The Contents of the Several Chapters contained in this Treatise

Abstract

1. The Title of the Discourse how it is to be understood. 2. The Author's submission of his whole Treatise to the infallible Rule of Sacred Writ. 3. A plain and compendious Demonstration that Matter consists of parts indiscerpible. 4. An Answer to an Objection touching his Demonstration against the Sun's superintendency ever the affairs of the Earth. 5. A confirmation of Mr Hobbs his Opinion, That Perception is really one with Corporeal Motion and Re-action, if there be nothing but Matter in the World. 6. An Apologie for the Vehicles of Daemons and Souls Separate. 7. As also for his so punctually describing the State of the other life, and so curiously defining the nature of a particular Spirit. 8. That his Elysiums he describes are not at all Sensual, but Divine. 9. That he has not made the State of the wicked too easy for them in the other world. 10. That it is not one Universal Soul that hears, sees and reasons in every man, demonstrated from the Acts of Memory. 11. Of the Spirit of Nature; that it is no obscure Principle, nor unseasonably introduced. 12. That he has absolutely demonstrated the Existence thereof 13. That the admission of that Principle used be no hinderance to the Progress of Mechanick Philosophy. 14. The great pleasure of that study to pious and rational persons. 15. Of what concernment it would be if Des-Cartes were generally read in all the Universities of Christen dome. 16. An excuse of the prolixity of his preface from his eamnest desire of satifying the publick, without the least offence to any rational or ingenuous Spirit.