CHAPTER IX.

The germ and the blade under discipline for the harvest.-Contrast and

variety of spiritual experiences.

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85

CHAPTER X.

Individuality and independence.-God in man, not man reduplicated.—

Entire dependence God-ward, entire independence and originality,

man-ward. Helps from Christian biographies.-Supremacy and

power of Christ's example

CHAPTER XI.

98

Counterfeit Bills.-The religion of imitation, not experience.-Faith

trembling and self-distrustful, unbelief presuming and self-confident

108

CHAPTER XII.

Counterfeit Bills continued.-Formalism and Faith, Pride and Contrition

in contrast. The power of the element of self-despair

CHAPTER XIII.

Faith guided of God.-Unbelief left to itself. The separating pillar.—

Sunshine and darkness in the same dispensation.-The source of

infidelity

120

130

CHAPTER XIV.

The trials of faith.-Trials of character, and trials to mend character.—

Inward and external trials.-Christian sympathy

CHAPTER XV.

146

Faith still put to the test.-Is it faith in sight, or faith in God?—Three

days in the wilderness.-Light out of darkness, strength out of weak-

-The discovery of God in self-disappointment and abasement

ness.-

CHAPTER XVI.

Faith an in-working law, with the obedience voluntary; not a despot-

ism, with the obedience compulsory or irresistible.-God working in

man both to will and to do.-Deceitfulness and danger of the idea of

perfection attained .

154

166

CHAPTER XVII.

Faith working by Love.-Assurance not an attainment, but a result.—

Not a direct gift, but the consequence of Christ in the affections.-

Not a direct duty, but the companion of duty, and its after-part

179

PART THIRD.

CHRIST IN THE LIFE.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Illustrations of the Life of Faith in Christ's Apostles.-The Life of

Faith a Missionary Spirit at the very outset, and a life of Love con-

tinued

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195

CHAPTER XIX.

The calling of Philip, and Philip's work upon Nathaniel.-The social

power and impulse of Christianity.-Desirableness of Love to Christ

as the reigning feature in the character

209

CHAPTER XX.

Philip and Nathaniel.-The voice of the Gospel and of Faith, Come

and See!

222

Justification by Faith, and obedience after it.-The Law of the Spirit

of Life in Christ Jesus

CHAPTER XXV.

The Cross daily.-The Morality of Faith the only true and constant

Morality.-Faith the element of power in Prayer

CHAPTER XXVI.

Faith, the element of power in Prayer.-Imaginary Prayer.-Dreaming

of flying.-Wandering thoughts in Prayer.-The incalculable im-

portance of right habits, as fixtures of the soul in Prayer.

272

286

299

PART FOURTH.

CHRIST IN THE SOUL THE HOPE OF GLORY.

CHAPTER XXVII.

Christ the Light of the Soul.-In this world, partial, as through a glass

darkly. In the Celestial world, supreme, entire, unmingled, univer-

sal. The single eye, and the Spiritual body

CHAPTER XXVIII.

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313

The Vision of Faith continued.-Spiritual discernment only from God.-

The natural man and the Spiritual man, the blind man and the seeing 323

CHAPTER XXIX.

Faith's Vision continued.-Spiritual discernment and Spiritual insen-

sibility both illustrated by the Transfiguration

334

CHAPTER XXX.

Faith's Vision continued.-Faith passing into Love.-Self put out by

letting Christ in.-Object of the appeals to Self in the Gospel

CHAPTER XXXI.

344

Justification by Faith.-The religion of Faith and the system of

Works delineated.-Faith producing Works.-Justification followed

by glorification

355

CHAPTER XXXII.

Glorification completed.-Heaven a perfect state, both relatively and

absolutely, but such perfectness not attained this side of Heaven.-

And in Heaven itself, all perfection is in and of Christ.-Conclusion

of the Windings of the River of the Water of Life.

372

DEVELOPMENT, DISCIPLINE,

AND

FRUITS OF FAITH.

PART FIRST.

GRACE AND TRUTH.

CHRIST IN THE MIND.