The Works of William Paley: With Illustrative Notes and a Life of the Author

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William Smith, 1838 - 934 Seiten
 

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Application of the Argument continued
43
The Argument cumulative
49
Of the Mechanical and Immechanical Parts and Functions of Animals and Vegetables
50
Of Mechanical Arrangement in the Human Frame Of the Bones
55
Of the Muscles
66
Of the Vessels of Animal Bodies
73
Of the Animal Structure regarded as a Mass
84
Comparative Anatomy
92
Peculiar Organization
100
Prospective Contrivances
104
Instincts
119
The Divine Benevolence VI Utility
175
EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY
197
PART I
203
Evidence of the Sufferings of the first Propagators of Christianity
204
Indirect Evidence of the Sufferings of the first Propagators
212
That the Story for which the first Propagators of Christianity
224
The same proved from the Authority of our historical Scriptures
231
Of the Authenticity of the historical Scriptures in eleven Sections
237
Of the peculiar Respect with which they were quoted
252
Commentaries c were anciently written upon
259
Recapitulation
272
PART IIOF THE AUXILIARY EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY
287
The Candour of the Writers of the New Testament
305
Scripture with the State of Things in those Times as represented
315
Undesigned Coincidences
328
Of the Propagation of Christianity
331
A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF SOME POPULAR OBJECTIONS
348
Want of Universality in the Knowledge and Reception of Christianity
363
DEDICATION
376
The Epistle to the Philippians
431
The Epistle to the Colossians
438
The First Epistle to the Thessalonians
441
The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
445
The First Epistle to Timothy
448
The Second Epistle to Timothy
451
The Epistle to Titus
455
The Epistle to Philemon
458
The Subscriptions of the Epistles XVI The Conclusion
460
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
473
DEDICATION
476
PREFACE
477
The Necessity of General Rules
481
Definition and Use of the Science
483
The Law of Honour III The Law of the Land
484
The Scriptures
485
The Moral Sense VI Human Happiness
486
MORAL OBLIGATIONS CHAP I The Question Why am I obliged to keep my Word? considered
500
What we mean when we say a Man is obliged to do a thing?
501
RELATIVE DUTIES PART I OF RELATIVE DUTIES WHICH ARE DETERMINATE CHAP I Of Property II The Use of the Institution of Property
515
The History of Property IV In what the Right of Property is founded
517
Promises VI Contracts
520
Contracts of LabourCommissions XIII Contracts of LabourPartnership XIV Contracts of LabourOffices XV Lies
532
CharityProfessional Assistance
553
CharityPecuniary Bounty
555
Resentment
559
Revenge
561
Duelling
562
Litigation
564
Gratitude
565
Slander
566
TUTION OF THE SEXES AND OF THE CRIMES OPPOSED
568
Marriage
580
The Duty of Children 1
588
Suicide
595
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE
619
Scriptures
629
as subservient thereto
681
Seriousness in Religion indispensable above all other Dispositions
713
Taste for Devotion
719
The Love of God
724
Meditating upon Religion
728
Of the State after Death
731
On Purity of the Heart and Affections
734
Of the Doctrine of Conversion
737
Prayer in Imitation of Christ
742
On Filial Piety
744
To think less of our Virtues and more of our Sins Part 1
747
To think less of our Virtues and more of our Sins Part 2
751
Salvation for Penitent Sinners
755
Sins of the Fathers upon the Children
758
How Virtue produces Belief and Vice Unbelief
761
Johns Message to Jesus
764
On Insensibility to Offences
767
Seriousness of Disposition necessary
769
The Efficacy of the Death of Christ
772
All stand in Need of a Redeemer
775
The Efficacy of the Death of Christ consistent with the necessity of a good Life the one being the Cause the other the Condition of Salvation
778
Pure Religion
781
The Agency of Jesus Christ since his Ascension
784
Of Spiritual Influence in general Part 1
789
Preservation and Recovery from
817
SERMONS ON PUBLIC OCCASIONS
830
Preached at the Assizes of Durham
854
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860
Of applying spiritual Remedies to the unreasonable Fears
867
THE COMMUNION OF THE SICK
876
A general Prayer for the Acceptance of our Devotions for the Sick
882
A Prayer for a Person in the Beginning of his Sickness
886
For a Person when Danger is apprehended by excessive Sleep
892
A general Prayer for Preparation and Readiness to die
898
For a Person in the Small Pox or any suchlike raging infectious Disease
904
For natural Fools or Madmen
908
THE MINISTRATION OF PRIVATE BAPTISM OF CHILDREN IN HOUSES 917
917
Reasons for Contentment addressed to the Labouring Part of the British
929

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