Christian religion, its doctrine shadowed under the rites of

the Mosaic law

v. 295

its evidences why not at all disclosed by Providence, vi. 40
and Judaism inseparable

-

- the ultimate end of Judaism

its nature and genius explained

vi. 4-1

vi. 50
vi. 213

Chronology, Egyptian, a mistake of Sir Isaac Newton illus-
trated by a case stated in similar circumstances, iv. 222
Church, its inducements for accepting an alliance with the

what it receives from the state

what it communicates to the state

Cicero, his opinion of the end of the law
his exposition of the Pagan theology -

ii. 278
ii. 283

- ii. 285
i. 342

his testimony in favour of the Eleusinian mysteries,
his reply to Cæsar's disavowment of a belief of a
state, in the senate

his opinion of academics

his remark on the Phædo of Plato

ii. 29

ii. 57
future
iii. 42
iii. 49-
iii. 90

the difficulties in coming to the knowledge of his real
sentiments of a future state of rewards and punish-

the various characters he sustained in his life and writ-

iii. 115

the belief

his opinion of the obligation of an oath, under
of the immutability of the divine nature

his account of the first advancer of the notion of

Citizen, how man ought to be educated to make a good

one

-

-

Claim of right and freegift, the difference

-

Clemens Alexandrinus, his account of a remarkable symbolical
message sent to Darius

-

ii. 333

-

vi. 269

- his account of the Egyptian characters and writing com-
pared with that of Porphyry

Clerc le, his notions of the Pythagorean metempsychosis

his opinion of the theocratic government of the Jews
confuted

Clergy, the abuse of, an insult upon civil society
the abuse of, an evidence of a weak cause
vindicated against Lord Bolingbroke -

their hard luck amongst modern Freethinkers ii. 216
Collins, his ill treatment of his friend Locke

inconsistencies in his writings

i. 162

i. 175

v. 38

the validity of his assertions, that new religions are always
grafted on old ones, &c. examined into
characterised as a writer

vi. 46

an examination of his discourse on the Grounds and
Reasons of the Christian Religion

ibid.

- his observations on the allegorical writings of the an

-

-

-

-

vi. 94

these observations shewn to refute his objections against
Christianity
vi. 96
Comets, their theory known by the ancient Egyptians, iii. 175
Commentators on scripture, points recommended to their at-

tention

Condamine, his remarks on the Indians of America
Controversy, the arts of Freethinkers in

-the mischief arising from carrying it on under assumed
characters

- when this practice may be justifiable
Cretans, celebrate their mysteries openly

Critias of Athens, some account of, and a translation of his

Crocodile, why worshipped by the Egyptians
Cromwell, his character contrasted with those of his associates,
Fleetwood, Lambert, and Vane

- iii. 263

Cudworth, his testimony as to the ancient opinion of the soul's
immortality -

-

corrected as to his observation on Plutarch
the history of his Intellectual System
Cupid and Psyche, exposition of the fable of
Custom, remarkable instance from antiquity, of its

erase the strongest impressions of nature-
Customs, a similarity of, observable among distant
no argument of an actual communication
them
-traductive, an enquiry into

Dark sayings, what that expression imports in scripture, iv. 168
David, why appointed to succeed Saul

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-

iv. 311

his title of man after God's own heart explained ibid.
the chronology of facts relating to his

Saul rectified

introduction to
- iv. 447
- iii. 269

-

Dead men, origin of the worship of, traced
Death, citations from the Stoics, shewing their notions
concerning it
iii. 103
Debtors, ancient and modern treatment of, compared, ii. 121
-funeral rights denied to the ancient; whilst the modern
are buried alive
ii. 121

-

-

Dedication, of the second edition of Books I. II. III. of the
Divine Legation, to the Earl of Hardwicke

iv. 13

Dedications, absurdity of addressing them unsuitably, i. 141
Deification, when bestowed on any hero of the Egyp-
tians

Deities, Pagan, whence derived

form of the ancient statues of, accounted for
their spurious offspring accounted for -

local and tutelary, their worship always maintained even by
sojourners and conquerors

- various opinions concerning them examined
Demons, whence the doctrine of the Pythagoreans and Pla-

Des Cartes, not the inventor of the atomic philoso-

Devoted, the command that none devoted shall be redeemed,
examined

-

- vi. 362
Diagoras, consequence of his revealing the Orpheic and
Eleusinian mysteries

Dido, remarks on her character in the Æneis
Dionysius Halicarnassus, his distinction between established
and tolerated religions among the ancients

ii. 324

Drama, its obligation to conform to nature in the delineation
of characters

Dramatic writing, remarks on, with reference to the book of

Job

v. 303-308

Dreams, Artemidorus's division of, into speculative and alle-

E.

Earthquakes, said by Pythagoras to be occasioned by a synod

by whom carried abroad

-

a religious war in, and the occasion of it
original of animal worship in

the place whence the Grecian legislators, naturalists, and
philosophers, derived their knowledge

-

iii. 38
ibid.

ii. 72

ii. 304

ii. 306

iii. 32

an enquiry into the state of the learning and superstition
of, in the time of Moses

iv. 79

-

iv. 86

why entitled to priority among civilized nations
scripture account of

-

the antiquity and power of, as delivered in the
writers, confirmed by scripture

-

-

a critical enquiry into the military usages of, at the time
of the Trojan war -
abounding in horses before the conquest of Libya, iv. 259
why the Israelites were prohibited carrying horses

from
- iv. 261
the laws of Moses why accommodated to the prejudices of
the Jews, in favour of
the ancient school of legislation
fundamental maxims in the religious policy of - iv. 355
hereditary despotism preferred there

-

the government not rendered despotic by Joseph, iv. 373
Egyptian characters, Kircher and Count Caylus, their opinions
concerning
iv. 147. 386
Egyptian heroes, the reason why the later obtained the names
of their earlier gods, explained
Egyptian hieroglyphics, how they came to be, and to conceal
their learning

their change of their style effected by this latter application
of them

Egyptian husbandry, anecdote of

Egyptian idolatry, described in Ezekiel's visions iv.
Egyptian learning, that mentioned in scripture, and that men-
tioned in a corresponding manner by the Greek writers,
the same

no distinct division of the sciences in

how preserved from the knowledge of the people by the
priests
summary of

iv. 178

Egyptian

iv. 96
iv. 97

confined to distinct branches of the medical art, iv. 101
proved to compose an order of the priesthood

-

iv. 104

Egyptian priesthood, account of, from Diodorus Siculus, iv. 90
confirmed by Moses -

their rites

Egyptian writing, the four kinds of

iv. 91

iv. 94

-

iv. 141

-

i. 302

Egyptians, a people most celebrated for the cultivation of
religion
celebrated for religion in the most early times; their priests
also their judges and magistrates
iii. 29
examination into the degree of their scientific know-
ledge

-

iii. 175

iii. 177

in what their wisdom more especially consisted
among the first who taught the immortality of the

soul

local animal deities, among

their charge against the Grecians of stealing their gods;
with their mutual recriminations

-

iv. 250

Eleusinian mysteries, the general purpose of their institu-

tion

- initiation into, deemed as necessary among the Pagans, as