Cham, none in the Chain of Beings. 117,118,119.127,
Choice, most of our happiness confifts in it. 216.-220, &c.
is under limitations as to its Exercise. 217,218.244, 245.
232, 233. the Foundation of all Merit. 249.
Claffes of Beings down from God to nothing. 117, 118. Il-
lustration of it. 119.121.140,141. the neceffity for fuch,
127,128.394.-402. Anfwer to Bayle's Objection. ib.
Comparisons, the impropriety of thofe of Bayle concerning
Free-Will. 431.-434.
Compulfion, freedom from it not fufficient to conftitute moral
Liberty. 209,210.
Confcience of Guilt and Mifery very diftinct perceptions. 292,
293. 'tis impoffible to have a guilty Confcience without
Liberty, ib. the Confcience of having ufed our Liberty
aright is the fource of all our Happiness. 366,367,
368.
Confcioufness of Liberty proves that we are abfolutely free.
*222,*223.289,290. whether all Men have it. 366.
Confequences of certain Actions not fufficient to excuse the
doing of them. 413, &c.
Contingency as certain to the Divine Knowledge as Neceffity.
392.
Contingent Actions may be objects of the Divine Knowledge.
ibid.
Continuance an abstract Idea. 6. how acquired. ibid.
Corruptibility a neceffary confequence of Materiality. 131,
132.150,151,152,153.
Corruption a confequence of the Fall. 131,132.152,153.
Creation did not add to the Divine Happiness or Perfection,
53,54. why no fooner. ibid. the Effect of Goodness. 56,
57. in what fenfe it was indifferent to God. 266.-275.
Creatures not all made for the use of Man. 117,118. but
for each others Happiness. ib. and 122.126. none
could be abfolutely perfect, 103. whether all ought to
have been made equally perfect, 108, &c. 117, &c. 119,
120. 399, &c. or abfolutely fixed in any Degree of Per-
fection, 109. Objections answered. ib. alteration and en-
creafe neceffary to their Happiness. 111.-115.398.
Death, a neceffary Confequence of the general Laws of
Nature, 131, 132.150,151. could not have been pre-
vented naturally in Paradise. 150,151,152,153.189-191.
the Fear of it neceffary. 158.-162.177. of great bene-
fit to the World, ib. is not the occafion of our fondness
of Life. 405, &c.
Defect, whence this Evil arises, 116. whether all Defect re-
require a Cause. 71,72.
Degree infinite, what is to be understood by it. 89,90.
Degrees of Being and Perfection. 107.116,117,118. Ne-
ceffity for them. 124.127.129.
Defert founded in Choice, 248, 249.352. the Pleasure at-
tending it. 367,368.
Defire the fame with volition, 226. cannot be opposed to it.
227.
Devil, the manner in which he may influence Mankind.378-
380.
Difeafes unavoidable. 131,132.155. Pains of them neceffa-
ry in the present State. 156.-162.
Distance leffens the Effects of either Pleasures or Pains. 406,
&c.
Duration an abftract Idea, 6.61,62. how formed, ib. not-
applicable to the Deity, 69, 70. incapable of abfolute In
finity. 14,15.71.72.
Earth, the advantages of its present Figure. 167, 168. St-
tuation. ib. Motion, Inclination of its Axis and Paralle-
lifm. ib. and 169.
Earthquakes, the Causes of them.
Elect, how far free, 355,356.362,363. the reafon of the
Distinction between them and the rest of Mankind. 364.
400,401.
Election makes things agreeable. 216.220.331,332.
Effence what, 5,84. Effences of things in what fenfe arbi-
trary. 255,256.
Eternal, fomething must be fo. 43,44. every thing could
not be fo. 70. this Syftem could not. ib. and 21,22. whe-
ther the Matter of it was fo an useless Controversy. ib.
Eternal Truths, the meaning of these words. 76.269. in
what fense the Relations of things are fo. 256,
Eternity not made up of fucceffive Duration. 60,61. nor
inftantaneous. 62,63. the meaning of that Attribute. 61.
63.66.
Evil natural and moral, the Diftinction between them. 283,
284. one a confequence of the other. 45.85. how far
either is predominant in the World. 283,284.
Evil Principle, the manichean notion of it. 94. The abfar-
dity of fuch a fuppofition. 95,96. Does not anfwer the
End propofed by it. 97. The Creation cannot be owing
to it. 96. The Argument for it propofed at length. 94,
Evils of Life, whether they ever exceed the Benefits of it.
188, 189. whether they generally do fo. 405,-410.
whether the moral ones do. 420.-424. Natural ones in-
separable from Matter. 131,132.155,-162.
