ARGUMENT
of
the
SECOND
BOOK
.
Which
opens
with
reflections
suggested
by
the
conclusion
of
the
former
.
—
Peace
among
the
nations
recommended
on
the
ground
of
their
common
fellowship
in
sorrow
.
—
Prodigies
enumerated
.
—
Sicilian
earthquakes
—
Man
rendered
obnoxious
to
these
calamities
by
sin
.
—
God
the
agent
in
them
.
—
The
philosophy
that
stops
at
se
condary
causes
,
reproved
.
—
Our
own
late
miscarriages
accounted
for
.
—
Satyrical
notice
taken
of
our
trips
to
Fontainbleau
—
But
the
pulpit
,
not
satire
,
the
proper
engine
of
reformation
.
—
The
Reverend
Advertiser
of
engraved
sermons
.
—
Petit
maitre
parson
.
—
The
good
preacher
.
—
Picture
of
a
theatrical
clerical
coxcomb
.
—
Story-tellers
and
jesters
in
the
pulpit
reproved
.
—
Apo
strophé
to
popular
applause
.
—
Retailers
of
ancient
philosophy
expostulated
with
.
—
Sum
of
the
whole
mat
ter
.
—
Effects
of
sacerdotal
mismanagement
on
the
laity
.
—
Their
folly
and
extravagance
.
—
The
mischiefs
of
profusion
.
—
Profusion
itself
,
with
all
its
consequent
evils
,
ascribed
as
to
its
principal
cause
,
to
the
want
of
discipline
in
the
Universities
.