Introduction
Part I: The consequentialist moral cosmology. God and morality in the seventeenth century; Virtue and the divine life : Henry More's moral theology; Teleology transformed : Richard Cumberland's perfectionist natural law; Epilogue to Part I
Part II: Evil and the divine consequentialist. Evil and the consequentialist moral cosmology : Pierre Bayle and British ethics; The ethics of archbishop William King's De origine mali; Shaftesbury the theologian : virtue as friendship with God; Theodicy and the moral affections in Francis Hutcheson; Epilogue to Part II
Part III. The Anglican utilitarian synthesis. John Gay's "Preliminary dissertation"; Edmund Law and the Anglican utilitarian tradition; Epilogue to Part III
Conclusion.