Chapter I: Front Matter

The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

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THE

WORKS

OF THE

Rev. JOHN WESLEY, M.A.

Late Fellow of _Lincoln-College_, OXFORD.

VOLUME VI.

BRISTOL:

Printed by WILLIAM PINE, in _Wine-Street_.

MDCCLXXII.

THE
CONTENTS
Of the SIXTH VOLUME.

An extract from Mr. LAW’s _Serious Call_ to a _Holy Life_.

CHAPTER XVIII.

_Recommending devotion at three o’clock, called in scripture the
|ninth hour| of the day. The subject of prayer at this hour
may be |resignation| to the divine pleasure. The nature and
duty of conformity to the will of God in all our actions and
designs._

CHAPTER XIX.

_Of the excellency and greatness of a devout spirit._

An Extract from Mr. LAW’s Later Works.

An extract from the case of reason, or natural religion, fairly
and fully stated. In answer to a book, entitled _Christianity
as Old as the Creation_.

_The introduction, shewing the state of the controversy._

CHAPTER I.

_Enquiring, whether there be any thing in the |nature| and
|condition| of man, to |oblige| him to think, that he is not
to admit of any doctrines or institutions, as revealed from
God, but such as his own reason can prove to be necessary from
the nature of things._

CHAPTER II.

_Shewing from the |relation between God and man, that human
reason cannot be a competent judge of the |fitness| and
|reasonableness| of God’s proceedings with mankind, either
as to the |time|, or |matter|, or |manner| of an external
revelation_.

CHAPTER III.

_Shewing how far human reason is able to judge of the
reasonableness, truth, and certainty of divine revelation._

CHAPTER IV.

_Of the state and nature of reason, as it is in man; and how its
perfection in matters of religion is to be known._

CHAPTER V.

_Shewing that all the |mutability| of our tempers, the
|disorders| of our passions, the |corruption| of our
hearts, all the |reveries| of the imagination, all the
|contradictions| and |absurdities| that are to be found in
human life, and human opinions, are in effect the mutability,
disorders, corruption, and absurdities of |human reason|._

An extract from Mr. LAW’s Serious Answer to Dr. ♦Trapp’s four
sermons, on the sin, folly, and danger of being Righteous
overmuch.

Some animadversions upon Dr. ♦Trapp’s late reply.

♦ “Trap’s” replaced with “Trapp’s”

A short but sufficient confutation of Bishop Warburton’s
projected defence (as he calls it) of Christianity, in his
divine legation of Moses in a letter to the Right Reverend the
Lord Bishop of London.

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An Extract from Mr. LAW’s
SERIOUS CALL
TO A HOLY LIFE.