C'O N T E N T S. 



pofed to have been the Beings called, iii 'Scfipture,' Xngels, who had the fuperiiitcn- 

 dency of human affairs.— Each Nation had its Angel.— A bad tranflation of a text 

 on this fubjeft in our Bible.— TZv Sons of God, who, we are told, copulated with the 

 Daughters of Men, muft have been Daemons. — This interpretation of the text fiip- 

 ported by the authority of the Fathers of the Church. — It was natural that thofe 

 Dxmons in Egypt fhould be the objedls of Popular Worfhip there; — but the learned 

 Ecvptians made a diftinftion betwixt the Popular Religion and the Religion of Phi- 

 lofophers.— Pi-oof of this from their knowing the doftrine of the Trinitj-l-l^A gfSat 

 deal of Rites, Ceremonies, and Pomp in the Popular Religion of ^.gypt. — The (afhe 

 in the Religion of Greece and Rome; — alfo in the Religions of the Jews. — Proof of 

 this from Scripture. — Mulic a confiderable part of the Religion of all Antient Na- 

 ^tioiis'j— Very mticli attended to by the Egyptians. — The Antient MuIic among them 

 '"carefully preferred. — Of the Oracles in Egypt. — By them only the Egyptians divined. 

 '__Prom them Oracles came to Greece, but not to the Romans, who divined only by 

 the Flight of Birds and Entrails of Beafts. — Ot the Egyptian Oracles.— Thefe were 

 given By the Dsemons who had Reigned over them ; — difference in that refpeft be- 

 twixt the Oracles of Egypt and of Greece, as well as betwixt the Gods of Egypt and 

 of Greece. — Of the deceit and impofture of the Greek Oracles. — Of the Sacred Ani- 

 mals among the Egyptians. — Thefe were types of their Divinities. — Better reprefen- 

 tations of DivinitJ' than any thing inanimate, fuch as Brafs or Stone. — By means of 

 thefe Sacred Animals, the Egyptians iived with their Gods, more than any other 

 People; — and were the moft Religious of all People; — and alio the Happieil. — Ob- 

 fervations upon the difference betwixt the Rel'gion of the Philofopher and the Vul, 

 gar.: — A Religion of contemplation, fuch as that of the Philolbpher, not fit for an 

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Of Government, and the general Principles upon which it muft be founded. — Of the 

 impprtance of Government, — without it there could have been no arts or fciences 

 among Men ; nor of confequence any Religion. — Even Religion witliput Govern- 

 ment could not have made men happy. — Therefore Government a moft important 

 part of the hiftory of man. — Men firft lived in herds, — then in fiunilies. — E.\amples 

 of men living in that way in antient times, and even at this day. — Of the Union of 

 families. States were formed. — There Government became neceffafyi— Every ^Statc 

 muft confift of the Governors and the Governed. — It is nature that muil fit men to 

 govern or to be governed. — ^The Greek Philofophers have faid too little o^ nature, and 

 feem to have fuppofed ihzX. education 'm^t inatfeir of Gbvernmerit v.ms every thine : 

 '■^Of the difference of men by nature, — fome fit to govei-n, and fomejit to be, go- 

 verned.— Of Heliod's divifion of men :— The firft dafs of that divifioa only fit to be 



governors. 



