Includes bibliographical references (pages 961-971) and index.
A treatise of the laws of nature. Two introductory essays: Essay I. Concerning the City, or Kingdom, of God in the rational world, and the defects in heathen deism -- Essay II. Concerning the imperfectness of the heathen morality ; from both which, the usefulness of revelation may appear -- A philosophical inquiry into the laws of nature. Of the nature of things -- Of human nature, and right reason -- Of natural good -- Of the practical dictates of reason -- Of the law of nature, and its obligations -- Of those things which are contain'd in the general law of nature -- Of the original of dominion, and the moral virtues -- Of the moral virtues in particular -- Corollaries -- Appendixes. I.A summary of the controversy between Dr. Samuel Clark and an anonymous author, concerning the immateriality of thinking substance -- II. A treatise concerning the obligation, promulgation, and observance of the law of nature -- 1. Richard Cumberland's original dedication to De legibus naturae -- 2. Hezekiah Burton's "Address to the reader."