CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

CHAP. I. The Connection between the Knowledge of God
and the Knowledge of ourselves.

CHAP. II. The Nature and Tendency of the Knowledge of
God.

CHAP. III. The Mind of Man naturally endued with the
Knowledge of God.

CHAP. IV. This Knowledge extinguished, or corrupted,
partly by Ignorance, partly by Wickedness.

CHAP. V. The Knowledge of God conspicuous in the Forma-
tion and continual Government of the World.

CHAP. VI. The Guidance and Teaching of the Scripture
necessary to lead to the knowledge of God the Creator.
CHAP. VII. The Testimony of the Spirit necessary to con
firm the Scripture, in order to the complete Establishment
of its Authority. The suspension of its Authority on the
Judgment of the Church, an impious Fiction.

CHAP. VIII. Rational Proofs to establish the Belief of the [
Scripture.

CHAP. IX. The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture,
under the pretence of resorting to immediate Revelations,

subversive of every Principle of Piety.

CHAP. X. All idolatrous Worship discountenanced in the
Scripture, by its exclusive Opposition of the true God to all
the fictitious Deities of the Heathens.

CHAP. XI. Unlawfulness of ascribing to God a visible Form.
All Idolatry a Defection from the true God.

CHAP. XII. God contradistinguished from Idols, that he

may be solely and supremely worshipped.

CHAP. XIII. One Divine Essence containing Three Persons
taught in the Scriptures from the beginning.

CHAP. XIV. The true God distinguished in the Scripture
from all fictitious ones by the Creation of the World.

CHAP. XV. The State of Man at his Creation; the Faculties

of the Soul, the Divine Image, Free-Will, and the original
Purity of his Nature.

CHAP. XVI. God's Preservation and Support of the World
by his Power, and his Government of every Part of it by his
Providence.

CHAP. XVII. The proper Application of this Doctrine to
render it useful to us.

CHAP. XVIII. God uses the Agency of the Impious, and
inclines their Minds to execute his Judgments, yet without
the least Stain of his perfect Purity.

BOOK II.

CHAP. I. The Fall and Defection of Adam the Cause of
the Curse inflicted on all Mankind, and of the Degeneracy
from their primitive Condition. The Doctrine of Original
Sin.

CHAP. II. Man in his present State despoiled of Freedom
of Will, and subjected to a miserable Slavery.

CHAP. III. Every thing that proceeds from the corrupt
Nature of Man worthy of Condemnation.

CHAP. IV. The Operation of God in the Hearts of Men.
CHAP. V. A Refutation of the Objections commonly urged
in the support of Free-Will.

CHAP. VI. Redemption for lost Man to be sought in
Christ.

CHAP. VII. The Law given, not to confine the ancient
People to itself, but to encourage their Hope of Salvation
in Christ, till the time of his Coming.

CHAP. VIII. An Exposition of the Moral Law.

CHAP. IX. Christ, though known to the Jews under the
Law, yet clearly revealed only in the Gospel.

CHAP. X. The Similarity of the Old and New Testaments.
CHAP. XI. The Difference of the two Testaments.

CHAP. XII. The Necessity of Christ becoming Man in
order to fulfil the Office of Mediator.

CHAP. XIII. Christ's Assumption of real Humanity.

CHAP. XIV. The Union of the two Natures constituting the
Person of the Mediator.

CHAP. XV. The Consideration of Christ's three Offices,
Prophetical, Regal, and Sacerdotal, necessary to our knowing
the end of his Mission from the Father, and the Benefits
which he confers on us.

CHAP. XVI. Christ's Execution of the Office of a Redeemer
to procure our Salvation; his Death, Resurrection, and
Ascension to Heaven.

CHAP. XVII. Christ truly and properly said to have merited
the Grace of God and Salvation for us.