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Not Paul. Plan as now proposed of the Book on the subject of Doctrine
Heads now proposed — To be cast into Chapters and Sections, when the matter is written out, according to the space occupied.
1. Paul’s religious doctrines determined by his worldly scheme:a 1. his doctrines or ordinances. 2. his primum mobile a means of securing acceptance and ordinances
a Object of the doctrine 1. Exclusion of rival pursuits 2. Awe— striking i.e. by terror forcing men to observances
2. Paul’s primum mobile faith
3. Faith how far subservient to true religion viz. only as well applied, ill applied it is subservient to false religion exclusive to true: also to mental imbecillity and moral deformity.
3. The faith inculcated by Paul was faith in himself not in Jesus
See Ch. Independence avowed
4 Object correspondent to the magnification of faith depretiation of works i.e. Jewish works
5. The faith possessed by the percipient witnesses of Jesus’s acts and saying the only real faith in Jesus: every thing else that is called faith in Jesus is faith in some one else.
7. More Doctrines peculiar to Paul in contradistinction to Jesus 1. Asceticism 2. Mysticism. the division or classification simply announced
1 Temporal given as 1. Money. 2. respect. 3. obedience 4 spiritual
8 Asceticism —what — its divisions & its mischievousness in both cases
9. Asceticism — no where inculcated by Jesus — virtually condemned by his practice
10. Asceticism — Paul’s motives for the inculcating of it 1. Rival pursuits
11. II. Mysticism — what Paul’s objects in the inculcation of it: 1. Awe— striking, and thence helping forward and enforcing their faith in himself. 2. by obscurity, forcing them to himself for interpretation and guidance.
By this means even Astrologers, who could not pretend to any share in the determination of men’s fortunes by determination of the course of the stars or otherwise have placed men in their dependence.
12. Instances Passages in which Paul inculcates asceticism collected
13. Passages in which he inculcates real morality prove nothing in his favour: in these he was but a copyist of common feeling and opinion, as the words employed coupled with their interpretation and dyslogistic import shew
14. Passages in which he inculcates real morality collected.
15. Passages in which he inculcates mysticism collected.
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Title: [[Some marginal summary paras. on this folio]Description: [Some marginal summary paras. on this folio. This transcript is the material which is not marginal summary paras.] 1817 Sept. 14 Not Paul §. 1. Paul’s doctrines the result of his worldly scheme: 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25 §. 2 Faith in him his primum mobile. 1. 2. 3. 4 5. 6. 26. 31. §. 3. Faith, how far conducive to true religion 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 32 - good, only in so far as well as applied: in the abstract, conducive to false religion. Add as well as to folly and improbity. §. 4 Of the faith inculcated by Paul, verbal object Jesus’s doctrines: real, his own. 13. 40. 41. §. 5 God’s attributes - which of them it suited his purpose to hold up particularly to view. 14 §. 5. Observances - what it suited his purpose most strenuously to inculcate. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. See Ch | | Paul’s asceticism causes of it. §. 7. Paul’s inducements for preaching in Jesus’s name, and not in his own 27. 28. 29. 30. §. 8. Paul’s inducements depretiating works: viz. Jewish works 33. 40. §. 9. The works depretiated by him were Jewish works only not moral ones. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40
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Title: [[Around folios 1 to 19] Defence of]Description: [Around folios 1 to 19] Defence of Economy - II. ag t I. Burke Ch. 4 Concerning party men and their principles. [Around folios 1 to 13] Sextus for B. [Around folios 20 to 41] Ch. 9. Paul’s Style. I. Argument. §. 1. For judging of aptitude of style in antient discourses the existing state of things is no improper object of reference. What would be unapt now was unapt then. §. 2. Forms of inaptitude in style - Forms of intellectual weakness in argumentation: 1. Obscurity; - in its highest degree, Nonsensicalness: 2 Irrelevancy in argumentation; 3. Irrelevancy in reference - demonstration ex auctoritate ill conducted; 4. Desultoriness §. 3. By obscurity, inspiration may be disproved: and in Paul’s case, is. §. 4. Nonsense - its abundance in Paul’s discourses. §. 