Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen, ter overtuiginge van ongodisten en ongelovigen

I. Of the Vanity of all Worldly things. 31
II. Of all things Visible and of ourselves in general. 37
III. Of some particulars in the Mouth. 46
IV. Of the Esophagus, Stomach and Intestines. 55
V. Of the Lacteal vessels and Chyle-duct. 66
VI. Of the Heart. 75
VII. Of Respiration. 85
VIII. Of the Vascular system. 97
IX. Of the Nerves, and briefly of the Lymphatics, Glands and Membranes. 115
X. Of the Muscles. 128
XI. Of the Bones. 165
XII. Of some matters in respect of certain Scripture passages. 185
XIII. Of Sight. 203
XIV. Of Hearing. 227
XV. Of Taste, Smell and Touch. 254
XVI. Of the union of Soul and Body, Imagination and Memory. 271
XVII. Of Human passions or drives, and briefly of Procreation. 283
XVIII. Of the Air. 315
XIX. Of Meteors or Atmospheric phenomena. 353
XX. Of Water. 388
XXI. Of the Earth. 454
XXII. Of Fire. 497
XXIII. Of Animals, Birds and Fishes. 529
XXIV. Of Plants. 567
XXV. Of the visible Heavens. 614
XXVI. Of the innumerable multitude and unimaginable smallness of the Particles of which the Universe consists. 720
XXVII. Of some Laws of Nature. 752
XXVIII. Of some Chemical Laws of Nature. 827
XXIX. Of the Possibility of the Resurrection. 855
XXX. Of the Unknown. 893

§. I. The true difference between Atheists and those who fear God.
2. To set the former right, the Causes of, and Remedies against Atheism are to be investigated.
3. First cause, wrong self-love.
4. Remedy against it.
5. Second Cause, wrong ambition.
6. Remedies against it.
7. The end of Spinoza.
8. Third Cause: Ignorance.
9. Remedies against it.
10. Fourth cause: too great a conceit of being wise.
11. Spinoza briefly refuted.
12. Remedies against this fourth cause.
13. First Inducement to Atheism: Prejudices.
14. Remedies against it.
15. Second Inducement: wrong manner of describing Physics.
16. Also wanting to derive everything from a hypothesis.
17. Remedies against it.
18. Another Remedy.
19. Hypotheses, for what they are useful.
20. Third inducement: no Final Causes.
21. Remedies against it.
22. Fourth Inducement: Disputes.
23. Remedies against it.
24. Misuse of Academic Disputes.
25. Fifth Inducement: Inattentiveness.
26. Remedies against it.
27. Why only proofs from Physics are used here.
28. Also because God pleased to use that manner in His word.
29. The manner of proof that there is a God, presented in general.
30. A particular way, to give emphasis to the same in some circumstances.
31. Manner of proof presented in general, that the Holy Scriptures are of Divine origin.
32. And in no way the Alcoran of the Mahometans.
33. Short demonstration of what is to be done in the following.

§. I. A small decorative initial letter D begins the paragraph. That there were ever any people, who had not entirely lost their understanding, who would have been so foolish that they would have denied an Eternal and self-existing being, and maintained that there would ever have been a perfect nothing, without there being Creator or Creature, is not well believable; even the most prominent among the Ancients, and Spinoza among the Moderns, although they are rightly placed among the Ongodisten atheists, have recognized an eternal being. The great difference then between these, and those who recognize and fear a God, is not whether there is such a Being that has existed from all eternity out of itself; which they all, at least as many as are known to me, allow: