OBSERVATIONS

ON

ΜΑΝ,

HIS FRAME, HIS DUTY, AND HIS

EXPECTATIONS.

IN TWO PARTS.-PART THE SECOND.

ON

MAN,

HIS FRAME, HIS DUTY, AND HIS

EXPECTATIONS:

IN TWO PARTS:

TO WHICH ARE NOW FIRST ADDED,

Prayers, and Religious Meditations:

BY

DAVID HARTLEY, M. D.

TO THE FIRST PART ARE PREFIXED,

A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER,

AND A

PORTRAIT, OF THE AUTHOR.

THE FIFTH EDITION.

George Taylor

RICHARD CRUTTWELL, ST. JAMES'S-STREET, BATH;

AND SOLD BY

WILKIE AND ROBINSON, PATER-NOSTER-ROW, LONDON.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND PART.

INTRODUCTION.

Diftribution of the Second Part, page 3, 4.

CHAP. I.

Of the BEING and ATTRIBUTES of GOD, and.

of NATURAL RELIGION.

Something must have exifted from all eternity, 5, 6.

There must be an infinite and independent Being, 6-9.

The infinite and independent Being is indued with

infinite power and knowledge, 9—13. GOD is infi-

nitely benevolent, 13-23. Five notions of infinite

benevolence confidered, and compared together, 24

-30. There is but one GOD, 31. GOD is a fpiritual

Being, 32-34. GOD is an eternal and omniprefent

Being, 35, 36. GOD is an immutable Being, 36.

GOD is a free Being, 36-38. Holiness, justice, vera-

city, mercy, and all other moral perfections, ought to

be afcribed to Go in an infinite degree, 38-42.

GOD is to be confidered by us not only as our Creator,

but also as our Governor, Judge, and Father, 42-46.

The foregoing evidences for the divine attributes afford

a proper foundation for natural religion, 46-50.

Natural religion receives great light and confirmation

from revealed, 50-54. Religion presupposes free-will

in the popular and practical fenfe, i. e. it prefuppofes a

voluntary power over our affections and actions, 54-

57. Religion does not prefuppofe free-will in the

philofophical fenfe, i. e. it does not prefuppofe a power