observed. And when the kingdom of Israel was fully established, and the temple of Jerusalem erected, a worship of the most gorgeous and costly kind was carried on. When the time came that men were no longer to worship God on Mount Gerizim or at Jerusalem, but everywhere in spirit and in truth, still a public and solemn profession of faith was indispensable. Christians were not only commanded to believe the truth in their hearts, but to confess it with their mouths. They were specially enjoined not to forsake the assembling of themselves together for Public Worship. And God, by the course of His Providence, has shown that those nations which honour His name shall prosper, and that such as neglect or profane His worship cannot prosper.
But the great duty which we owe to God is that of aiming in all things at a conformity to His will, and following those laws of righteousness which He has written upon our heart and conscience, and which He has illustrated in the moral government of the world. In other words, the highest worship which we can offer to Him is to imitate and obey Him.
Those virtues which are suitable to our rational and moral nature, and to our condition as the subjects of a moral administration-those virtues which become us as partakers of an intellectual and spiritual being, and as expectants of an immortal and glorious inheritance, have previously been briefly stated and illustrated.
Action, as opposed to Passion, 1; as differing from an Act, 1; functions of Reason and Will in, 2; Indifferent actions, how distinguished, 3; Prin- ciples of, defined, 9.
human, defined, 2; how charac- terized, 3; Springs of, classified, 16- 19; Instructive or Implanted, 19-28; Primary or Natural, 28-46; Second- ary and Factitious, 46-65; Guides of, 66.
Principles of, 7; distinguished from Principles of Knowledge, 8; classified, 13, 14; Dr. Reid's classi- fication, 14, note; Mr. Stewart on, 15; tabulated, 39; the formation of Secondary or Factitious, 58; accord with the law of Custom, 58; affected by Education, Example, and Fashion, 59; dependent on experience of life, 59; effects of Instinct and Appetite, 60; Mr. Stewart on the formation of Secondary and Factitious Desires, 60, 61.
Activity or Will, defined, 9; human, primary source of, 9.
Acts, distinction of, 1; how differing from Actions, 1.
Adams, Dr., on the nature and obliga- tion of Virtue, 116; on the Supre- macy of Conscience, 162.
Addison, Mr., on Instinct, 23; on Cato's suicide, 236, note; on Cheer- fulness as preferable to Mirth, 257; on Gratitude, 354; on the Continual Progress of the Soul towards Perfec- tion, 383. Affections, Benevolent, strengthened by exercise, 63; enumeration of, 63.
Malevolent, effects of their in- dulgence, 62; Locke on, 62.
Affections, Natural, distinguished, 42; among inferior animals, 42; in hu- man beings, 42; of kindred, 43, 63, 64; of home and country, 43, 64. Akenside, on the innate love of Beauty,
244, note; effect of its cultivation on the improvement of the Mind, 245, note.
Ambrose, St., the first to use the epithet cardinal as applied to virtues, 229, note.
Anger. See Resentment. Annihilation, unprovable, 382; uni- universality of the disbelief in, 389. Anselm, Abp., on the Existence of God, 324, 325.
Appetite, defined, 26; its ends, 26; enjoyment in obedience to its call, 28; original Appetites few, those acquired numerous, 28; how differ- ing from Desire, 30; a blind impulse, not intelligent, 30; operates in- stinctively at first, but subject to the law of Repetition, 60.
of Sex, defined, 249. See Self- Control. Aquinas, Thomas, on the Government of God, 113, note 2; on the Existence of God, 324.
Arbuthnot, on the Identity of the Body, 374.
Archæus, Vital Principle, explained, 21. Aristotle, on Causality, 7; on the De-
sire of Knowledge, 31; his definition of Association of Ideas, 46; on Vir- tue, 110; denial of the Equality of Men by birth, 261.
Asceticism, theological and philosophical, 238.
Association, Mr. Stewart on Association of Ideas, 46.-Its influence in regu- lating the succession of Thoughts, 46; Definition of Aristotle and
Hobbes, 46, 47; Law of Redintegra- tion, 47, 48; Tulloch and Sir W. Hamilton on, 48, 49.-As forming permanent combinations of Thoughts and Feelings, 49; distinction of As- sociated Ideas and Complex Ideas, 49, 50; Association of different men- tal movements, not juxtaposition but combination, 50.
