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PRELIMINARY ESSAY.THE AUTHORS ADDRESSTHE AUTHORS PREFACE.AIDS TO REFLECTION.REFLECTIONS.PRUDENTIAL APHORISMS.APHORISM IV.APHORISM V.APHORISM VI.APHORISM VII.APHORISM VIII.APHORISM IX.APHORISM X.APHORISM XII.APHORISM XIII.INCONSISTENCY.THE ORDINARY MOTIVE TO INCONSISTENCY.SUPERFICIAL RECONCILIATIONS, AND SELF-DECEIT IN FORGIVING.OF THE WORTH AND THE DUTIES OF THE PREACHER.APHORISM XX.COMMENT.APHORISM XXI.Knowledge not the ultimate end of religious pursuits.THE SUM OF CHURCH HISTORY.WORTHY TO BE FRAMED AND HUNG UP IN THE LIBRARY OF EVERY THEOLOGICAL STUDENT.THE ABSENCE OF DISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION TO RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES, NO PROOF OF TRUE UNANIMITY.APHORISM XXVII.APHORISM XXVIII.APHORISM XXIX.APHORISM XXX.APHORISM XXXI.APHORISM XXXII.APHORISM XXXIII.APHORISM XXXIV.APHORISM XXXV.ASPHORISM XXXVI.COMMENT.APHORISM XXXVII.APHORISM XXXVIII.APHORISM XXXIX.APHORISM XL.APHORISM XLI.APHORISM XLII.APHORISM XLIII.APHORISM XLIV.APHORISM XLV.APHORISM XLVI.APHORISM XLVII.APHORISM XLVIII.APHORISM XLIX.APHORISM L.COMMENT.ELEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY,APHORISMSAPHORISM I.Aphorism II.APHORISM III.APHORISM IV.APHORISM V.APHORISM VI.COMMENT.APHORISMSAPHORISM I.COMMENT.APHORISM II.COMMENT.APHORISM III.COMMENT.APHORISM IV.APHORISM V.COMMENT.Aphorism VI.APHORISM VII.COMMENT.APHORISM VIII.COMMENT.SCHEME OF THE ARGUMENT.UNDERSTANDING.REASON.SEQUELAE: OR THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY THE PRECEDING APHORISM.COMMENT.ON INSTINCT IN CONNEXION WITH THE UNDERSTANDING.REFLECTIONS INTRODUCTORY TO APHORISM X.ON ORIGINAL SIN.COMMENT.APHORISM XI.PALEY NOT A MORALIST.APHORISM XIII.APHORISM XIV.APHORISM XV.COMMENT.APHORISM XVI.APHORISM XVII.ON THE THREE PRECEDING APHORISMSAPHORISM XVIII.APHORISM XIX.COMMENT.*Answers.*SCHOLIUM TO ANSWER II.SCHOLIUM TO ANSWER III.APHORISM XX.APHORISM XXI.APHORISM XXII.APHORISM XXIII.APHORISM XXIII.COMMENT.ON BAPTISM.COMMENT,Marginal note written (in 1816) in a copy of Walls Work.CONCLUSION.MYSTICS AND MYSTICISM.APPENDIX.

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APHORISM XX.

Leighton.

The difference is great in our natural life, in some persons especially; that they who in infancy were so feeble, and wrapped up as others in swaddling clothes, yet afterwards come to excel in wisdom and in the knowledge of sciences, or to be commanders of great armies, or to be kings: but the distance is far greater and more admirable, betwixt the small beginnings of , and our after perfection, that fulness of knowledge that we look for, and that crown of immortality which all they are born to who are born of God.

But as in the faces or actions of some children, characters and presages of their after-greatness have appeared (as a singular beauty in Moses' face, as they write of him, and as Cyrus was made king among the shepherds' children with whom he was brought up, &c,) so also, certainly, in these children of God, there be some characters and evidences that they are bom for Heaven by their . That and , that patience and faith which shine in the actions and sufferings of the , are characters of their Father's image, and show their high original, and foretel their glory to come; such a glory as doth not only surpass the world's thoughts, but the thoughts of the children of God themselves. 1 John iii, 2.