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Convulfive motions, I. 254.
Coughing, I. 97, 252.
Crying, action of, I. 147.

D.

Death, the affociations attending the confideration of it, I. 465. Decyphering, art of, may illuftrate the method pursued by philofophers in unravelling nature, I. 350.

Deformity, uneafinefs arifing from the view of it, I. 441.
Deglutition, I. 170, 176, 188.

Deliriums briefly confidered, I. 395.

Deluge, II. 106.

Diet, practical rules concerning it, II. 218.

Differential method illuftrates the method of arguing from induction and analogy, 1. 339.

Diftention, an attendant both upon pleafure and pain, I. 36.
Distortions of the face from naufeous taftes, I. 171, 177.

Doctrine, the excellence of that contained in the fcriptures, II. 172.
Dotage briefly confidered, I. 392.

Dreams, their phenomena confidered, I. 384.
Drunkenness, its phenomena confidered, I. 393.

E.

Ear, the ufes of its feveral parts, I. 223.

Elafticity favours the doctrine of vibrations, I. 27.

Electricity, favours the doctrine of vibrations, I. 28. May be caused by the æther, I. 32.

Elegancies of life, practical rules concerning them, II. 248.

Enthufiafm, I. 490.

Enthufiaftic feets amongst chriftians, II. 194.

Envy explained from affociation, I. 482.

Eternity of God, II. 34, p. 468.

Eternity of punishment not folved by philofophical free-will, II. 65. Not compatible with the divine attributes, II. 419. P. III. 747.

Evangelical counfels confidered, P. III. 635.

Events, all great ones eminently preparatory to the establishment of the kingdom of Chrift, II. 136

Expulfion of the fæces, urine, and foetus confidered, I. 97, 175, 176.

Extreme parts peculiarly irritable, I. 43.

F.

Faces, their expulfion, I. 97, 175, 178.

Faith in God, II. 316. In Christ, how far neceffary to falvation, P. III. 691. What, P. III. 692. In what fenfe opposed to the law by Paul, P. III. 721.

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Falfe,

Falfe, rule of, answers to the method of making hypotheses in
philofophy, I. 345.

Fafting confidered, P. III. 636, 644.

Fear of God, II. 320.

Feeling, its feveral kinds, I. 115.

Figurative words and phrafes confidered, I. 291.
Flashes of light from ftrokes on the eyes, &c. I. 198.

Free-will defined, I. 500. Practical, fuppofed by religion,
II. 53. Philofophical not prefuppofed by religion, II. 56.
Philofophical, inconfiftent with the infinite power and know-
ledge of God, II. 66, P. III 558. Confidered, P. III. 523.
Future ftate, its evidences, II. 382. The rewards and punish-
ments of it, II. 395. Punishments of, not eternal, II. 419.
P. III. 747. Confidered, P. III. 755.

G.

Ganglions, brachial and crural, their ufe, I. 98.

Genealogies of Chrift in St. Matthew and St. Luke, an attempt to
reconcile them, II. 125.

Gentiles under a courfe of moral difcipline as well as the Jews,
II. 134

Genuineness of the fcriptures proves the truth of the facts con-
tained in them, II. 72. Alfo their divine authority, II. 77.
Giddinefs confidered, I. 200.

Glandular fecretion, I. 99, 174.

GOD, idea of, I. 486. Proof of the existence of, P. III. 464.
Good works, neceflity of, P. III. 710.

Gospel hiftory, credibility of, P. III. 580.

Gratitude towards God, II. 321.

Handling explained, I. 104.

H.

Happiness, ultimate of all mankind, II. 419, P. III. 747. Spiritual,
confidered, P. III. 478. Human, confidered, P. III. 635.
Hardships occurring in the daily intercourses of life, practical rules
concerning them, II. 238.

Hearing, its immediate organ, I. 223.

Heart, its force increased during fleep, I. 52. Its motion con-

fidered, I. 94, 243.

Heat, attended by vibrations, I. 25.

Heat and cold, their sensations confidered, I. 118.

Hiccoughing confidered, I. 97, 173.

Hieroglyphical writing, a conjecture concerning it, I. 307.

Hiftory, natural and civil, confidered, I. 361, 362. Confirm the

fcripture accounts, II. 104.

Hiftorical evidences for the fcriptures do not grow lefs, II. 149.

Holiness of God, II. 37.

Honour,

Honour, its pleasures ought not to be made a primary purfuit, II. The purfuit of them to be regulated by religion,

259.
II. 262.

Hope in God, II. 322.

Humility, obfervations upon it, II. 264.

I and J.

Idea defined, I. 2.

Ideas depend on the brain, I. 8, 9.

Ideas of fenfation, their generation, I. 56.

Ideas, complex ones, their generation, I. 73.

Ideas generated by tangible impreffions, I. 145. By taftes, I. 167. By odours, I. 186. By vifible impreffions, I. zog, By audible impreffions, I. 234.

Idiotifm briefly confidered, I. 391.

Jews, their restoration, II. 373, p. 683.

Imagination defined, I. 3. Confidered, I. 383.

Imagination, pleafures and pains of, confidered, I. 418. Its pleafures ought not to be made a primary purfuit, II. 242. The purfuit of them ought to be regulated by religion, II. 245.

Imitation, faculty of, confidered, I. 107, 261.

Immateriality of the foul, not oppofed by the doctrine of vibrations, or the theory of these papers, I. 33, 511.

Immateriality of God confidered, P. III. 508.

Immutability of God, II. 35.

Importance of the fcriptures, an argument of their genuineness and truth, II. 86.