Attributes of God:-J. Natural Attri-
butes, 346: (1) Personality, 346; (2) Unity, 347; (3) Incomprehensi- bility, 347; (4) Spirituality, 347; (5) Eternity, 347, 348; (6) Omnipre- sence, 348; (7) Omniscience, 349.
II. Moral Attributes: (1) Goodness, (2) Justice, (3) Holiness, 349-357. Objections to God's Goodness con- sidered, 357-365.
Augustine, St., on the Incomprehensi- bility of Deity, 347.
Authors on Liberty and Necessity, list of, 226.
Authorities referred to, list of, viii. Automatic movements defined, 25.
Bacon, Lord, on the Innate Sense of Duty, 76.
Barlow, Mr., on Instinct, 21. Baxter, Andrew, on the Immateriality of Mind, 379.
Beattie, Dr., his definition of Marriage, 299.
Being, Principles of, distinguished, 7. Benevolence, defined, 40; opinions of Bishop Butler on, 41; a universal obligation fully acknowledged by Christians, but not by Jews or the Heathen, 261; the Duties of Bene- volence threefold:-I. To increase Happiness-(a) By Conversation and Manner, 263; Civility, in what it consists, 263; Politeness superior to Civility, 263, 264; (b) by Active Kindness, 265; modes in which the duty may be exercised, 265—(c) by Liberality, 266; Active Kindness su- perior to Indolent Liberality, 266; Hospitality illustrated in Old Testa- ent History and among Christians,
alleviate Suffering-(a) By
Compassion and Pity, 267-(b) By Humanity and Charitableness, 268; modes of exercising the Duties of Bene- volence, 269; their obligation, 269.
III. To forgive Injuries-(a) By moderating Resentment, 270-(b) By pardoning the offence, 272. Bentham, Mr., on the Doctrine of Utility, 130; his use of the title of Deontology, 130; proposed substi- tute of Propriety for Utility, 137. Bias, one of the wise men of Greece, his saying on Friendship, 278. Biunde, on the Will, 184, 185. Blane, Sir Gilbert, on Instinct and Volition, 179, note.
Bockshammer, on the distinction of Desire and Will, 173.
Bonnet, M., on Instinct, 23.
Bossuet, M., his distinction between Erring and Ignorance, 5; between Freedom and Will, 193. Bougeant, Father, on Instinct, 23. Brodie, Sir B., on the natural sense of a Deity, 341.
Brougham, Lord, on Geology, 344; on
the Immateriality of the Soul, 380. Brown, Dr., on Appetites, 27; on Pas- sion, 34; on Sympathy, 41; on Habit and Association, 57; his views on the Foundation of Virtue, 148.
Sir Thomas, on the Glory of God in Creation, 146. Browne, Dr., on the Moral Sense, 88. Burlamaqui, M., on the Moral Sense, 86. Bushman, Dr., on Instinct, 21. Butler, Bishop, on Resentment, 38; on the Office of Conscience, 109, 330; his theory of Virtue, 125, 126; on Acts designated as Right without reference to their Utility, 139; on the Supre- macy of Conscience, 161; on Con- sciousness of Moral Liberty in Man, 197; on Love of our Neighbour, 262; on Compassion, 269; on the Existence of God, 328; on the Im- materiality of Mind, 373; on the Immortality of the Soul, 391.
Calisthenics, for rendering bodily move- ments easy and graceful, 239. Candour, in what it consists, 285, 286.
of MM. Burlamaqui and Thurot and Bishop Warburton, 86, 87; Mr. Hume's advocacy of the Sentimental Theory, 88; coincidence of Dr. Brown's views, 88; summary of the views of modern philosophers, 89; case put by Paley, 89; conscience strengthened by exercise, 90.
II. Intellectual Theory, 91; the converse of the Sentimental; position of Dr. Cudworth; opinions of Drs. Hutcheson and Clarke and Mr. Wool- aston, 92; analysis of Dr. R. Price, 92, 93, and of Dr. Reid, 94; view of Mr. Stewart, 95; Mr. Hume's statement, 96; classification of the opinions of the advocates of the In- tellectual Theory, 96; an argument for the existence of God, 330.
Determination of the phenomena in the exercise of the Moral Faculty, 96; statements of Drs. Reid and Price and Mr. Stewart, 97; elements constituting the Moral Faculty in Man, 98; admission and statements of Mr. Hume, 99, 100; Sir J. Mac- kintosh's objection to the Intellectual Theory, 101, 102, 104; Kant, on the Causality of Reason, 103.
