BODLEIN

1 0 OCT 1930

KIBRARY

C. WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK.

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CONTENTS.

VOLUME I.

LIFE OF YOUNG, by the Rev. J. Mitford

THE COMPLAINT; OR, NIGHT THOUGHTS.

Night I. ON LIfe, Death, and IMMORTALITY

II. ON TIME, Death, and FRIENDSHIP

III. NARCISSA...

IV. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH

V. THE RELAPSE

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VI. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED, Part I.......... 109

VII. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED, Part II.

In the Sixth Night arguments were drawn, from

Nature, in proof of immortality: here, others are

drawn from Man: from his discontent, p. 138; from

his passions and powers, 139; from the gradual growth

of reason, 140; from his fear of death, 140; from

the nature of hope, 141; and of virtue, 142, &c.;

from knowledge, and love, as being the most essen-

tial properties of the soul, 145; from the order of

creation, 146, &c.; from the nature of ambition, 148,

&c. Avarice, 151; pleasure, 152. A digression on

the grandeur of the passions, 153, &c. Immortality

alone renders our present state intelligible, 154. An

objection from the stoics' disbelief of immortality

answered, 155. Endless questions unresolvable, but

on supposition of our immortality, 156. The natural,

most melancholy, and pathetic complaint of a worthy

man, under the persuasion of no futurity, 157, &c.

The gross absurdities and horrors of annihilation urged

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home on Lorenzo, 163, &c. The soul's vast import-

ance, 167, &c.; from whence it arises, 170, &c. The

difficulty of being an infidel, 171; the infamy, 172;

the cause, 173; and the character, 173, of an infidel

state. What true free-thinking is, 174; the neces-

sary punishment of the false, 175. Man's ruin is

from himself, 176. An infidel accuses himself of guilt

and hypocrisy; and that of the worst sort, 177. His

obligation to Christians, 177. What danger he incurs

by virtue, 178. Vice recommended to him, 178. His

high pretences to virtue, and benevolence, exploded,

The conclusion, on the nature of faith, 180.

Reason, 180; and Hope, 181; with an apology for

this attempt, 181.

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VIII. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY; OR, THE MAN OF

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THE WORLD ANSWERED

IX. THE CONSOLATION

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