5. Paul’s demonstrations ex auctoritate - their irrelevancy. [verso] Ch. 8 2 o Paul’s Style. [Around folios 42 to 57] Ch. 6 I. Argument Paul’s Style §. Different forms of Nonsense observable in the discourses of S t Paul [Around folios 58 to 68] I. Argument 2 1 Style and Character [Around folios 69 to 85] I. Argument Ch Paul’s Character §. 1. All things to all men. §. 2. Falsified predictions. [Around folios 86 to 128] I. Argument Ch. 6 Of Quasi-Miracles, Visions, Quasi-Visions and Trances. [Around folios 133 to 140] I. Argument. Ch. 7 Natural causes of Paul’s Success. §. 1. Energy - how operating as a pledge of security it produces persuasion in favour of any discourse /doctrine/ howsoever absurd. §. 2. Nonsense - its advantage - it is refutation proof. §. 3. The success of a religion is no proof of its verity. §. 4. The more absurd a religion, the stronger the attachment to it. [Full folio wrapper around folios 141 to 214] [front cover] III Style. Character. III. Doctrine (exclusive of Asceticism. [spine] 1818. Not Paul. Style Character and Doctrine not concerning Asceticism. [Around folios 141 to 162] III. Doctrine Ch Paul’s Doctrines §. 1. Plan of this Chapter §. 2. Paul’s doctrine avowedly independent of that delivered to us as Jesus’s §. 2. Real object and design of Paul’s doctrines - his temporal advancement. §. 3. Doctrines more immediately subservient to that end 1. Magnification of faith: viz in the sense inculcated by him. §. 4. — 2. Depreciation of works: viz. in that Mosaic sense in which they were rivals to faith as above in the struggle for salvation §. 5. Doctrines less immediately and forcibly subservient: 1. Mysticism. 2. Asceticism [Around folios 163 to 172] Not Paul III. Doctrine § Mysticism on the commemoration of the death of Jesus. [verso] Not Paul Ch. Conclusion. [Around folios 173 to 186] III. Doctrine. Ch. III. Faith - its alledged necessity to salvation - alledged duty of possessing it. [Around folios 187 to 199] Ch. 9. Paul’s Doctrine Ch. or §. Causes of Paul’s asceticism §. 1. Cause I. In all other pursuits he beheld rivals to that he preached: the greater the pleasure, the more formidable the rivalry §. 2. II Cause II. Notion he found prevalent - heaven not to be purchased but by sacrifices: the greater the sacrifice, the surer the purchase. §. 3. Paul’s arguments in support of asceticism - their absurdity. §. 4. By his anxiety to obtain female married converts, Paul is led into repugnancy to Jesus [Around folio 208] III. Doctrine. excepting Asceticism. [Around folios 209 to 211] Not Paul III Doctrine §. 1. Faith - Paul’s meaning by it. Faith in him, or to his use [Around folios 212 to 214] III. Doctrine. Ch. 10 Ch. 10 Mischievous Doctrines, deduced from Paul but unwarrantably
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Title: [1817 Oct. 19 Notes at top of page.]Description: 1817 Oct. 19 Notes at top of page. Not Paul Ch. Doctrines 1 §. 1. Causes of this work §. 1. Supposed Mischievousness of Paul’s doctrines―the exposure of it the final cause of this work / Paul’s peculiar doctrines―their mischievousness / But for the doctrine, the false and pernicious / mischievous / doctrine of which the writings of Paul have been and continue to be the source, his imposture if such it be would not have been worth detecting: at any rate the detection of it would not have employed / given employment to / the hand of the author of these pages. Under one or other of two appellatives / three heads / may these mischievous doctrines be comprized viz. mysticism and asceticism: and faith: of these two important appellatives neither is by any means new to English eyes or ears: but of the importance of them that is of the ideas respectively capable of being brought to view by them respectively in a word the mischievous effects of them in respect of genuine morality and human happiness men seem not as yet to have been sufficiently aware. By mysticism is here meant the habit and pretension of teaching to men as if by authority that which it is impossible for man to learn, and by teaching not simply the offer of conveying the information, but the accompanying that offer with an intimation that salvation depends upon the acceptance given to it: in other words / that is / that in the instance of every man by whom the opinion thus delivered is not / fails of being / maintained, punishment at the hands of the Almighty punishment in some unknown quantity or other up to infinite will be the consequence of such failure.
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