Casuistical Writers 521 Importance of Confession 521 Necessity of Rules for the Confessor 521 Increase of Casuistical Literature 521 Distinction of subjective and objective Morality 522 Directory Office of the Confessor 522 Difficulties of Casuistry 522 Strict and Lax Schemes of it 523 Convenience of the latter 523 Favoured by the Jesuits 523 The Causes of this 523 Extravagance of the strict Casuists 524 Opposite Faults of Jesuits 524 Suarez, De Legibus 524 Titles of his Ten Books 524 Heads of the Second Book 525 Character of such Scholastic Treatises 525 Quotations of Suarez 525 His Definition of Eternal Law 526 Whether God is a Legislator 526 Whether God could permit or commend wrong Actions 527 English Casuists--Perkins--Hall 527 Selden, De Jure Naturali Juxta Hebræos 528 Jewish Theory of Natural Law 528 Seven Precepts of the Sons of Noah 528 Character of Selden’s Work 528 Grotius and Hobbes 528 Charron on Wisdom 529 La Mothe le Vayer--his Dialogues 529 Bacon’s Essays 529 Their Excellence 530 Feltham’s Resolves 530 Browne’s Religio Medici 531 Selden’s Table Talk 532 Osborn’s Advice to his Son 532 John Valentine Andrax 532 Abandonment of Anti-Monarchical Theories 533 Political Literature becomes historical 533 Bellenden De Statu 534 Campanella’s Politics 534 La Mothe le Vayer 534