DUTIES TOWARD GOD. Of the Duty, and of the Efficacy of Prayer, fo far as the fame appear from the Light of Nature Of Forms of Prayer in Public Worship VI. Of the Ufe of Sabbatical Inftitutions How Subjection to Civil Government is maintained Of Religious Eftablishments, and of Toleration XI. Of Population and Provifion; and of Agriculture MORAL PHILOSOPHY. BOOK I. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS CHAP. I. DEFINITION AND USE OF THE SCIENCE. MORAL CORAL PHILOSOPHY, Morality, Ethics, Cafuiftry, Natural Law, mean all the fame thing; namely, That fcience which teaches men their duty and the reafons of it. The ufe of fuch a study depends upon this, that, without it, the rules of life, by which men are ordinarily governed, oftentimes miflead 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 |