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CONTENTS.

MAN AND THE GOSPEL.

CHAPTER I.-MAN.

I. Conscience Defined, and its Present Condition Described;

God and the Conscience; the Functions of the Latter,

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II. Condemnation and Wants of Man, .

III. The Fall and Depravity of Man; Traces of the Image of

God; Liberty; Different Degrees of Morality,

II. Person of Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ and Christianity;

Humanity and Divinity of Jesus Christ; Systems Re-

III. Work of Jesus Christ; Life and Death of Jesus Christ;

Redemption and Reconciliation; Mystery of Love,

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SECOND SECTION.

DOCTRINE AND MORALITY OF CHRISTIANITY.

CHAPTER I.-CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIANITY.

I. Humanity of Christianity-

1. Its Relations to Religion in General; Christianity

and Natural Religion; and Religions of Human

2. Universality of Christianity,

3. The Folly and Good Sense of Christianity,

II. Different Elements of Christianity-

1. Unity and Diversity,

2. Identity of Morality and Doctrine,

3. Final Character,

III. Mode of Action of Christianity-

2. Individual Character,

3. Regenerating Influence,

CHAPTER II.-DOCTRINE.

I. Of Doctrine in General-

1. Nature of Christian Doctrine,

2. Province of Speculation,

II. Objective Doctrines-

1. Doctrine of God,

2. Incarnation and Redemption,

3. Expiation, its Importance; Manifestation of Jus-

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(2.) Faith a Work; Work and Faith; Faith and

(3.) Assurance of Salvation; Generality of Grace,

CHAPTER III.-MORALITY.

I. General Morality-

1. Definition; Relations to Obedience; Intelligence;

Esthetics; Religion,

2. Principles: their Unity; Law and Duty; Conflict

of Duties; Idea of Duty in our Age,

3. Moral Observations: Virtue, Egotism, Voluptuous-

ness, Pride, Suicide, Gratitude, Humour, Love of

Esteem-Consistency, Power of Attention-Mis-

cellaneous Thoughts: Malignity and Goodness,

Imitation and Singularity,

II. Christian Morality-

1. Its Character, its Principle; and Human Morality

(Virtue, Morality of Respectable People),

(1.) Love in General: Its Definition, Essence,

Principle; Intelligence, Charity, Justice,

Duty, Joy, Humility,

(2.) Love of God: not natural; what it is.--

Liberty.-Self-love. Its apologetic value.-

Principle of the New Covenant,

(3.) Of Men.-Duty of Mercy; Pardon of Offences;

Value of Christian Activity; Christian

3. Moral Studies.-Readiness to Judge; Resignation;

Casuistry; Pleasures; Intimacy springing from

Christianity; Rational Character of the Chris-

tian Life; Sacred and Profane; Glory of God;

Purity; Co-operation in undertakings not Chris-

tian; Patience, Humility, Fear; Individual and

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III. Edification and Christian Life-

1. Happiness; Unhappiness; Murmurings; Trials;

Pain and Sadness; Joy and Sadness,

2. Love of Glory; Habits; Solitude; Extraordinary

Virtues; Fasting; Anger; Prayer,

3. Biographies (Study of Self; Narrative of Experi

ence); Death; Miscellaneous Thoughts, .

HISTORICAL CHRISTIANITY.

CHAPTER I. THE CHURCH.

1. Importance of the Question.-Definition; Society

and Schools; the Parish,

2. The Church and the Individual,

3. Its Mission, End, and Relation to Christianity,

II. The Organization of the Church-

1. Its Constitution,

2. Confession of Faith; its Necessity, Origin, Dangers,

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