CHAP. I. The Question, Why am I obliged to keep my

Word? considered

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II. What we mean, when we say a Man is obliged to

do a thing

III. The Question, Why am I obliged to keep my Word?

resumed

IV. The Will of God

V. The Divine Benevolence....

VI. Utility

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VII. The Necessity of General Rules .....

VIII. The Consideration of General Consequences pur-

BOOK III.

RELATIVE DUTIES.

PART I.

OF RELATIVE DUTIES WHICH ARE DETERMINATE.

CHAP. I. Of Property

II. The Use of the Institution of Property

III. The History of Property ......

IV. In what the Right of Property is founded

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IX. Contracts of lending of inconsumable Property

X. Contracts concerning the lending of Money

XI. Contracts of Labour-Service ....

XII. Contracts of Labour-Commissions

XIII. Contracts of Labour-Partnership....

XIV. Contracts of Labour-Offices......

XV. Lies ......

XVI. Oaths

XVII. Oath in Evidence

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XIX. Oath against Bribery in the Election of Members

XX. Oath against Simony

XXI. Oaths to observe Local Statutes

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OF RELATIVE DUTIES WHICH ARE INDETERMINATE, AND OF THE

CRIMES OPPOSITE TO THESE.

CHAP. I. Charity

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II. Charity-The Treatment of our Domestics and De-

pendants

III. Slavery

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CHAP. IV. Charity-Professional Assistance............... Page 148

OF RELATIVE DUTIES WHICH RESULT FROM THE CONSTITUTION

OF THE SEXES, AND OF THE CRIMES OPPOSED TO THEse.

CHAP. I. Of the Public Use of Marriage Institutions............ 178

II. Of the Duty and of the Efficacy of Prayer, so far as

the same appear from the Light of Nature

CHAP. III. Of the Duty and Efficacy of Prayer, as represented

in Scripture

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IV. Of Private Prayer, Family Prayer, and Public

Worship.........

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V. Of Forms of Prayer in Public Worship ....

VI. Of the Use of Sabbatical Institutions ........

VII. Of the Scripture Account of Sabbatical Institutions 274

VIII. By what Acts and Omissions the Duty of the

II. How Subjection to Civil Government is maintained 304

III. The Duty of Submission to Civil Government ex-

plained

IV. Of the Duty of Civil Obedience, as stated in the

Christian Scriptures ....

V. Of Civil Liberty.....................................

VI. Of different Forms of Government

VII. Of the British Constitution ......

VIII. Of the Administration of Justice

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MORAL AND POLITICAL

PHILOSOPH Y.

BOOK I.

PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS.

CHAP. I.

DEFINITION AND USE OF THE SCIENCE.

MORAL PHILOSOPHY, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing; namely, that science which teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it.

The use of such a study depends upon this, that, without it, the rules of life, by which men are ordinarily governed, oftentimes mislead them, through a defect either in the rule, or in the application.

These rules are, the Law of Honour, the Law of the Land, and the Scriptures.

CHAP. II.

THE LAW OF HONOUR.

THE Law of Honour is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one another; and for no other purpose.

VOL. I.

B