultivating religion, shewn, 1. From the universality of it, amongst all civil policied nations. 2. From the genius of pagan religion, both with regard to the nature of their gods, the attributes |