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CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

MAN IMMORTAL AND ACCOUNTABLE; a doctrine of Natural Religion,
confirmed by Revelation; opening a source of consolation for the afflicted,
prompting to holy action, and taking away, from the practical believer, the
fear of death,

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LECTURE II.

IN TWO PARTS.

THE SCRIPTURES THE ONLY SUre Guide of LIFE; with remarks on the
manner of using them, so as to secure this guidance; or the insufficiency
of Instinct and Conscience and Reason, without the aid of Revelation, to
bring men to the knowledge of religious truth and the practice of virtue,
and thus to lead them to happiness and heaven,

LECTURE III.

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CHRISTIAN FAITH THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER; a faith
implying confidence in the testimony of God concerning his Son, involving
a concurrence of the will and affections with the conviction of the under-
standing, furnishing a principle of holy obedience to divine authority, and
laying the only sure foundation for Christian character,

LECTURE IV.

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CHRISTIAN COURAGE; or courage united with fortitude, under the influ-
ence of Christian principle, necessary to exalted Christian character; and
when thus united and directed productive of the highest happiness and the
most extended usefulness,

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LECTURE V.

CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE; as distinguished from Christian faith and hu-
man learning; growing out of Christian experience and holy action; en-
larging the capacity for enjoyment and increasing the power of doing good;
and furnishing the only security against Bigotry and Fanaticism,

LECTURE VI.

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TEMPERANCE OR Self-governmenT; under the influence of Christian
principle, restraining passion, guiding appetite and regulating all the affec-
tions of the soul,

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LECTURES

ON

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER.

BY

JOSHUA BATES, D. D.

PASTOR OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN DUDLEY, MASS.

ANDOVER:

PRINTED BY ALLEN, MORRILL & WARD WELL.

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