REASON,
Reading edition
THE ONLY ORACLE OF MAN; OR A COMPENDIUS SYSTEM OF NATURAL RELIGION.
By Col. Ethan Allen.
Boston: J. P. Mendum, Cornhill. 1854.
CONTENTS
REASON
INTRODUCTION.
PREFACE.
ORACLES OF REASON
CHAPTER I.
SECTION I. THE DUTY OF REFORMING MANKIND FROM SUPERSTITION AND ERROR...
SECTION II. OF THE BEING OF A GOD
SECTION III. THE MANNER OF DISCOVERING THE MORAL PERFECTIONS...
SECTION IV. THE CAUSE OF IDOLATRY, AND THE REMEDY OF IT
CHAPTER II.
SECTION I. OF THE ETERNITY OF CREATION
SECTION II. OBSERVATIONS OF MOSES'S ACCOUNT OF CREATION
SECTION III. OF THE ETERNITY AND INFINITUDE OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE
SECTION IV. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD DOES NOT INTERFERE...
CHAPTER III.
SECTION I. THE DOCTRINE OF THE INFINITY OF EVIL AND OF SIN CONSIDERED
SECTION II. THE MORAL GOVERNMENT OF GOD AS INCOMPATIBLE...
SECTION III. HUMAN LIBERTY, AGENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, CANNOT...
SECTION IV. OF PHYSICAL EVILS.
CHAPTER IV.
SECTION I. SPECULATION ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE DEPRAVITY...
SECTION II. CONTAINING A DISQUISITION OF THE LAW OF NATURE...
CHAPTER V.
SECTION I. ARGUMENTATIVE REFLECTIONS ON SUPERNATURAL...
SECTION II. CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROVIDENCE...
CHAPTER VI.
SECTION I. OF MIRACLES
SECTION II. A SUCCESSION OF KNOWLEDGE, OR OF THE EXERTION OF POWER...
SECTION III. RARE AND WONDERFUL PHENOMENA NO EVIDENCE OF MIRACLES...
SECTION IV. PRAYER CANNOT BE ATTENDED WITH MIRACULOUS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER VII.
SECTION I. THE VAGUENESS AND UNINTELLIGIBLENESS OF THE PROPHECIES...
SECTION II. THE CONTENTIONS WHICH SUBSISTED BETWEEN THE PROPHETS...
CHAPTER VIII.
SECTION I. OF THE NATURE OF FAITH AND WHEREIN IT CONSISTS
SECTION II. OF THE TRADITIONS OF OUR FOREFATHERS
SECTION III. OUR FAITH IS GOVERNED BY OUR REASONINGS...
CHAPTER IX.
SECTION I. A TRINITY OF PERSONS CANNOT EXIST IN THE DIVINE ESSENCE...
SECTION IX. ESSENCE BEING THE CAUSE OF IDENTITY...
SECTION III. THE IMPERFECTION OF KNOWLEDGE...
CHAPTER X.
SECTION I. OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF MAN, IN MOSES'S PARADISE...
SECTION II. POINTING OUT THE NATURAL IMPOSSIBILITY OF ALL AND EVERY...
SECTION III. OF THE ORIGIN OF THE DEVIL OR OF MORAL EVIL...
CHAPTER XI.
SECTION I. IMPUTATION CANNOT CHANGE, ALIENATE OR TRANSFER...
SECTION II. THE MORAL RECTITUDE OF THINGS FORECLOSES...
SECTION III. CONTAINING REMARKS ON THE ATONEMENT...
SECTION IV. REMARKS ON REDEMPTION, WROUGHT OUT BY INFLICTING...
CHAPTER XII.
SECTION II. THE VARIETY OF ANNOTATIONS AND EXPOSITIONS...
SECTION III. ON THE COMPILING OP THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SCRIPTURES...
CHAPTER XIII.
SECTION II. OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EXERCISE OF REASON...