Qu. Soct 5. 6. 7. How are the affections divided? How are these two classes distinguished? What term is used as synonymous wth affection? 8. 344. What is anger? 9. What modifications of it are mentioned? 10. 345. By what is anger occasioned? 11. Show that it is instinctive, and illustrate. 12. 346. The design of the Creator in implanting this principle in man? Is instinctive resentment morally wrong? 13. 14. The basis of morality? 15. 347. How may we impart to instinctive resentment the character of ao 16. 17 18. 19 20. 21. 22. 348. 23. 24. 25. 26. 349. 27. 28. 29. 30. countability? The proper occasion of resentment? The final cause of instinctive resentment? When is resentment right, and when wrong? What is remarked of the pain it occasions? The first consideration calculated to check it? The third? The fourth? In what is the Christian code distinguished from every other? 31. 350. How does peevishness differ from anger? 32. To what are both compared? 33. 351. What is envy, and what is remarked of it? What are some of the different kinds of it? 6. 356. The two-fold action by which it is characterized? Qu. Sect. 13. 358. Mention a fact illustrative of this. 14. 359. How does filial affection differ from parental? 15. Show the wisdom of the Creator in this. 16. 360. The first proof that filial affection is implanted? Illustrate this remark. 17. 18. 19. 20. The second proof of this fact? The penalty which nature has attached to a want of filial affection 1 What other considerations might be adduced in evidence of the same fact? 21. 361, An illustration of filial affection. 22. An illustration of parental love. 23. 362. How has fraternal affection been accounted for? 24. What one fact shows that this explanation is an insufficient one? 25. 363. Show the wisdom of the Creator as manifested in the domestic af fections. 26. 27, 29. What strange notion of Plato is mentioned? Show that the reverse is the fact. 28. 364. Do these affections possess a moral character? The common opinion, and the reasons for it? Show the error of it, and illustrate. 30. 31. 365. When are these affections vicious, and when virtuous? 32. 366. What is essential to the highest and most ennobling form of benev. olence? 33. 34. 25 In what cases is it wrong to indulge a benevolent feeling toward an individual? Give an account of Bishop Bartholomew las Casas. How did his benevolence defeat its own intention? 36. 367. Is man by nature indifferent to the welfare of others? Is he naturally an enemy to his brother man? 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. What is philanthropy? What principle checks its exercise? How is it shown to be natural? 42. 368. A second argument in favor of this truth? Are such institutions confined to Christian countries ? 48. 370. A fourth proof of this fact? The manifest intention of nature on this subject? Is patriotism a secondary or an original affection. Show that there is no contrariety between patriotism and philan thropy. Repeat the remark of Cowper. 55. 372 Of what is friendship a modification? 56 57. 58. How does it resemble the other benevolent affections? Is similarity of character requisite as the basis of friendship? 59 373. How does pity differ from the other benevolent affections? The great advantage of its being so? When is its exercise right, and vice versa ? and illustrate. 66. 375. How is gratitude distinguished from the other benevolent affections? Qu Sect. CHAPTER VII. 1. 376. What principle does the author suppose was originally implanted 2. in man? The first argument in favor of this? 3. 377. The second argument, drawn from the Scriptures? 4. What is meant by man's being created in the image of God? and the argument from this? 5. 378. The third argument from texts of Scripture? 6. The fourth argument from the new birth? 7. 379. What fact is taught us by both philosophy and revelation? What facts prove that man is a fallen being? 8, 9 10. 11, 380. 12. 381 13 What principle should stand first in rank of those by which man is governed? How would this regulate all the others? How is human depravity accounted for? Show how the obliteration of the principle of love to God would lead CHAPTER VIII. 1. 382. What simple fact does the term habit express ? 2. 383. What are appetitive habits? 3. How are such habits acquired? 4. 384. What are propensive habits? and illustrate. 5. 385. To what other affections does it apply? and illustrate. 6. 386. What are secondary principles of action? 1. 387. How has the mird Loon divided? The place of the emotions? 3. 