Exiftence, our own felf-evident. 58. the abfurdity of at-
tempting to prove it. ib.
Expanfion cannot be applied to the Deity. 33. either carries
the fame Idea with Extenfion or none at all. ib.
Experience, whether we have any of Liberty. 288.-290.
318.
Extenfion not applicable to the Deity, 33, 34. nor to any
immaterial Being. ib. incapable of Simplicity or abfolute
Infinity. ib.
Faculties fitted to the Natures of things, 147, 148.261.
262:
Fall of Man, confequences of it. 189.-191. Authors that
treat of it. 199,200. Neceffity for it in the Scheme of Pro-
vidence. 361.-364-399. &c. the advantages arifing to
Mankind from it, ib. and to the whole Creation. 363.
399, 400, &c. Objections anfwered, ib. and 414.418.
Fear of Death neceffary. 158.-162.177. of great benefit
to the World. ib. a proof that Life is very defireable:
405-410.
Fermentation the Caufe of Earthquakes, Storms, Thunder,
Figure of the Earth, the advantages of the prefent. 166.-
169.
Fit in in itself, an improper Expreffion. 19,20. what it
fhould mean. 75.—78.
Fitness of things, what this ought to mean. 46.75.269. a
relative Term. 21.77. in what fenfe eternal and immu-
table. ib. and 266.-271. in no fenfe antecedent to the
Will of God. ib. and 259. &c. v. Relations.
Fitness of things to Faculties. 147, 148.295.
Foreknowledge an improper term when applied to the Deity.
66.392.
Freedom of God, proofs of it. 44. of Man. 310, &c. vide
Free-Will, the meaning of those words. 220, &c. v. Will.
General Ideas, what they are. 5. of Subftances, Modes and
Relations. 6,7. how formed. ib. not made by Analogy.
7. have no Archetypes, nor any Exiftence but in the
mind. ib. are pofitive, adequate and univerfal. ib.'
Generations infinite, impoffible. 58,59. the reason for fuc-
ceffive ones in the World. 402.
Glory of God, what these words mean, 56, 57. Defire of
Glory applied to God by way of accommodation. ibid.
how God may be faid to do all things for his own Glory.
55. this coincident with the Happiness of Mankind. ib.
God, a relative term. 72. a proof of his Existence and attri-
butes. 42.-49.
Good is that which produces Happiness. 75. nothing good
or evil in itself. ib. and 217. does not abfolutely deter-
mine the Choice. 216, &c. 350,351. natural Good the
foundation of moral. 75, 76, 77.281, &c. nothing made
fo good but that it might be fuppofed better. 259-264.
Good prepollent in the present World. 420.-424.
Goodness, Divine, the meaning of it. 266. proofs of it. 47,
48. includes all the moral attributes, ib. the reason of
the Creation. 56,57.424, &c. this no bar to the Divine
Liberty. 266, &c. this Attribute not capable of a proof
a priori. 271.
Government of the natural and moral World, the manner
of it. 387,388.390. neither by pre-established Harmony,
nor particular Wills. ib, and 391,
&c.
Habits, the ftrength of them. 451. the foundation of our
Happiness or Mifery in the next Life. 397, 454, 455,
456. Ufe and Application of this Doctrine. 454.
Happiness, fenfitive and intellectual capable of perpetual En-
creafe, 108.-114. requires an Alternative. 114. arifes
from paft defects. 113. Objections answered. ib. whether
there might have been more in the prefent Syftem, 122,
123, &c. why not communicated immediately and all
at once. 398, &c. whether the Sum of it exceeds that
of mifery in this World. 409,410.420,421, &c. whe-
ther it will do fo in the next. 425, &c. founded chiefly
in Virtue, 355.427,428. and Election. 346,347,
Hell-torments, the Authors who have treated on the Eter-
nity of them. 447. according to fome they don't seem
capable of any other End befide the Annihilation of the
Subjects of them. 454-456. have a natural foundation
in the evil Habits contracted in this Life. 398, &c. 441,
442. 451. the Ufes to which they may ferve. 426,
427.448.
Holy Ghoft, in what manner it influences the mind. 376, &c.
this not destructive of our natural Powers. 378. but ra-
ther affifting and reftoring them. ib. in what way we
may conceive this Influence to be exercised.
not properly miraculous. 388.
Idea, what the Author means by that word. 8,
Idea of God, whether it proves his Existence. 49, 50.
Jewish Nation, the manner of God's governing them, 360,
Immutability of God. 44. of the Relations of things. 269.-
271, &c.
Imperfection, whence it arifes, 116. whether properly an
Evil. 121.-126. why permitted. 127, 128.
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