Volume 1 — CHAPTER II.
Reading edition
SECT. I.—Games of chance forbidden—history of the origin of some of these.
SECT. II.—Forbidden as below the dignity of the intellect of man, and of his christian character.
SECT. III.—As producing an excitement of the passions, unfavourable to religious impressions—historical anecdotes of this excitement.
SECT. IV.—As tending to produce, by the introduction of habits of gaming, an alteration in the moral character.