The Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature - Joseph Butler (1692 - 1752)

6.—A Future Life 02:53:29
7.—The Government of God by Rewards and Punishments 03:25:54
8.—The Moral Government of God 03:46:43
9.—Probation, as implying Trial, Difficulties, and Danger 04:31:46
10.—Probation, as intended for Moral Discipline and Improvement 04:47:14
11.—The Opinion of Necessity, considered as influencing Practice 05:31:44
12.—The Government of God, considered as a Scheme or Constitution, imperfectly comprehended 05:59:52
13. Conclusion 06:20:43

PART II.

OF REVEALED RELIGION.

14.—The Importance of Christianity 06:32:37
15.—The supposed Presumption against a Revelation, considered as miraculous 07:05:23
16.—Our Incapacity of judging, what were to be expected in a Revelation; and the Credibility, from Analogy, that it must contain things appearing liable to Objections 07:18:22
17.—Christianity, considered as a Scheme or Constitution, imperfectly comprehended 07:47:00
18.—The Particular System of Christianity; the Appointment of a Mediator, and the Redemption of the World by him 08:01:21

19.—Want of Universality in Revelation; and of the supposed Deficiency in the Proof of it 08:36:25

20.—The Particular Evidence for Christianity Part 1 09:12:30

21.The Particular Evidence for Christianity Part 2 09:37:57

22.—Objections against arguing from the Analogy of Nature to Religion 10:21:46

23. Conclusion 10:44:55

DISSERTATIONS.
24. Dissertation I.—Personal Identity 11:01:22
25. Dissertation II.—The Nature of Virtue 11:15:13

Joseph Butler (1692 - 1752)

Joseph Butler's great work is the Analogy, published in 1736, and from that day read and admired by every highly-cultivated mind. He was induced to write by a state of things very remarkable in the history of religion. Debauchery and infidelity were almost universal, not