REASON,

THE ONLY ORACLE OF MAN;

OR A COMPENDIUS
SYSTEM OF NATURAL RELIGION.

By Col. Ethan Allen.

Boston:
J. P. Mendum, Cornhill.

1854.

CONTENTS

REASON

INTRODUCTION.

PREFACE.

ORACLES OF REASON

CHAPTER I.

SECTION I. THE DUTY OF REFORMING MANKIND FROM SUPERSTITION AND ERROR...

SECTION II. OF THE BEING OF A GOD

SECTION III. THE MANNER OF DISCOVERING THE MORAL PERFECTIONS...

SECTION IV. THE CAUSE OF IDOLATRY, AND THE REMEDY OF IT

CHAPTER II.

SECTION I. OF THE ETERNITY OF CREATION

SECTION II. OBSERVATIONS OF MOSES'S ACCOUNT OF CREATION

SECTION III. OF THE ETERNITY AND INFINITUDE OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE

SECTION IV. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD DOES NOT INTERFERE...

CHAPTER III.

SECTION I. THE DOCTRINE OF THE INFINITY OF EVIL AND OF SIN CONSIDERED

SECTION II. THE MORAL GOVERNMENT OF GOD AS INCOMPATIBLE...

SECTION III. HUMAN LIBERTY, AGENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, CANNOT...

SECTION IV. OF PHYSICAL EVILS.

CHAPTER IV.

SECTION I. SPECULATION ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE DEPRAVITY...

SECTION II. CONTAINING A DISQUISITION OF THE LAW OF NATURE...

CHAPTER V.

SECTION I. ARGUMENTATIVE REFLECTIONS ON SUPERNATURAL...

SECTION II. CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROVIDENCE...

CHAPTER VI.

SECTION I. OF MIRACLES

SECTION II. A SUCCESSION OF KNOWLEDGE, OR OF THE EXERTION OF POWER...

SECTION III. RARE AND WONDERFUL PHENOMENA NO EVIDENCE OF MIRACLES...

SECTION IV. PRAYER CANNOT BE ATTENDED WITH MIRACULOUS CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER VII.

SECTION I. THE VAGUENESS AND UNINTELLIGIBLENESS OF THE PROPHECIES...

SECTION II. THE CONTENTIONS WHICH SUBSISTED BETWEEN THE PROPHETS...

CHAPTER VIII.

SECTION I. OF THE NATURE OF FAITH AND WHEREIN IT CONSISTS