Impreffions made on the external parts, how we judge of their

feat, I. 138.

Independency of God, II. 6.

Individuals their expectations in the prefent life, IL. 359.

Infinity of God, P. III. 472.

Infinity of the univerfe, 11. 11, P. III. 474

Inflammations, the pains attending them confidered, I. 126. Infpiration, three fuppofitions concerning it, II. 80, P. III. 566. Confidered, P. III. 570.

Inftinct briefly confidered, 1. 411.

Inftrumentality of beings to each other's happiness and mifery declared in the fcriptures, II. 182.

Intercostal nerve, 1. 98.

Intermediate fate of the foul briefly confidered, II. 402.

Inteftines, their peristaltic motion confidered, I. 96.

Invention, faculty of, briefly confidered, I. 434.

JONAH'S miffion to the Ninevites confidered, P. III. 753

liching, its phenomena confidered, I. 128.

Judgments made by fight concerning magnitude, distance, mo

tion, figure, and pofition, I. 200.

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Judgments

Judgments concerning the distance and pofition of a founding
body, I. 227.

Juftice of God, II. 37.

K.

Knowledge, the infinity of the divine, II. 9.

L.

Lacerations, pains attending them confidered, I. 126.
Language compared to geometry and algebra, I. 279.

The

general refemblances, and particular differences, of different
languages, I. 281. Ancient ones, obfervations on them
arifing from the doctrine of association, I. 297.

Laughter, its origin, I. 129, 252, 437-

Laws, Jewish, their fuperior excellence, II. 184.
LEIBNITZ's pre-established harmony, 1.111.

Liberty of God, II. 35.

Liberty, early propenfity to, confidered, P.HI. 482, 558, 710.
Light, ray of, agitated by vibrations, I. 26.

Logic, art of, briefly confidered. I. 358.

Longings of pregnant women confidered, I. 164.

Love of God confidered according to the doctrine of association, I.
489, P. III. 655. Our primary purfuit, and ultimate end,
11. 309, 325. Pure, confidered, P. III. 653.

Love of God, and of our neighbour, how taught in the fcrip-
tures, II. 178.

Luminous appearances in the eye, I. 198.

M.

Madness briefly confidered, I. 55, 165, 400.

Magiftrate, the duty of, 11. 305.

MALEBRANCHE's fyftem of occafional causes, I. 111.

Man's happiness overbalances his unhappiness, P. III. 485.

Maftication confidered, 1. 170.

Mathematical knowledge briefly confidered, I. 357-

Mechanifm of the human mind, I. 500. Compatible with virtue

and happiness, P. III. 459.

Melancholy briefly confidered, 1. 399.

Membranes contracted by pain, I. 42. By a ftimulus, I. 92.
Memory defined, I. 3. its phenomena confidered I. 374-

Mercy of God, II. 37.

Millennium, expectation of, confidered, P. III. 682.
Miniature vibrations, their generation, 1. 58.

Miracles of the fcriptures, cannot be feparated from the common
facts, II. 75. Objection to them from the fixedness of the
courfe of nature of little or no weight, II. 142, P. II. 599:

Objection

Objection to them from the inadequacy of human teftimony
to fupport them refuted, P. III, 607.

Miracles, moral, confidered, P. III. 622.

Miraculous interpofitions, agreeable to natural religion, or even
neceffary in the infancy of the world, I. 136.

Mirth, practical rules concerning it, 11. 251.

Moral good and evil, modes of natural good and evil, P. III. 542.
Moral fenfe confidered, I. 493, P. III. 543. The immediate guide
of life, I. 337.
Practical rules for the regulation of it,
II. 339:

Morality, end of, P. III. 459. Hartley's fyftem of in some re-
fpects too ftrict, P. III. 636.

Morality of the Pagans compared with the Chriftian, II. 341.
Mofaic account of the first inhabitants of this earth highly probable
in itself, II. 140.

Mofaic difpenfation confidered, P. III. 721.
Motion, automatic, defined, I. 3. Voluntary, defined, I. 4.
Depends on the brain, I. 7. Performed by the fame means
as fenfation, and intellectual perception, I. 85. By vibra-
tions, I. 86. Automatic, explained in general, I. 94. Vo-
luntary and femivoluntary, explained in general, I. 103.
Secondarily automatic, its generation, I. 104, 108.
Motions excited by tangible impreffions, I. 147. By impreffions
on the organ of tafte, I. 169. By impreffions on the organ
of fmell, I. 187. By impreffions on the eye, 1. 215. By
impreffions on the ear, I. 237.

Mufcular contraction confidered, I. 88. The fenfations attending
it confidered, I. 130.

Mufic, the pleasure arifing from it considered, I. 425.

Mufical founds, their phenomena confidered, I. 225.
Mufical firings, lean to their foregoing state, I. 62.

Narcotics, I. 51.

N.

Nature, course of, in what fenfes it may be understood, II. 142.
Natural religion defined, 11. 45.

Follows from the divine attri-

butes, II. 46. Confirmed by revealed, II. 48, P. III. 519.

Neceffity confidered, P. III. 458.

christianity, P. III. 624.

Syftem of, ftrongest support of

Nerves, capillaments, not tubuli, I. 17. Pellucid, I. 18.

Nerves homonymous, may affect each other, I. 98.

Nervous fluid, 1. 20.

Numbness confidered, I. 131.

Nyctalopia, I. 199.

O.

Obfcurity of the prophecies, no objection to them, II. 157.
Offerings of the Mofaic law, ufe of, P. III. 729.

Omniprefence

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