MORAL PHILOSOPHY,

MINISTER

LIBRARY

DIVINITY SCHOOL
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CHRISTIAN ETHICS.

AND OF

DANIEL DEWAR, LL.D.

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OF THE TRON CHURCH AND PARISH, GLASGOW,
AND LATE PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY
AND KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN.

BY

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. DUNCAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW;

BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; AND M. OGLE, GLASGOW.

MDCCCXXVI.

LONDON:

'PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES, Northumberland-court.

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CHAPTER I.—The Intimations of a Supreme Moral Government to

which we are accountable

CHAPTER II.-The Moral Government of God discoverable from the

Light of Nature

CHAPTER III.-The Moral Government of God is so conducted as to

lead our views to a Future State

CHAPTER IV.—The Distinctions of Right and Wrong, Immutable

and Eternal

CHAPTER V.-Of the Measure or Rule of Virtue

CHAPTER VI.-The Principle of Expediency proved to be False and

Untenable, from a Consideration of the Moral Character and

Government of God

CHAPTER VII.-The Principle of Expediency proved to be False,

from a Consideration of the Moral Constitution of Man

CHAPTER VIII.-The Principle of Expediency proved to be False,

by a Consideration of the Evils of which its Adoption would

necessarily be productive

CHAPTER IX.-The Principle of Expediency proved to be False,

from its Opposition to Divine Revelation

CHAPTER X.-The Principle of Expediency not countenanced by

the Scripture Doctrine of Reward

CHAPTER XI.-The Principle of Utility proved to be Untenable

from the Incapability of Man to discern the Consequences of

his Actions

CHAPTER XII.-On the different Theories of Morals

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