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iii. Charitably disposed to the un-reformed.
3.
iv. But not hopeful of a reconcilement.
5.
......
V.
A sworn subject to the faith of the church of
England.
6.
....
.......
vi. Having no genius to disputes in religion. Fol-
lowing the wheel of the church.
8.
vii. His greener studies polluted with two or three
heresies.....
11.
viii. In doctrines heretical there will be super-heresies. 13.
ix. Wingy mysteries in divinity. Nourish an active
faith.
14.
X.
Content to understand them without a rigid defi-
nition by an adumbration.
15.
xi. Eternity of God. With this I confound my un-
derstanding.'
17.
xii. Trinity. The visible world a picture of the in-
visible.
19.
.....
xiii. Wisdom of God. With this attribute I recreate
my devotion.'.
20.
xiv. But one first cause. Every essence hath its final
cause.....
24.
xv. Natura nihil agit frustra. Wisdom seen in all
things.
25.
Section.
Page.
xvi. Two books from whence I collect my divinity.
Nature is the art of God.
26.
xvii. Cryptic and involved method of Providence. All
obey the swing of that wheel.
29.
xviii. Fortune (like nature) a relative term. No effect
but hath its warrant.
xix. Second causes perversely commented on.
32.
Con-
XX.
spiracy of passion and reason against faith. ..
Atheism. There was never any.......
34.
37.
xxi. Credulous disbelievers. Niceties that become us
38.
41.
not. Solved by a divine concourse.'........
xxii. Other niceties, of an easy and possible truth.
xxiii. The Bible the only work too hard for the teeth of
time.
xxiv. Too many books in the world.
44.
45.
xxv. Obstinacy of the Jews. Inconstancy of Christians.
Persecution......
46.
xxvi. All that suffer in matters of religion not martyrs.
It may be homicide. xxvii. Miracles: equal. To create nature as great a miracle as to contradict or transcend her.
xxviii. Reliques. Their efficacy to be suspected......
xxix. Cessation of oracles. Uncertainty of human
history....
49.
xxx. Spirits and witches. Power of evil spirits.
xxxi. Traditional magic. Courteous revelations of good
spirits.
xxxii. Spirit of God. Invocated.
xxxiii. Tutelary and guardian angels.
xxxiv. Man a microcosm, or little world.
XXXV.
The immaterial world. Creation. Inorganity of
the soul.
56.
57.
59.
62.
63.
xxxvi. The whole creation a mystery: man particularly. 65.
xxxvii. All flesh is grass. The soul outlives death by its
proper nature; without a miracle.
68.
xxxviii. Death should not amaze a Christian.
xxxix. In this world we manifest our divinity but ob-
scurely.
69.
71.
xl. Naturally bashful; yet not so much afraid of
death as ashamed thereof......
73.
74.
xli. Unanxious for fame. The world but a dream or
mock show.
xlii. Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures.. 75.
xliii. Some other hand than that of nature twines the
xliv. We are happier with death than we should have
been without it.
xlv. To be immortal, die daily. Judicial proceeding at last day?
77.
78.
81.
xlvi. To settle the period of the world, impiety. An- tichrist the philosopher's stone in divinity.
xlvii. The resurrection the life and spirit of all our
actions. ...
85.
xlviii. How shall the dead arise? Types of the resur- rection to be found in nature.
xlix. Heaven. To define it (or hell) surpasseth my
86.
lii. Never afraid of hell. The servant, not the slave
of the Almighty.
95.
liii. Life an abyss and mass of mercies. God better
to the worst than the best deserve.
liv. All salvation through Christ....
97.
lv. Our practice runs counter to our theory. We
are all monsters.
99.
lvi. Church of God narrowed. We go to heaven
against each other's wills.
101.
lvii. Many saved who to man seem reprobated; and
contrarily......
102.
Section,
lviii. "The compellation of 'little flock' doth deject
my devotion."
103.
lix. Yet I doubt not of my salvation through the
mercy of God......
104.
lx. Who deny good works yet challenge heaven by
the efficacy of their faith
105.
PART II.
i. Charity: without it faith a mere notion. Na-
turally framed to it, having no antipathies;
contemn nothing but the multitude. A rabble
among the gentry, a nobility without heraldry. 107.
ii. Proper motives of charity. A phytognomy or
physiognomy of plants and animals. Chiro-
mancy. Difference of faces.
iii. The act of charity hath many branches. Na-
kedness of the soul to be apparelled. Contro-
versies need not passion. Merciless pens.
iv. Uncharity to whole nations. The community
of sin doth not disparage goodness. Self-love.
Hard to judge others, since no man knows
himself.
v. Unselfishness. Sympathy. Friendship; its pow-
erfulness. Three mystical unions: two na-
tures in one person; three persons in one
nature; one soul in two bodies.......
110.
114.
117.
120.
vi. Wonders in true affection: the soul its object.
To pray for our enemies no harsh precept. 123.
vii. No such injury as revenge; no such revenge as
contempt of an injury. Man a mass of anti-
pathies. Charity to ourselves to be at vari-
ance with our vices.
viii. Father-sin of pride escaped. A common and school philosophy for the reason of others; a reserved and experimental for mine own.
125.