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PREFACE.

I. OCCASION OF THE WORK.

II. REASONS FOR PRESENTING THE WORK TO THE PUBLIC.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. MAN WILL WORSHIP—HE WILL BECOME ASSIMILATED TO THE CHARACTER OF THE OBJECT THAT HE WORSHIPS—CHARACTER OF HEATHEN DEITIES DEFECTIVE AND UNHOLY—FROM THIS CORRUPTING WORSHIP MAN HAS NO POWER TO EXTRICATE HIMSELF.

THE FIRST FACT STATED.

THE SECOND FACT STATED.

THE THIRD FACT IS STATED.

CHAPTER II. THE DESIGN AND NECESSITY OF THE BONDAGE IN EGYPT.

CHAPTER III. CONCERNING MIRACLES—PARTICULARLY THE MIRACLES WHICH ACCOMPANIED THE DELIVERANCE OF THE ISRAELITES FROM BONDAGE IN EGYPT.

CHAPTER IV. WHAT WAS NECESSARY AS THE FIRST STEP IN THE PROCESS OF REVELATION.

CHAPTER V. THE NECESSITY OF AFFECTIONATE OBEDIENCE TO GOD; AND THE MANNER OF PRODUCING THAT OBEDIENCE IN THE HEARTS OF THE ISRAELITES.

CHAPTER VI. THE DESIGN AND NECESSITY OF THE MORAL LAW.

CHAPTER VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF HOLINESS AND ITS TRANSFER TO JEHOVAH AS AN ATTRIBUTE.

CHAPTER VIII. THE ORIGIN OF THE IDEAS OF JUSTICE AND MERCY, AND THEIR TRANSFER TO THE CHARACTER OF JEHOVAH.

CHAPTER IX. THE TRANSITION FROM THE MATERIAL SYSTEM, BY WHICH RELIGIOUS IDEAS WERE CONVEYED THROUGH THE SENSES, TO THE SPIRITUAL SYSTEM, IN WHICH ABSTRACT IDEAS WERE CONVEYED BY WORDS AND PARABLES.

CHAPTER X. THE MEDIUM OF CONVEYING TO MEN PERFECT INSTRUCTION IN DOCTRINE AND DUTY.

CHAPTER XI. SOME OF THE PECULIAR PROOFS OF THE MESSIAHSHIP OF CHRIST.

CHAPTER XII. THE CONDITION IN LIFE WHICH IT WAS NECESSARY THE MESSIAH SHOULD ASSUME IN ORDER TO BENEFIT THE HUMAN FAMILY IN THE GREATEST DEGREE, BY HIS EXAMPLE AND INSTRUCTIONS.

CHAPTER XIII. THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES WHICH MUST, ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF THINGS, LIE AT THE FOUNDATION OF THE INSTRUCTION OF CHRIST.

CHAPTER XIV. FAITH, THE EXERCISE THROUGH WHICH TRUTH REACHES AND AFFECTS THE SOUL.

CHAPTER XV. THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD WHICH WOULD BE NECESSARY, UNDER THE NEW AND SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION, TO PRODUCE IN THE SOUL OF MAN AFFECTIONATE OBEDIENCE.

1. The testimony of Jesus that it was necessary man should feel the want, in order to exercise the love.

2. The testimony of the Scriptures that God did thus manifest himself as suffering and making self-denials for the spiritual good of men.

3. The atonement of Christ produces the necessary effect upon the human soul, in restoring it to affectionate obedience, which neither philosophy, law, nor perceptive truth could accomplish.

4. Analogy between the moral and physical laws of the universe.

5. Illustrations from nature and the Scriptures.

6. The preceding views established by reductio ad absurdum.

CHAPTER XVI. THE INFLUENCE OF FAITH IN CHRIST UPON THE MORAL DISPOSITION AND MORAL POWERS OF THE SOUL.

CHAPTER XVII. THE DESIGN AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MEANS OF GRACE.

1.—PRAYER.

2.—PRAISE.

3.—PREACHING.

CHAPTER XVIII. THE AGENCY OF GOD IN CARRYING ON THE WORK OF REDEMPTION, AND THE MANNER IN WHICH THAT AGENCY IS EXERTED.

CHAPTER XIX. CONCERNING THE PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF THE SYSTEM.

CONCLUSION.