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[P:0] Preface
[1:0] Chapter I
[2:0] Chapter II
[3:0] Chapter III
[4:0] Chapter IV
[5:0] Chapter V

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[P:0] PREFACE.
                                                                     
[P:1] Origin and consequences of superstition.
[P:2] Causes that have led the author to write.
[P:3] Course of his investigation.
[P:4] For what readers the treatise is designed.
      Submission of author to the rulers of his country.

[1:0] CHAPTER I - Of Prophecy.
[1:1] Definition of prophecy.
[1:2] Distinction between revelation to Moses and
      to the other prophets.
[1:3] Between Christ and other recipients of
      revelation.
[1:4] Ambiguity of the word "Spirit."
[1:5] The different senses in which things may
      be referred to God.
[1:6] Different senses of "Spirit of God."
[1:7] Prophets perceived revelation by imagination.

[2:0] CHAPTER II - Of Prophets.
[2:1] A mistake to suppose that prophecy can give
       knowledge of phenomena.
[2:2] Certainty of prophecy based on:
        (1) Vividness of imagination,
        (2) A Sign,
        (3) Goodness of the Prophet.
[2:3] Variation of prophecy with the temperament and
      opinions of the individual.

[3:0] CHAPTER III - Of the Vocation of the Hebrews, and
      whether the Gift of Prophecy was peculiar to them.
[3:1] Happiness of Hebrews did not consist in the
      inferiority of the Gentile.
[3:2] Nor in philosophic knowledge or virtue.
[3:3] But in their conduct of affairs of state and
      escape from political dangers.
[3:4] Even this Distinction did not exist in the
       time of Abraham.
[3:5] Testimony from the Old Testament itself to
      the share of the Gentiles in the law and
      favour of God.
[3:6] Explanation of apparent discrepancy of the
      Epistle to the Romans.
[3:7] Answer to the arguments for the eternal
      election of the Jews.

[4:0] CHAPTER IV - Of the Divine Law.
[4:1] Laws either depend on natural necessity or on
      human decree.  The existence of the latter not
      inconsistent with the former class of laws.
[4:2] Divine law a kind of law founded on human decree:
      called Divine from its object.
[4:3] Divine law:
        (1) universal;
        (2) independent of the truth of any historical narrative;
        (3) independent of rites and ceremonies;
        (4) its own reward.
[4:4] Reason does not present God as a law-giver for men.
[4:5] Such a conception a proof of ignorance - in Adam -
      in the Israelites - in Christians.
[4:6] Testimony of the Scriptures in favour of reason and
      the rational view of the Divine.

[5:0] CHAPTER V. - Of the Ceremonial Law.
[5:1] Ceremonial law of the Old Testament no
      part of the Divine universal law, but
      partial and temporary. Testimony of the
      prophets themselves to this.
[5:2] Testimony of the New Testament.
[5:3] How the ceremonial law tended to
      preserve the Hebrew kingdom.
  
[5:4] Christian rites on a similar footing.
[5:5] What part of the Scripture narratives
      is one bound to believe?

[Author's Endnotes] to the Treatise.

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[P:0] PREFACE. 
[P:1} (1)Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern
all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always