Christian Classics
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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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SCHOLIUM TO ANSWER II.

Nevertheless, the factor actual truth having been assured to us by revelation, it is not impossible, by stedfast meditation on the idea and supernatural character of a personal will, for a mind spiritually disciplined to satisfy itself, that the redemptive act supposes (and that our is even negatively conceivable only on the supposition of) an agent who can at once act on the will as an exciting cause, quasi ab extra; and in the will, as the condition of its potential, and the ground of its actual, being.