Occafion'd by the

COMET

Which appear'd

In December 1680.

Chiefly tending to explode Popular
Superftitions.

Written to a Doctor of the Sorbon,
By Mr. BAYL E.

Tranflated from the French.

To which is added,
The Author's LIFE.

VOL. II.

LONDON,

Printed in the Year 1708.

The Contents of the Second Volume.

SECT. 161. Conjectures on the Manners of a Society

of Atheifts.

329

162. That Human Laws are for the most part

the Bafe of human Vertue. Impurity an

Argument of this.

326

163. That Men have a greater fenfe of Honor

than Women.

330

332

164. What, generally Speaking, are the true

Caufes of Chastity in Women.

165. What an Injury the Impurity of Chrif

tians do's the Chriftian Religion.

334

166. A Mark for knowing when an Action

proceeds from the Love of God.

336

167. The true Reafon of one Sin's being more

cuftomary than another.

338

168. Reflections on the Habits of Lying and

Backbiting.

340

341

169. Whether Men have Reafon to think Im-

purity a lefs Sin than Murder.

170. Reflections on the Malice of Evil-fpeak-

ing in fome Cafes.

343

171. Why Revenge and Avarice are fo com-

mon.

345

349

172. Whether a Society of Atheists wou'd lay

themselves under Rules of Honor and Ci-

vility.

173. That the Opinion of the Mortality of the

Soul do's not extinguish the defire of im-

mortalizing the Name.

352

174. Examples fhewing that Atheists have not

been diftinguith'd by a Corruption of Man-

ners.

353

359

175. That your Men of Pleasure don't trouble

their Heads about religious Matters.

176. That Man do's not regulate his

bis Opinions.

177. The Reafon of our imagining

extraordinary Wicked.

Z 2

Life by

361

Atheists