THE CONTENTS Of the Sixth Volume.
Reading edition
An extract from Mr. Law’s Serious Call to a Holy Life.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Recommending devotion at three o’clock, called in scripture the ninth hour of the day. The subject of prayer at this hour may be resignation to the divine pleasure. The nature and duty of conformity to the will of God in all our actions and designs.
CHAPTER XIX.
Of the excellency and greatness of a devout spirit.
An Extract from Mr. Law’s Later Works.
An extract from the case of reason, or natural religion, fairly and fully stated. In answer to a book, entitled Christianity as Old as the Creation.
The introduction, shewing the state of the controversy.
CHAPTER I.
Enquiring, whether there be any thing in the nature and condition of man, to oblige him to think, that he is not to admit of any doctrines or institutions, as revealed from God, but such as his own reason can prove to be necessary from the nature of things.
CHAPTER II.
Shewing from the relation between God and man, that human reason cannot be a competent judge of the fitness and reasonableness of God’s proceedings with mankind, either as to the time, or matter, or manner of an external revelation.
CHAPTER III.
Shewing how far human reason is able to judge of the reasonableness, truth, and certainty of divine revelation.
CHAPTER IV.
Of the state and nature of reason, as it is in man; and how its perfection in matters of religion is to be known.
CHAPTER V.
Shewing that all the mutability of our tempers, the disorders of our passions, the corruption of our hearts, all the reveries of the imagination, all the contradictions and absurdities that are to be found in human life, and human opinions, are in effect the mutability, disorders, corruption, and absurdities of human reason.
An extract from Mr. Law’s Serious Answer to Dr. ♦Trapp’s four sermons, on the sin, folly, and danger of being Righteous overmuch.
Some animadversions upon Dr. ♦Trapp’s late reply.
A short but sufficient confutation of Bishop Warburton’s projected defence (as he calls it) of Christianity, in his divine legation of Moses in a letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London.