Conscience regarded as an original and separate power of the mind by the advocates of the Moral Sense, 105; doctrine of the identity of Reason and Conscience, 106; Bishop Butler's definition, 106; assertion of the supremacy of conscience, 107, 108; Duties in regard to it, 108; derives its authority from a lawgiver superior to itself, 109; Bishop But- ler's statement, 109; summary of the argument, taking the Intellectual Theory as the true one, 109, 110. Constancy. See Restitution. Contract, rights of, 283.
Contracts, in what they originate, 293; how far binding, 293. Country, Affections of, 43. Courage, defined and illustrated, 256. Cousin, M., on the Free Agency of Man, 205.
Cowardice, defined, 256. Churlishness, defined, 267.
Civility, distinguished from Politeness, 263; not confined to rank, 263.
Clarke, Dr., on the Intellectual Theory of the Moral Faculty, 92; on the Government of God, 113; on the nature of Virtue, 114; on the Su- premacy of Conscience, 161; on Moral Liberty, 196, 197; on the Exis- tence of God, 326-328.
Crombie, on Natural Theology, 336; on Death as the portal to higher Happiness in Man, 392.
Cudworth, Dr., on the Intellectual Theory of the Moral Faculty, 91; on the nature of Virtue, 114; on the Existence of God, 329. Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough, his theory of Virtue, 119. Custom. See Habit.
Cuvier, M., on the completeness of organised beings, 336.
D'Alembert, M., on the Consciousness of Moral Liberty in Man, 197. Davy, Sir H., on the Immaterialty of Mind, 371.
Darwin, Dr. E., on Instinct, 22. Death, objection that its existence is incompatible with the Goodness of God, considered, 361-365.
De Bonald, M., his definition of Man, 233.
Decency, meaning of the term, 239; its obligation on all, 240. Deontology, title of Mr. Bentham's system of morality, 130. Deontologist, the, defined, 132. Dependence, how distinguished, 7. Descartes, on the Existence of God, 326. Design, evidences of, proof of the
existence of a First Cause, 322 et seq. Desire, sometimes a blind impulse, 16; classified, 17; difference from Appe- tite, 30; of Knowledge, 31; of Society, 32; of Esteem, 32, 33; of Power and Superiority, 33; charac- teristic of imperfect beings, 33; Primary Desires, how characterised, 34; Nemesius, on, 38, note; Facti- tious and Secondary Desires, how formed, 60, 61; different from Will, 168-73.
tion, defined, 43, 64; classified, dependence on bodily constitu-
tion, 44; controlled by Primary Desires, 44; differs with individuals, in man as in the inferior animals, 44; definition of Dr. Reid, 44, note. Dodwell, Mr., on the Immortality of the Soul, 381, note.
Dreams, a proof of the Immateriality of the Mind, 377, 378.
Dryden, on the Divine Government, 139.
Duty, Sense of. See Guides of Human Action.
Duties incumbent on Man, classified, 229; defect of the designation "Car- dinal" Virtues, 229; St. Ambrose the first to employ the epithet, 229, note; Kant's classification, 229, 230; duties arising from man's threefold relation to himself as an individual (Sobriety); to his fellow men (Right- eousness); to his Creator, Governor, and Judge (Godliness), 230. Dwight, Dr., on the doctrine of Expe- diency, 137, 142, 144.
Education, Duties of Parents in regard to, 313; distinguished as Intellectual, Moral, and Religious, 313, 314. Edwards, Jonathan, his theory of Vir- tue, 121; definition of Motives, 175; on the Freedom of Will, 194; argu- ment against its self-determining power, 210; objection that Liberty in Man is incompatible with Fore- knowledge in God, 217; on contin- gency in events as inconsistent with Foreknowledge in God, 221. Emotions, defined, 28; Dr. Cogan and
Lord Kames on, 28, 29; how differ- ing from Sensation and Cognition, 29; not in themselves Springs of Action, 29; relation to Intellect, 29; how manifested, 29; tend to qui- escence rather than activity, 29; Mackintosh's distinction, 29, note. Emulation, Dr. Reid on, 38.
End, defined, 2; how distinguished, 2. Epicrisis, an office of Conscience, 153. Equanimity, distinguished from Magra- nimity, 255.
Equivocation, defined, 287. Error, defined, 5.
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