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THE

WORKS

OF THE

RIGHT REVEREND

WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

A NEW EDITION,

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A DISCOURSE BY WAY OF GENERAL PREFACE;

CONTAINING

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER

OF THE AUTHOR;

BY RICHARD HURD, D.D.
LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

VOLUME THE SEVENTH,

Um

London:

Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, FOR T. CADELI AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND,

OF

VOL. VII.

THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN CHURCH AND

STATE; or, The Necessity and Equity of an Established

Religion, and a Test-law, demonstrated. -In three Books,

PREFACE to the First Edition, in 1736

p.iii

DEDICATION to the Edition of 1748-to the Earl of

Chesterfield

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ADVERTISEMENT to the Edition of 1766 -

p.xii

LETTER from M. de Silhouette, to Cardinal Fleury - p.xiv

BOOK I,

OF THE NATURE AND END OF CIVIL AND

OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETY.

CHAP. I. The Occasion and Nature of this Discourse, p. 21

CHAP. II. Of the State of Nature; and the Establishment

of Society

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p.24

CHAP. III. Of the natural Defects of Civil Society; and

the Necessity of applying Religion, to remedy those

Defects

CHAP. IV. Of the Nature and End of Civil Society; and

the Causes of the common Mistakes concerning it, dis

covered and explained -

P.41

CHAP. V. Of the Nature and End of Religion

NOTES on the First Book

p. 76

BOOK II.

OF AN ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

CHAP. I. Of the Nature of that Union between Church

and State, which produces a Religion established by

Law

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p. 86