19 Aug 1815

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Ch. Resources

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§. 1. Prolegomena

Defences and principles and phrases and arguments

1. question-begging principle

2. spiritual sense applied to 1. Kingdom

2. Parables &c at large

3. hardness of heart

4. Discredit these, so must you all histories.

5. Presumptuous to penetrate mysteries.

6. Figurative language its importance, preferred to plain

7. Exclusion of all familiar modes of designation

 No possibility of preserving in the account given of the Resources, the order in which these topics are here presented.

Ch. Believer’s resources or defences

Ch. Principles and Phrases and Arguments employed by Believers, to serve as defences against informative and disprobative evidences and observations.

§. 2 Distinction between the temporal sense

§. 2 Phrase spiritual time: distinction between the spiritual sense of a discourse on the one hand and the temporal or carnal sense on the other.

§. 1. Persons whose the resources are—Jesus—his historians—their believers. Resources, what—Principles—phrases—arguments.

Jesus himself—his historians—their believers—in his time and in the present and other relatively modern times. Between these several descriptions of or sets of persons, it will on this occasion be at all times for clearness of conception be necessary, but frequently far from easy to bear in mind or so much as to mark out the distinction.

Principles or modes or courses of proceeding—phrases—arguments—between these three resources, for clearness of conception it may also be of use that the distinction should be borne in mind, for that purpose the ideas will be found of use, though when applied to practice the distinction may not in every instance be so clear as might be wished.