JB_161a.Spencers.xml

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

JB_139_052.xml

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1817 Sept. 16

Not Paul

§. 1. I. In All other pursuits he beheld rivals to that he was preaching: the greater the pleasure, the more formidable the rivality. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8

§. 2 II. Notion he found prevalent - heaven not to be purchased but by sacrifice: the more valuable the sacrifice, the surer the purchase. 9. 10. 11. 12.

§. 3. Paul’s arguments in support of asceticism - their absurdity. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24

§. 4. Paul is led into repugnancy to Jesus by his anxiety to obtain married female converts. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.

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1817 Oct. 25

§. 1. A Quasi-Miracle or rather a Quasi-miraculous account, what. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 6.

§. 2. The Acts quasi-miracles were of his own making. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

§. 3. Instrument for the fabrication of a quasi-miracle - spiritual double entendre hence a verbal miracle 16. 31.

§. 4. Visions - their essential unfitness to serve as a support of a religion. 17. 18

§. 5. Of Paul’s edition of Jesus’s religion, visions the sole support: his own he could not have ventured upon such a support, without hanging it on upon Jesus’s. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23

§. 6. A Vision and Quasi-Vision. 26. 38. 39. 40

§. 7. A Trance, what: it affords opportunity for a Vision. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53

 Look over the Acts miracles and class them into

1 Quasi-miracles made by a double entendre and

2. Natural occurrences left to be made into supernatural by inference

§. 8. Cluster of Miracles unparticularized: 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

§. 9. Quasi-Miracles, Visions, Quasi-Visions, and Cluster of unparticularized Miracles their advantages: 24. 25. 26. 28. 29. 60. 61.

§. 10 Modern Quasi-Miracles, their abundance. 34 35. 36. 37. 51.

§. 11. Difference in respect of probative force between a miracle perceived and d o read of. 55, 56. 57. 58. 59