THE

WORK S

OF THE

&-13

RIGHT REVEREND

WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

A NEW EDITION,
DITION,

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

▲ DISCOURSE BY WAY OF GENERAL PREFACE;

CONTAINING

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER
OF THE AUTHOR;

BY RICHARD HURD, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

London:

Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields,

FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

1811.

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. II.

THE DIVINE LEGATION.

BOOK II.

PROVES THE NECESSITY OF THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE

STATE TO SOCIETY, FROM THE CONDUCT OF THE

ANCIENT LAWGIVERS, AND FOUNDERS OF CIVIL

POLICY:

-continued.-

SECT. IV. The next art was the legislator's invention

of the mysteries, solely instituted for the propagation and

support of the doctrine of a future state of rewards and

punishments. Their original and progress deduced:

their nature and end explained: their secrets revealed :

and the causes of the degeneracy accounted for. To

give a complete idea of this important institution, the

sixth book of Virgil is examined, and the descent of

Eneas into hell, shewn to be only an initiation into, and

representation of the shows of the mysteries, pp.1-210

APPENDIX

pp. 211-263

SECT. V. The next instance of the magistrate's care of

religion, in establishing a national worship. That an

established religion is the universal voice of nature. The

right of establishing a religion justified, in an explanation

of