"Slave to no Sect, who takes no private read, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God; "And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end in love of God, and love of Man."--Pope
LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR TO A FRIEND.
CHAP. II.—SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS.
CHAP. III.—SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
CHAP. IV.—OF THE CHRISTIAN MYTHOLOGY,
CHAP. VI.—OF THE PROOFS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
CHAP. VII.—OF THE MYSTERIES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
CHAP. VIII.—MYSTERIES AND DOGMAS OF CHRISTIANITY.
CHAP. IX.—OF THE RITES AND MYSTERIOUS CEREMONIES
CHAP. X.—OF THE INSPIRED WRITINGS OF THE CHRISTIANS.
CHAP. XI.—OF CHRISTIAN MORALITY.
CHAP. XII.—OF THE CHRISTIAN VIRTUES.
CHAP. XIII.—OF THE PRACTICE AND DUTIES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
CHAP. XIV.—OF THE POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
CHAP. XV.—OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OR PRIESTHOOD.
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