THE

WORK S

OF THE

RIGHT REVEREND

WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D.

LORD BISHOP' OF GLOUCESTER.

A NEW EDITION,

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A DISCOURSE BY WAY OF GENERAL PREFACE;

CONTAINING

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER
OF THE AUTHOR;

BY RICHARD HURD, D.D.
LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOL. II.

THE DIVINE LEGATION.

BOOK II.

PROVES THE NECESSITY OF THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE

STATE TO SOCIETY, FROM THE CONDUCT OF THE

ANCIENT LAWGIVERS, AND FOUNDERS OF CIVIL

POLICY:

-continued.-

SECT. IV. The next art was the legislator's invention

of the mysteries, solely instituted for the propagation and

support of the doctrine of a future state of rewards and

punishments. Their original and progress deduced:

their nature and end explained: their secrets revealed:

and the causes of the degeneracy accounted for. To

give a complete idea of this important institution, the

sixth book of Virgil is examined, and the descent of

Eneas into hell, shewn to be only an initiation into, and

representation of the shows of the mysteries, pp.1—210

APPENDIX -

pp. 211-263

SECT. V. The next instance of the magistrate's care of

religion, in establishing a national worship. That an

established religion is the universal voice of nature. The

right of establishing a religion justified, in an explanation

of

of the true theory of the union between Church and

State. This theory applied as a rule to judge of the

actual establishments in the pagan world. The causes

that facilitated the establishment of religion amongst

them; as likewise those causes that hindered their esta-

blishments from receiving their due form, pp. 264-298

SECT. VI. The last instance of the magistrate's care for

the support of religion; in the allowance of a general

toleration: the measure and causes of it: the nature of

the ancient tolerated religions: how, under the super-

vision and direction of the magistrate: and how first

violated and destroyed by civil tyranny - pp. 298-334

NOTES to Fourth, Fifth, & Sixth Sections

PP.335-390

THE

DIVINE LEGATION OF MOSES

DEMONSTRATED.

BOOK IL

CONTINUED.

THE

SECT. IV.

HE NEXT step the Legislator took, was to support and affirm the general doctrine of a PROVIDENCE, which he had delivered in his laws, by a very circumstantial and popular method of inculcating the belief of a future state of rewards and punish

ments.

This was by the institution of the MYSTERIES, the most sacred part of pagan Religion; and artfully framed to strike deeply and forcibly into the minds and imaginations of the people.

I propose, therefore, to give a full and distinct account of this whole matter: and the rather, because it is a thing little known or attended to: the Ancients, who wrote expressly on the Mysteries, such as Melanthius, Menander, Hicesius, Sotades, and others, not being come down to us. So that the modern writers on this subject are altogether in the dark concerning VOL. II.

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