4. Through what departments must we pass to arrive at the will from the emotions? Prove from Scripture the existence of conscience. 5. 388. Into what do the natural sensibilities resolve themselves? Into what the moral? 6. 7. 8. Why might it be supposed this subject would be dispatched in a few words? Why is it not? 9. 389. How does the moral nature develop itself? 10. 11. 12. 13 14. How many kinds of moral emotions are there? By what names are they known? What is implied in calling them original feelings? How are they known to exist? 15. 390 What position do moral emotions occupy with respect to acts of the intellect? 16. 17 18. What other emotions occupy the same place? By what are the moral emotions immediately followed? What is implied in our being under obligations to do, or not to do any particular act? Qu. Sect. 19. 391. In what cases are the moral emotions liable to change? 20. The necessity of this? 21. 392. The appropriate objects of moral approval, etc.? 22. 23. What are not such objects? With what is duty commensurate? CHAPTER II. 1. 393. With what have some confounded conscience? 2. Why is this a natural mistake? 3. 394. What is reasoning? 4. 5, The distinction between the reasoning power and the moral nature i 6. 395. Illustrate this truth. 7. 396. Is conscience susceptible of being educated? 9. 397. Can a person who has acted conscientiously be considered guilty in so acting? 1. 398. Into what two classes of feeling does conscience resolve itself! 2. 399. How do we ascertain the existence of feelings of moral obligation? 4. 400. In what other way, also, do we ascertain their existence? 6. 401. In what other way still is it shown? 7. Mention some of the terms that prove their existence. 8. 402. What would be the state of society without this part of our constitution? 9. 403. The first characteristic mark of these feelings? 10. 404. The second mark, etc.? and illustrate. 11. 405. The third mark, etc.? 12. 13. What is meant by the terms enforcement, constraint, compulsion, as applied to this feeling? The apostle's meaning in the passage, "The love of Christ constrain eth me?" 14. 406. The first reason assigned for not classing feelings of obligation with What is said, in this connection, of moral emotions? 18. 408. A third reason? and illustrate. 19. What language shows the prevalence of the common belief on this subject? 20. 409. The first reason why feelings of moral obligation are not classed How do the mere moral emotions operate on the will? Why have brute animals no moral character? 1 411 What two kinds of uniformity are there in the decisions of our moral nature? 2. 3. The law on which uniformity in principle is founded? Are the dictates of unperverted conscience the same every where? 4. 412. What objections have been urged against the doctrine of a connat. ural conscience? 5. 6. 7 What must be shown in order to meet this objection? The first remark on this subject? To what is conscience compared? and point out the resemblance. 8413. The first reason assigned for the diversities of the decisions of con. 9. science? Illustrate this truth. 10. 414. The second reason? and illustrate. 11. 12. How is the thievishness of the Sandwich Islanders accounted for ? 13. 415. The third reason? and illustrate. 14. What is said of the Rev. John Newton? 15. 416. How is persecution for religious opinions accounted for? 16. 417. The fourth reason, etc.? and illustrate. 17. 418. The last reason for these diversities? and illustrate. CHAPTER V. 1. 419. What is said of the importance of moral education? Why has it been so much neglected? 2. 3. 420. What suggestion has been made on this subject? 4. 5. Why is it entitled to no weight? What is necessary in order to prevent the contamination of vico? 6. 421. What facts show the early development of the intellect? 7. 8. How early does the moral nature begin to develop ? At what age is the moral character sometimes formed? 9. 422. What discouragement often attends our efforts to improve the moral character of the young? 10. 11. Why should we not be discouraged? What incident is mentioned illustrative of this subject? 12. 423. Why should we take pains to introduce into the mind correct spec 13. 14 15 424. 16 17 18 ulative opinions? Illustrate the great importance of such opinions. What is said of the doctrine that "Sincerity is every sing?" What is essential to sound moral education? The office of conscience? How does conscience regard a want of love to the divine character 1 PART III CHAPTER I. 1 425. The subject of this chapter? 2. 426. What is insanity? 3. May the mind be disordered without being insane? 4. 427. The consequence of disordered appetites? |