_The_ INTRODUCTION, 1
Chap. I. _The substance of the account given by the Abbé Boileau
of his design in writing his Book: he seems upon the
whole to have been of opinion that voluntary flagellations
were no very antient practice_, 17
Chap. II. _No persons, under the old Law, inflicted flagellations
on themselves, with their own hands, or received the same
from other persons_, 27
Chap. III. _Voluntary flagellations were unknown to the first
Christians_, 39
Chap. IV. _The use of flagellations was known among the antient
Heathens_, 51